Description: Create a minimalistic poster for a film, TV series, etc. Look at these awesome examples using the various locations in the original Star Wars trilogy.
McMurphy: Which one of you nuts has got any guts?
McMurphy: I can’t take it no more. I gotta get outta here.
Chief Bromden: I can’t. I just can’t.
McMurphy: It’s easier than you think, Chief.
Chief Bromden: For you, maybe. You’re a lot bigger than me.
I’ve been thinking of various ideas for this assignment for a few days now, but I knew it had to be this film. It is one of my all time favorites. The themes from the book about rebellion, society, and authority strike a strong chord with me, and I love the acting and direction by Milos Forman.
I was a bit worried it wasn’t minimal enough, but I think I nailed two of the big ideas of the film. Would love to hear your thoughts on the poster, the book, or the film. Never a bad time to discuss the rebel and society.
I like how the lock connects the Os in Cuckoo’s 🙂
really nice!
Thanks, but that was actually me cheating. The text is from the real poster and the lock as well. I am realizing that the original poster itself was pretty minimal.
I know what you mean about focusing on one movie that you know will be the one. I was going the keep my Harold and Maude theme going on my blog, but a couple days ago I came across a name I had not thought of in a while and went with barfly. So that became the vision.
I did a Cuckoo’s Nest gif for class a while back: http://paganpiratearchives.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/all-these-animated-gifs-has-made-me/
Same chainlink fence look. We gotta get over that wall!
One of my favorite assignments for this book was the rewrite of a scene from another character’s perspective. Among the best ones I read was the scene with the prostitutes that a student had written from the perspective of one of the prostitutes. The dialogue, expression, tone, and syntax were priceless.
I love this assignment because it throws at the students more clearly the idea of the narrator’s perspective. Chief as the narrator is absolutely absent from the movie, but is so central to the novel’s story. Without his perspective, we lose the idea of narrator unreliability.
You could not go wrong with this movie, a favorite for me (and due for a rematch).
I enjoyed the book as well, if I recall was a bit more about The Chief and Murphy was rougher.
I might have aimed for something more subtle — just the nurses cap, or pills on a tray, even the urinal — but there is no right or wrong here, all creativeness is good.