Movie Appreciation: Week 3, Period 3 (Fri. 1/23)

[satedan-soldier.livejournal.com]

Upper body draped over the top of a podium next to the large Danger Shop-created auditorium screen, Ronon waited for the film class to file in and take their seats. "Hope you had fun navigating the dark. Might've prepared you a little for class. Everybody likes swords right?" He expected some nodding from the group. "Today's movie is Blind Fury, about a blind guy who's pissed off and takes out bad guys with his cane. It's also a samurai sword."

Ronon cued the lights to dim before the most interesting of the interesting battle scenes from the movie played on the big screen. "Yeah, the kid's annoying as hell, but he offers up something I guess. Your task this week: Take a survey. Find out from three people what they'd be best at if they went blind and why. You can do it in class now or before next week's class. Just be prepared to report back." Oh the irony of Ronon asking for reports. "Get to work."

[ooc: can you guess the theme of the ocd?]

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Talk about Blindness [Movie 1/23]

[satedan-soldier.livejournal.com]

Because it's the assignment, that's why.

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[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

"There's some animals that don't see the way we do." Marco pointed out.

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[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"That's because they're animals," Claudia declared, swinging her hair (http://www.braidedimage.com/img42.gif). In honor of the heat coming back on today, Claudia had dressed like she was going to a Hawaiian luau: pink grass skirt, colorful shirt, and jeweled flipflops. On anyone else, her toes would've fallen off walking to class. On Claudia, it looked great.

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[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco blinked at Claudia. "Well, yeah. But the point was that sometimes I couldn't see because there are animals that don't see." The outfit had caused him to skip a logic step there. That was his story and he was sticking to it.

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[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"But you're not an animal," Claudia felt compelled to point out.

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[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco was totally blaming the outfit. "Oh yeah. I can turn into animals." He said very casually. "The real cool, or very weird depending on the animal, part is that you also feel like the actual animal."

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[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

Claudia's jaw dropped. "Shut up," she said. "No you can't."

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[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

"Can too." Marco said, like the five year old he was.

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[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"People can't turn into animals!" Claudia flailed.

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[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

"I can!" Marco said proudly. "I got to save the world too!"

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[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"Why is everyone here so weird?!"

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[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco tried to not to look at her outfit too pointedly. "It's a weird school?"

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[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

The outfit was totally artistic. Completely different.

"There's a difference between quirky and people turning into animals."

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[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

"Turning into animals is a quirk." Marco said, with a big grin. "A very cool quirk."

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[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"Nuh uh," Claudia decided maturely.

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[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

"Uh huh." Marco said with equal maturity. "Where are you from?"

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[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"Connecticut," Claudia said. "Nice, normal Connecticut."

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[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco nodded. "I'm from the LA area."

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[gudspellr-claud.livejournal.com]

"Do you know any movie stars?" Claudia asked.

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[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

"Brad Pitt is going to play me in an upcoming movie?" Marco said, totally not bragging.

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[withoutverona]

"I think I could do almost everything if I went blind, once I had some time to get used to it," Romeo ventured.

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[gobrookeyourself]

"I'd be best at getting sympathy," Brooke said. Hey, she was being honest.

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[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"I have a friend back home who's blind," Sokka offered, "and she can 'see' by feeling vibrations with her feet. It's pretty awesome."

He mentioned this as if it were something anyone could learn to do, and not a special ability due to her being the most powerful Earthbender in the world.

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[darkangelsawyer.livejournal.com]

Peyton was pretty sure that being blind wouldn't affect her ability to appreciate and recognize pretty much everything musical, but it would kill her not to be able to draw anymore.

Re: Talk about Blindness [Movie 1/23]

[shiniernyours.livejournal.com]

"So this is the real kind of blindness," Bender checked. "Not the faking it to get money off popcorn and stuff?" Which he hadn't done.

Really. Not popcorn, just new non-alcoholic-free Slurm.