Auteur Film Series: Interesting Discussion

INTRODUCTION

Hello All,

I have decided that I will start this blogger again after a couple of literal years of new maturity and experience, but many in a figurative sense. I suppose you can look forward to a plethora of existential self-duologue as well as interesting topics and happenings in my life. I will be posting links to new media I create, whether it be music, film, or another form of art.

I have changed.

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THE MEAT

Tonight I attended the "Auteur Film Series" at the Spring Creek CCCC campus, the featured film was "The Name of the Rose" written by Umberto Eco and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. The film originates from Eco's book, originally in Italian, "Ll Nome Della Rossa," written in 1980 and then translated into English and made into a film in 1986.

The film is a tale set in the Germanic Alps, year 1327. It follows a Franciscan friar, William (Sean Connery), and his young apprentice Adso (Christian Slater) during their stay at an abbey, which is troubled with a recent murder. The murder has all of the monks suspecting work of the devil, but William uses his deductive sense of forbidden though to get to solving the mystery. This is really just the surface of what the film has to offer, as you go deeper you get a great story about censorship and The Inquisition as well as large thematic insights to life and the human condition.

There weren't many people at the showing of the film in the convention hall, probably no more than 30. The majority, everyone but Mary, (my girlfriend) two other older 40's people, and myself, were there for an extra credit assignment. I particularly enjoyed this, because it allowed discussion afterwards to be much more personal, and slightly more intelligent and evolved. Instead of having the panel of professors, a History, Music (I believe), Philosophy, and English/Humanities, sitting on the stage speaking to a vast sea of film lovers, we sat in the tables and spoke without augmentation. It turned mostly into a lecture due to the zombies who wanted their extra credit, and about 20 minutes later the zombies were permitted to leave, which left the 4 professors and the 4 students to fire beams of idealism and analysis at each other.

We all sat a large round table volleying ideas back and forth and making literary connections etc. The two other students said only a few things, which left most of the discussion between the professors and Mary and I. Great fun, much better discussion than my freaking English class, which are all stuck with the phrase "you know" and the biggest "I want to sound deep," connections to life, clichés.



I will leave thee with a link to my demo reel.,

Andrew Reyna