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Film 2

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"Thomas shook his head, closed his eyes, but no stories came to him, no words or music. He just wanted to go home, to lie in his bed and let his dreams tell his stories for him."
"This is What It Means to Say Phoenix Arizona," Sherman Alexie
"Once, he jumped off the roof of the tribal school and flapped his arms like a crazy eagle. And he flew. For a second, he hovered, suspended above all the other Indian boys who were too smart or too scared to jump."
"This is What It Means to Say Phoenix Arizona," Sherman Alexie
"Victor waved his arms to let Thomas know that the deal was good. It was a fair trade, and that was all Victor had ever wanted from his whole life. So Victor drove his father's pickup toward home while Thomas went into his house, closed the door behind him, and heard a new story come to him in the silence afterwards."
"This is What It Means to Say Phoenix Arizona," Sherman Alexie
Character 1: "Hey, Victor! I'm sorry 'bout your dad."
Character 2: "How'd you hear about it?"
Character 1: "I heard it on the wind. I heard it from the birds. I felt it in the sunlight. And your mom was just in here cryin'."
Smoke Signals, Chris Eyre
Character 1: "You guys got your passports?"
Character 2: "Passports?"
Character 1: "Yeah, you're leavin' the rez and going into a whole different country, cousin."
Smoke Signals, Chris Eyre
Character 1: "Good morning, this is Randy Peone on KREZ radio, the voice of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation. And it's time for the morning traffic report on this rainy Bicentennial Fourth of July. Let's go out to Lester Fallsapart in the KREZ traffic van broken down at the crossroads."
Character 2: "Big truck just went by...now it's gone."
Character 1: "Well, there you go folks. Looks like another busy morning."
Smoke Signals, Chris Eyre
Character 1: "God, it's so pathetic."
Character 2: "Could they possibly be more clueless!? I'm so happy we're here!"
Ghost World, Daniel Clowes (Graphic Novel)
Character 1: "He didn't stick around for very long...She's only twenty-five minutes late..."
Character 2: "He figured it out."
Ghost World, Daniel Clowes (Graphic Novel)
Character 1: "So Josh, tell us about your political beliefs."
Character 2: "What?"
Character 1: "The last time we came here, Becky and I were discussing political issues..."
Character 2: "I'm not sure I believe you."
Ghost World, Daniel Clowes (Graphic Novel)
Character 1: "This is so bad it's almost good."
Character 2: "This is so bad it's gone past good and back to bad again."
Ghost World, Terry Zwigoff (film)
Character 1: "You know what my number one fantasy used to be?"
Character 2: "What?"
Character 1: "I used to think about one day, just not telling anyone, and going off to some random place. And I'd just...disappear. And they'd never see me again. Did you ever think about stuff like that?"
Character 2: "I guess I probably did when I was your age."
Ghost World, Terry Zwigoff (film)
Character 1: "So, was that your boyfriend?"
Character 2: "Josh? He's nobody's boyfriend. He's just this guy that Becky and I like to torture."
Ghost World, Terry Zwigoff (film)
"Her mother, who noticed everything and knew everything and who hadn't much reason any longer to look at her own face, always scolded Connie about it. 'Stop gawking at yourself, who are you? You think you're so pretty?' she would say."
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", Joyce Carol Oates
"One night in midsummer they ran across, breathless with daring, and right away someone leaned out a car window and invited them over, but it was just a boy from high school they didn't like. It made them feel good to be able to ignore him."
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", Joyce Carol Oates
"He laughed as if she had said something funny. He slapped his thighs. He was standing in a strange way, leaning back against the car as if he were balancing himself. He wasn't tall, only an inch or so taller than she would be if she came down to him."
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", Joyce Carol Oates
Character 1: "A penny."
Character 2: "For what?"
Character 1: "You know what."
Character 2: "For my thoughts? They're not worth it."
Smooth Talk, Joyce Chopra
Character 1: "How are you?"
Character 2: "You scared me."Character 1: "How you doin'?"
Character 2: "Do I know you?"
Character 1: "I—I'm Jeff."
Character 2: "Hey, Jeff. I thought you didn't notice me."
Character 1: "Notice you? Yeah, I noticed you. Cutest girl in the whole freshmen class."
Smooth Talk, Joyce Chopra
Character 1: "Hey, do I know you?"
Character 2: "Hey. You're cute. What's the matter, don't you believe me or what?
Character 1: "Look, I really don't know who you are."
Smooth Talk, Joyce Chopra
A living writer who focuses on the Native American dilemma in his fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. His characters deal with issues of identity and lost tradition as their Native American heritage is often at odds with American history and experience. His famous works include Reservation Blues, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, and Indian Killer.
Sherman Alexie
This artist was born in 1969 in Portland, Oregon, and is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. He is an American film director and producer who as of 2012 is chairman of the film department at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Known for Smoke Signals, Edge of America, and Skins.
