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Sign up for this poo poo y'all. Here's the combo I really really hope comes up:VROOM VROOM posted:Movie: The Raid: Redemption (2011) axleblaze posted:Subtext: 9/11 was an inside job
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I'll try this one out, though my pick might be a easy one edit:oh wait, I missed that part where the picks were randomized lol got to rethink about what to put then Honest Thief fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Aug 31, 2014 |
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Aug 31, 2014 21:33
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What could possibly go wrong? I'm in. Username: TheInvisiblePooka Film: Pain & Gain Subtext: Skeletons Disguised as People
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Sep 1, 2014 01:16
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Sign ups are closed and I will have assignments out later today when I get off of work. RIP Labor Day.
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Fat Lou fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Sep 2, 2014 |
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Sep 2, 2014 03:38
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quote:Looper : All agents defect; all resistors sell out And the easiest essay ever goes to... quote:Her: Millenials and the culture of unearned expertise/clickbaiting. quote:Cloud Atlas (2012) Technology imposes social isolation GonSmithe fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Sep 2, 2014 |
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Sep 2, 2014 03:39
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How the gently caress is skeletons disguised as people going to work? Or do I just not understand that subject?
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Sep 2, 2014 03:43
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GonSmithe posted:And the easiest essay ever goes to... I know  There are always a good number of them that just seem obvious to me. The Fly and 5 stages of grief, The Raid and consumerism, Gremlins and fear of one's own body, Top Gun and the British Empire, etc etc just work in my mind. It is just unavoidable. That being said, I would love to actually read a large number of them though. You know what? If you got a super goddamn obvious one and want to switch it out I will allow you to randomly get one from one of the past Subtext Games and I will put your subtext in there for future games.
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Sep 2, 2014 03:49
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You could always reshuffle things, possibly locking in the movie or subtext, if you think a full quarter of the subtexts are boringly obvious. I doubt anyone's started working on their essays in the last hour.
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Sep 2, 2014 03:59
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Quovak posted:You could always reshuffle things, possibly locking in the movie or subtext, if you think a full quarter of the subtexts are boringly obvious. I doubt anyone's started working on their essays in the last hour. Excuse me but I have already finished my novel and have lined up a publisher.
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Sep 2, 2014 04:02
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Should I watch the first Very Brady movie for context, or
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Sep 2, 2014 04:13
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I think I can do something interesting with the five stages of grief. Treating it as "subtext" means not just listing how the movie traces out the five steps, but how the movie is about the concept of stages of grief, and the subdivided concepts contained with classifying and studying the psychology of grieving. I think I could make something interesting out of that. Though my one question is, if I'm not specified to use the original or remake of The Fly, I can use either, right?
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Sep 2, 2014 04:13
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SORRY GUYS I AM PULLING A 180 AND REASSIGNING THINGS OUT OH GOD PLEASE DO NOT BE UPSET WITH ME!Quovak posted:You could always reshuffle things, possibly locking in the movie or subtext, if you think a full quarter of the subtexts are boringly obvious. I doubt anyone's started working on their essays in the last hour. I did it a few times and had the same issue. INSTEAD, I shifted all the subtexts down one and switched one to avoid someone writing about their own subtext. Magically it looks a lot better...I think? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q__Cj8aipXCk86nzsppYtJRLfMPMGHnR2Ar6MLmJqsU/ code:
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Sep 2, 2014 04:16
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Well, this just got a lot more difficult.
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Sep 2, 2014 04:21
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Naked Lunch and Skeletons Disguised as People is the best pairing.
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Sep 2, 2014 04:24
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My BDSM theme got paired with a movie literally called Pain & Gain, poo poo owns. Here's a freebie for Randall: Michael Bay's prior movie to Pain & Gain, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, literally ends with an endorsement of BDSM sexuality as an alternative to toxic masculinity. Incorporate that or don't.
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Sep 2, 2014 04:27
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ALSO, FOR MY REASSIGNMENTS I AM ANNOUNCING THAT THE FIRST PLACE WINNER WILL RECEIVE ONE(1) 35MM TRAILER REEL of GODZILLA(1998) AS ONE PART OF THEIR PRIZE! Also, I will just say, that if it is a super hard pairing then judging will obviously be more lenient on it because we know it is hard. If it is easy then maybe play us with a few curve balls that we might not immediately think of. At the end of the day I want to believe that you honestly think that your subtext is THE SUBTEXT for that movie. Fat Lou fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Sep 2, 2014 |
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Sep 2, 2014 04:31
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Aw, Gremlins 2 got matched with the subtext I gave it. That's no fun (especially because I stole that combo from some internet videos I saw). The Raid one also seems particularly hard because I don't think there's one whole woman in that movie. Also I'm not sure if the one I got is really easy or really hard. Anyways, as a judge I do want to reiterate that just pretend you're taking it seriously. The one's that annoyed me the most last time were ones that just sort of didn't try to make any connection and just made it a bad parody of this type of analysis. That isn't to say you shouldn't have a sense of humor about it, just attempt to make some sort of believer out of me. Also if it's over like ten pages (more realistically five) don't blame me if it seems I didn't read your essay that closely.
