Input?
I was thinking that I would focus on three (-ish) main aspects of the film: cars and trucks as symbols for women and men, cars as the mode for change within the film (physical movement, journey, etc.), and the car as a lens to compare scenes from the beginning of the film to the end.
Also, the poetry workshop was cancelled today. I was planning on going. Is there any other ways to get extra credit before the end of the year?
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This gets you back to the vehicle focus, but I don't know if it's saying anything new--from what you've already written.
So what might you say now that you've had a chance to re-watch vehicle-saturated scenes?
And that wraps up the extra credit for the semester. There have been almost 20 of extra credit chances. I sprinkle it throughout when the situation seems helpful to the class (library workshops, WC, etc) rather then find a way to plop them in at the end of the semester as a last-ditch effort.
I wasn't necessarily trying to plop it in at the end. Rather, I had been entirely planning on attending the poetry workshop and it was suddenly cancelled and I was looking for something else to replace it. I happened to have time this week to go, it wasn't a "last ditch effort."
I rewatched more of the film and formulated this thesis. I think it says something different about the film and also can incorporate some of the outline I completed yesterday:
The relationships between the various characters in the film Thelma and Louise, mainly the two females, J.D., Darryl, the “ass-hole” truck driver, and the investigator Hal Slocumb, and the various vehicles they either drive or are associated with reflect their relative positions within the film and, more universally, society as a whole. Simultaneously, most notably with Thelma and Louise, their relationship to the vehicles that surround them, reflect their evolution throughout the film.
Elizabeth--perhaps I chose my words poorly. I'm not intending to cast aspersions on your interest in the poetry workshop.
But the year is drawing to a close and I haven't seen any W1-friendly workshops that I can piggy-back on this class as extra credit.
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