I’m currently serving as one of the faculty members involved with a new-ish residential life initiative aimed at raising the intellectual tone around campus. A big part of this is trying to get faculty members to do things in the campus housing spaces. This has all the logistical hassles you would expect, as so we’re always in the market for low-key options.<\/p>\n
After a conversation with a colleague, I’ve been kicking around the idea of a low-key sort of film festival– asking individual faculty members to come to the house one night, and show one of their favorite movies. The idea here would not be to have this connected with a class, or to get people to show subtitled foreign films about Serious Issues, but just to pick some movie that they happen to like, screen it in the house for whatever students are interested, and maybe talk a bit about why they like that particular movie.<\/p>\n
Which, of course, raises the question of what movie I would show. Which, in turn, becomes today’s audience participation item:<\/p>\n
\nIf you were going to screen one movie for a bunch of college students, what would it be?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
My answer:<\/p>\n
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Having specified only one movie in the question, I’m of course going to mention more than one. If I were doing this as part of an already established series, I’d probably go with Miller’s Crossing<\/cite>, the Coen brothers gangster movie with Gabriel Byrne. It’s a very good movie, full of quotable lines (“Intimidating helpless women is part of what I do.” “Then go find one, and intimidate her.”), and not so well known that all of the students would’ve seen it already.<\/p>\n
But if I’m just starting this series, I’d worry that that would seem a little too hefty to set the proper tone. It’s a fun movie, but just Serious enough that the next person up would probably go with Reservoir Dogs<\/cite> or something, and pretty soon we’d be back to the award-winning subtitled Films, which is something I’d really like to avoid.<\/p>\n
If I had to pick something to set the tone, I’d probably aim lower, and go with something like Hoosiers<\/cite> or Midnight Run<\/cite>, two movies that are meaningful to me, but definitely not tripping any real highbrow alarms. Galaxy Quest<\/cite> would be another possibility, though it’s recent enough that they’ve probably all seen it. Though that might not be a Bad Thing.<\/p>\n
But enough of my yakkin’. What would you<\/strong> pick? And why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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