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Sep 2, 2014 06:07
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Jonny Angel posted:My BDSM theme got paired with a movie literally called Pain & Gain, poo poo owns. Here's a freebie for Randall: Michael Bay's prior movie to Pain & Gain, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, literally ends with an endorsement of BDSM sexuality as an alternative to toxic masculinity. Incorporate that or don't. I'm already so excited and you've only made me more so.
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Sep 2, 2014 06:17
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axleblaze posted:The Raid one also seems particularly hard because I don't think there's one whole woman in that movie. There are two. Now, the extent to which they qualify as characters is debatable, since if I recall they have like four lines between them.
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Sep 2, 2014 06:32
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So is Skeletons Disguised as People a real concept, or do I have to come up with exactly what that means? Google just got me back to this thread (and to a few threads about RPGs where people really wanted to become skeletons) Anyway I like that I got Naked Lunch. I've been meaning to see it forever.
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Sep 2, 2014 11:22
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axleblaze posted:The Raid one also seems particularly hard because I don't think there's one whole woman in that movie. Oh, word, this is possibly going to break my brain in half. Cakebaker posted:So is Skeletons Disguised as People a real concept People are just animals pretending to be human.
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Sep 2, 2014 11:47
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Cakebaker posted:So is Skeletons Disguised as People a real concept, or do I have to come up with exactly what that means? Do you know those conspiracy theories where the world is secretly being run by lizard people wearing human skins? I'd imagine it's like that, but with skeletons instead of reptilians.
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Sep 2, 2014 12:50
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I refuse to rewatch I Am Legend so I'm going to be working off of my memory of it from 2007. I hope that is okay.
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Sep 2, 2014 16:06
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TrixRabbi posted:I refuse to rewatch I Am Legend so I'm going to be working off of my memory of it from 2007. I hope that is okay. If you're anything like me that would mean writing the whole essay on the scene where Will Smith yells at a mannequin.
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Sep 2, 2014 16:21
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TrixRabbi posted:I refuse to rewatch I Am Legend so I'm going to be working off of my memory of it from 2007. I hope that is okay. This is a shame because the movie straight up owns - just make sure you're watching it with the correct ending! So as someone who knows jack poo poo about the Brady Bunch, my understanding from a quick Wikipedia search is that I probably don't need to watch any of the original series, but MIGHT want to watch the first movie from '95. My main question here is: to what extent are we allowed / encouraged / discouraged as far as bringing in related films? Or secondary scholarship, I suppose? I feel like Augusto Boal might have something interesting to say about my subtext as it relates to a populist comedy production.
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Sep 2, 2014 16:31
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Well I didn't see the original list but the new one is quite hardcore. I think I understand my subtext so maybe it won't go completely horribly. Good luck everyone!
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Sep 2, 2014 17:32
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Jonny Angel posted:So as someone who knows jack poo poo about the Brady Bunch, my understanding from a quick Wikipedia search is that I probably don't need to watch any of the original series, but MIGHT want to watch the first movie from '95. My main question here is: to what extent are we allowed / encouraged / discouraged as far as bringing in related films? Or secondary scholarship, I suppose? I feel like Augusto Boal might have something interesting to say about my subtext as it relates to a populist comedy production. Bring in any outside sources you need. I remember some people actually having citations and stuff of scholarly articles in the past.
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Sep 2, 2014 17:59
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Incorporating "gently caress the 1970s" into an analysis of the Prestige is going to be a challenge. To what extent can I rework/interpret the subtext to fit into the parameters of the movie. "gently caress the 1870s," sure I could get down with that.
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Sep 2, 2014 18:12
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axleblaze posted:The Raid one also seems particularly hard because I don't think there's one whole woman in that movie. ynohtna posted:Oh, word, this is possibly going to break my brain in half.
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Sep 2, 2014 19:11
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Kirbdog posted:Incorporating "gently caress the 1970s" into an analysis of the Prestige is going to be a challenge. To what extent can I rework/interpret the subtext to fit into the parameters of the movie. "gently caress the 1870s," sure I could get down with that. You're being too literal with 1970s. What themes of life in the 1970s can be seen in Prestige? And what does the film say about those themes?
