Hooray for Hollywood! Film Studies - Mini-Course!

Week of 4/11 Director Focus: Martin Scorsese (1942 - )

Class Discussion on Google Classroom: "What makes a good movie?" Response and MCU (Marvel) movie

Reading: "Scorsese: I Said Marvel Movies Aren't Cinema.." https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/opinion/martin-scorsese-marvel.html

Viewing: One Marvel movie. See list below AND one movie from Scorsese himself (most of his movies are on Netflix).

Notable Films: Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Departed, The Irishman

Writing: 250-350 Word Response on Classroom, reply to two classmates (50 words each) In your opinion, are Marvel (MCU) movies "theme-parks"? Explain.

Possible Responses:250-350 word initial response - Discuss the movie you viewed this week and connect it to any of the following quotes from Scorsese's essay: a) "Cinema was about revelation - aesthetic, emotional and spiritual revelation b) [Cinema] was about characters - the complexity of people and their contradictory and sometimes paradoxical natures, the way they can hurt one another and love one another and suddenly come face to face with themselves. c) [Cinema] was about confronting the unexpected on the screen and in the life it dramatized and interpreted, and enlarging the sense of what was possible in the art form.