Manitou Movie School
More directly, what specific movies do you like? What are your top ten favorite movies? If you could create your own film course, what would the course be about, and what movies would you show?
As shown on the slide above, Manitou Movie School offerings cover a broad spectrum of areas, subjects, and types, and this is but a sampling. Do any of the above courses draw your attention? Which ones look most appealing? Your answers to any/all of these questions serve as the beginning of our bridge-building, starting points whereby we can connect and find common ground. Here's another exercise in movies...
Employing Motion Pictures as Global Connectors
In writer-director Bill Condon's 1998 film Gods and Monsters, there's a scene where character James Whale (director of the first two Frankenstein movies, played by Ian McKellen) asks his new yardman (Brendan Fraser) if he likes movies. The yardman's answer (as I recall): "Sure, who doesn't."
Of course, who doesn't like movies? Most everyone throughout the modern world likes movies. Thus a more helpful question is, what kind of movies do people like? Take your pick...action-adventure, animation, avant-garde, comedy, crime, cult, documentary, drama, historical, fantasy, horror, melodrama, musical, mystery, romance, science fiction, serials, war, western...