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Sep 2, 2014 19:19
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VROOM VROOM posted:Your topic is about men being made redundant and the movie features scores (hundreds?) of men being killed. You got this. Yeah, I figured something like that out a while ago. Masculine culture's tendency for self-destruction as a consequence of the need to prove social status and ideological superiority through violent power interactions. There also has to be some good fodder in the film's fraternal relationship, what the absence of female and maternal influences represents (have they emancipated themselves?), and so on.
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Sep 2, 2014 19:23
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12 Angry Men and the Divine Right of the British Empire should be rad. It's literally about a guy pushing his own perspective upon all others until they are unified under one ideology. My assignment should be fun. I don't immediately know how it'll work, but the characters in Looper are self-centered enough that there's likely an argument for Geocentrism in there somewhere.
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Sep 2, 2014 20:37
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I haven't seen Gremlins 2 in a long time but it came out before 9/11 and had scenes in a big tower, right? Okay, time to pull a Shining and claim Joe Dante knew the plan and tried to warn people.
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Sep 2, 2014 21:32
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Gremlins 2 was not a warning. It was a trial run of the special effects used to portray 9/11 as a "simple" terrorist act, thereby disguising what really happened that day.
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Sep 2, 2014 21:40
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Hbomberguy posted:I haven't seen Gremlins 2 in a long time but it came out before 9/11 and had scenes in a big tower, right? I posted about it in gen chat, but the reason I submitted those two wacky things (which I thought would get randomized) was that I found on youtube a guy claiming that Gremlins 2 was the Illuminati Jews in Hollywood telling people that they were gonna do 9/11 in 11 year. His entire reasoning behind this was: a) the address of the building the movie was filmed at supposedly had Illuminati significance, b) the building sort of looks like the world trade center, c) there is a sound of an airplane flying by at one point in the movie, d) there's a shot where reported from channel 9 and channel 11 put their mike's next to each other, e) There's a song on the soundtrack called "bombers in the sky" by a group called the Thompsons TWINs and it's right next to the song "New York, New York", F) There are some TWIN actors from Terminator 2 which is apparently also about 9/11 and E) JEWS. You have to try and be more coherent than that without being anti-Semitic.
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Sep 2, 2014 21:57
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axleblaze posted:I posted about it in gen chat, but the reason I submitted those two wacky things (which I thought would get randomized) was that I found on youtube a guy claiming that Gremlins 2 was the Illuminati Jews in Hollywood telling people that they were gonna do 9/11 in 11 year. His entire reasoning behind this was: a) the address of the building the movie was filmed at supposedly had Illuminati significance, b) the building sort of looks like the world trade center, c) there is a sound of an airplane flying by at one point in the movie, d) there's a shot where reported from channel 9 and channel 11 put their mike's next to each other, e) There's a song on the soundtrack called "bombers in the sky" by a group called the Thompsons TWINs and it's right next to the song "New York, New York", F) There are some TWIN actors from Terminator 2 which is apparently also about 9/11 and E) JEWS. The first movie tells kids there's no santa clause, and now THIS
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axleblaze posted:I posted about it in gen chat, but the reason I submitted those two wacky things (which I thought would get randomized) was that I found on youtube a guy claiming that Gremlins 2 was the Illuminati Jews in Hollywood telling people that they were gonna do 9/11 in 11 year. His entire reasoning behind this was: a) the address of the building the movie was filmed at supposedly had Illuminati significance, b) the building sort of looks like the world trade center, c) there is a sound of an airplane flying by at one point in the movie, d) there's a shot where reported from channel 9 and channel 11 put their mike's next to each other, e) There's a song on the soundtrack called "bombers in the sky" by a group called the Thompsons TWINs and it's right next to the song "New York, New York", F) There are some TWIN actors from Terminator 2 which is apparently also about 9/11 and E) JEWS. I don't know what you're on about, that sounds clear as day to me. 
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Sep 2, 2014 22:21
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Hbomberguy, please cite axleblaze's link extensively and claim it is an Illuminati false flag to throw us off the trail of the real 9-11 secret.
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About the Gremlins 2 thing, sorry. What I try to do is randomize everything and have each individual not get the movie or subtext they submitted. It never crossed my mind that someone had already actually done that somewhere on the internet. Either you can write it and try not to rewrite that essay, or grab a randomized old subtext, that was never written about, from prior years. The choice is yours.
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