fandomhigh | Monsters and Humans. Lecture: Misinformation (film). Friday, Period 4

Both Drac and Mavis were already in the room today, as was hopefully going to be the norm. Mavis was still a wolf, though, which was hopefully not going to be normal. Drac was reading that stupid Dracula novel again. It had talked about transforming into a wolf, so maybe it had some clue about changing back from one? Mavis didn't seem as concerned; she was bouncing around the class, being chased by a zombie playmate. Well, technically it was just a zombie, a relative of one of the bandmembers from Caritas, but since Mavis had his armbone and was running around the room with it, he was unwittingly her new playmate.

Mavis seemed to find it ~~humerus~~ humourous?

Startled at the arrival of the first of his students- he hadn't noticed how much time had passed!- Drac closed his book and smiled as the children filed in.

He stood to begin his lecture:

"As I hope you are all aware, spreading misinformation can be very hazardous. It spreads fear and mistrust and can cause not only hurt feelings, but also causes physical harm."

Drac took a moment to look sympathetically at the students.

"Like myself, many of you have been bullied simply for being what you are, have been forced to live a life apart or in hiding, all because of people being misinformed. I hope that none of you has personally experienced the pain or loss that accompanies being feared."

He took in a few of the humans in his class.

"Any of you."

He'd lived through enough of the world to know that humans even hated other humans.

"Today I am going to show you one of the means by which misinformation can be spread. We had books last week; this week I have found an early moving picture version of a vampire myth, used to spread fear and hatred among humans in the 1920s. It contains a good number of the stereotypes we spoke of last week."

He clapped and the zombie stopped playing tug of arm with Mavis and headed for a trolly at the back of the room that was supporting an old projector.

"Gerald here has assured me he is a licensed projectionist, so while it is unusual to have the projector in the same room as the viewers, there is no need to worry about the film catching fire." He gave the zombie a stern glare and it cowered slightly and groaned assent before reaching out to fumble one handedly with the apparatus.

"After the show, we will have a discussion about the film."

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The film is on YouTube (85 minutes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcyzubFvBsA
Wiki has a fairly detailed plot description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu
Darksidesanitarium has an embedded video and some cool movie trivia: http://darksidesanitarium.blogspot.com/2011/07/nosferatu-1922-full-movie.html

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With your best "WTF is going on?" face!

Sholeh Zeela a Zhahar

Raven Darkholme

Evan Sabahnur

Jackson Whittemore

Mavis Dracula

Alec Lightwood

Victor Mancha

Shane Gooseman

Anna Korlov

Listen to Drac. React to the movie. Or, you know, watch the zombie try not run a projector one-armed, pass notes, or just sleep (and hopefully don't get caught by Drac)

There was no chance of Sholeh passing notes or falling asleep. She was allowed to audit the class and that meant she was going to super 100% best student possible.

Though she was going to look down very intently at her desk when Drac mentioned being bullied and harmed for what they were. For, you know, reasons.

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Goose stared straight ahead as he listened to the lecture, trying not to react at the mention of being bullied, he'd lost count of how many times he and Commander Walsh had been run out from the various places they had stayed at after Wolf Den when it had been discovered that he was a Supertrooper.

Drac spent much of the film grumbling and snorting. Except for the end. There, he was slightly cringing... watching even that vampire be killed was not something he enjoyed.

"So. Shall I start us off? Let us say that was you or a classmate in the monster role; how does it make you feel, knowing that this is what others think is real?"

Open discussion; free thread it up!

"RRRRRPh!" said Mavis, jumping up on a desk to bark at the screen. Her mood was kind of unfairly colored by the fact she'd dropped her arm and before she could hunt it down again, it had been groaningly reclaimed by its undead owner.

Except "RRRRRPh!" came out as "I just want to be able to grow my claws as long as that guy's! How does he do that -- unicorn horn wraps?"

Um. At least this time she was just sitting on top of a desk, not dancing?

Sitting fully clothed atop a desk, thank you very much. With a red satin bow-tie (http://fandomhigh.livejournal.com/3404808.html?thread=201316872#t201316872) in her hair.

As always, Drac was here and ready to talk.

With the usual SP from me, until this evening. sorry.

MAVIS HAS AN ARM TODAY! Sure it doesn't belong to her and she's chewing on it, but still! An ARM!

Is Evan here? Does he have an arm?

Evan had two arms! They were actually attached, and he wasn't chewing on them. But he was kind of giving Mavis a side-eye, because...

Well, whose arm was that?

MAVIS'S ARM NOW, GRR RRR RRR RRR RRRPH!

...Whoops. Until she dropped it.

LJ HAAAATES ME TODAY!

I know peeps are BDEing it, so, film day! Any BDE visitors are welcome.

MAVIS HAS AN ARM. AHAHAHAHAHAH.

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