Chris Eyre:
Born in Chicago, IL, on April 14, 1961. He attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, from which he graduated with a BFA degree in 1984. He began his career as an "alternative" cartoonist in 1985 with the short-lived comic book series Lloyd Llewellyn. In 2001, a film adaptation of one of his works earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Daniel Clowes
Born in Appleton, Wisconsin, this artist held several jobs before making his breakthrough feature: the documentary Crumb in 1994. His previous jobs included musician, shipping clerk, printer and welfare office worker. Even with the enormous success of Crumb, he refused to sell out to Hollywood. His aversion to corporate commercialism is a well-known trademark. He turned down many more commercial projects while he struggled for five years to make a feature film out of an underground comic strip by a well-known cartoonist and comic-book writer.
Terry Zwigoff
A writer of well over 100 books. Born on June 16, 1938, in Lockport, New York. She has taught at Princeton University since 1978. Her work explores everything from women's issues in the 20th and 21st centuries to circumstances of the horrifying and supernatural. She is the winner of numerous awards including the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction and the National Book Award for her novel them.
Joyce Carol Oates
An American director and writer of feature films and television. This artist graduated from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. She was married to American stage and screenwriter Tom Cole until he died on February 23, 2009. Her first narrative feature-length film in 1985 won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director and Grand Jury Prize at the 1985 Sundance Film Festival.
Joyce Chopra
A view in which the frame is not level; either the right or left side is lower than the other, causing objects in the scene to appear slanted out of an upright position.
Canted Framing
A framing in which the scale of the object shown is very small; a building, landscape, or crowd of people will fill the screen.
Extreme Long Shot
A framing in which the scale of the object shown is small; a standing human figure would appear nearly the height of the screen.
Long Shot
A framing at a distance that makes an object about 4 or 5 feet high appear to fill most of the screen vertically.
Medium Long Shot
A framing in which the scale of the object shown is of moderate size; a human figure seen from the waist up would fill most of the screen.
Medium Shot
A framing in which the scale of the object shown is fairly large; a human figure seen from the chest up would fill most of the screen.
Medium Close-Up
A framing in which the scale of the object shown is relatively large; most commonly, a person's head seen from the neck up, or an object of a comparable size that fills most of the screen.
Close-up
A framing in which the scale of the object shown is very large; most commonly, a small object or part of the body.
Extreme Close-up
A camera movement with the camera body turning to the right or left. On the screen, it produces a mobile framing that scans the space horizontally.
Pan
A camera movement with the camera body swiveling upward or downward on a stationary support. It produces a mobile framing that scans the space vertically.
Tilt
A mobile framing that travels through space forward, backward, or laterally.
Tracking Shot
A shot that continues for an unusually lengthy time before the transition to the next shot.
Long Take
In the finished film, an instantaneous change from one framing to another.
Cut
A shot that gradually disappears as the screen darkens. Occasionally, fade-outs brighten to pure white or to a color.
Fade-Out
A dark screen that gradually brightens as a shot appears.
Fade-In
A transition between two shots during which the first image gradually disappears while the second image gradually appears; for a moment, the two images blend in superimposition.
Dissolve
A transition between shots in which a line passes across the screen, eliminating one shot as it goes and replacing it with the next one.
Wipe
The continuity approach to editing dictates that the camera should stay on one side of the action to ensure consistent left-right spatial relations between elements from shot to shot.
180 Degree Technique
At the end of "This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona," what does one character agree to do for another character?
Victor agrees to listen to one of Thomas's stories.
In Smoke Signals how does the main character treat the gymnast on the bus?
Victor snaps at her and causes her to move from her seat.
In Smoke Signals, the police officer wants to know about what item in the characters' possession?
The container of Victor's father's ashes
In Ghost World (film), how does Enid get Seymour to come to the 50s diner?
She calls him pretending to be the woman he wrote to in the newspaper ad.
True or False: In Ghost World (graphic novel), Seymour realizes what the teens have done to him at the diner.
True
In Ghost World (film), from what job does Enid get fired?
Movie theatre concessions
In "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", what is Connie's father like?
He is hardly around and when he is, he doesn't really speak.
In Smooth Talk, Connie almost reconnects with her mother, for a moment, by doing what home maintenance activity?
Repainting the side of the house
How does the ending of "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" differ from Smooth Talk?
In Smooth Talk Connie returns from the ride with Arnold but in the story it ends with her leaving with him.
Who directed:
Smoke Signals
Chris Eyre
Who wrote:
"This is What It Means to Say Phoenix Arizona,"
Sherman Alexie
Who wrote:
Ghost World (Graphic Novel)
Daniel Clowes
Who directed:
Ghost World (film)
Terry Zwigoff
Who wrote:
"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
Joyce Carol Oates
Who directed:
Smooth Talk
Joyce Chopra
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