Film and Lit, 3/8/07

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Daisy was miraculously thus far unaware of the transformations that had happened over night to most of the guys on the island.

She hadn't had her coffee yet, after all.

"Right. So. Last time you guys looked at Poe. Some fine, creepy stuff there. All about death. This week, we're going to look at something a little bit similar. Films based not on written text, but on word-of-mouth. Specifically urban legends. I have two films I have examples from, and many, many more out there. What I want you guys to do, though, is to pick a legend, one you've heard or one from this list, and decide how you would adapt it for a film. What would you change, what would you leave the same? Why do you think these legends persist? What makes them so interesting? What are some themes that you think it'd be important to keep in the movie?"

[ooc: ocd is a-coming up. Meta any actual movie that gets discussed, but I think we're safe on the urban legends themselves, eh?]

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What's your favorite urban legend? How would you make a movie of it? Who would play your victim star?

All you boys who are now girls, what do you think of the fact that the victims are often women?

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She can give advice on shoes and make up, if nothing else. . . .

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I admit, I myself am curious about how Daisy would react to guys turning randomly into girls. . . .

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