Reflection Unit 3

         This unit we leaned one part of pop culture—movie. Many people like watching movie, but I think not many people know about movie. Action, adventure, comedy, drama, espics/historical, horror, science fiction, westerns are eight main categories of film. A category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form or content is call genre. I have learned the western genre, the main character is cowboy, the story setting is in the dry dusty west. it involves action, horse, ropes, boots. I learned 4 movie industry’s website, Hollywood, Paramount, Warner Bros, and Tyler Perry Studios. Tyler Perry is one of famous African American actors. He is very smart business men. He knew his advantage to attract the audience. I leaned many terms about movie. For example a movie can call flick, the center of Hindi film industry is call Bollywood. From leaning the text book –Bollywood Princess, I learned more about Bollywood industry. AishwaryaBachchan one of the most famous India actor lead people know about Bollywood. Even how famous they are in Bollywood, they will not easy to break into Hollywood. Still for a variety of reason, not actor has successfully made the transition from Bollywood to Hollywood. I learned some movie reviews about movie Escape Plan in Rotten Tomatoes website. Stephen King told us several reason why people crave Horror movie. One of divertive reason is watching horror movie gave us an reaction of extreme and remind us how normal we really are. I realized that was my Aha moment of this unit. Also I had fun at our movie poster.

Bumper Sticker: Life is like a movie. If you are sad, tear-jerkers. If you are happy, comedy. If you are frightened, horror. Day dreaming, fantasy. 

I don’t know that what standards do critic  comment a move.

Movie Poster

 
Story Line: Best friends grow up in a poor neighborhood. One friend becomes a criminal, and the other becomes a police officer.

Reflection of Unit 2

Dear Gitte,

    This is the sixth week in your class and I learned more about pop culture. It refers to our beliefs, behaviors, and needs, however, it's not only the good, or the bad and also the high and the lows. Pop culture changes frequently and are not fixed in time. The four components of pop culture are object, people, events, and places. For example, film, clothing, Michelle Obama, 9.11, Hollywood, and the White House. I also learned 3 additional terms, culture icon, fad, and trend. Culture icons could be a symbol, logo, and picture, an object or an idea with great culture significance to he wild culture group. An Icon could also be a pop star, however it must leaves people an everlasting memory. Moon cake, an icon of Chinese traditional Moon Festival that is celebrated on the Lunar Calendar of August 15. Another term would be fad, I never actually know what fad was until the presentation of fad of the decade. Fad is something that is very popular for a short period of time, and I consider that as my "Aha Moment". Although everyone just explained in short words, I learned wild leg jeans were popular in the 1990s, it is the decade's pop culture. Lastly, trend, the general direction of something that will be popular in the future, like fashion trend. A famous trend of the 1600s was William Shakespear. Shakespear's writing had been turned into plays and then into movies. It's even been examined by universities for educational use, which influenced his generation of pop culture. In this unit we had a project about pop stars and my pop star is Jackie Chan. His hard work and dedication to martial arts received upmost respect from others and that's how come he's still getting popular. 

    My Bumper Sticker would be "To be or not to be". This is a famous quote from Hamlet, a play written by the famous trend maker of his era, William Shakespears. This is not also considered a quote but question that we should ask ourselves, should we be who we will be. Many times humans, even pop stars could never be who they want to be but be how the society wants them to be. So we must believe and stay true to ourselves and should be whoever and whatever we wanted to be. 

   I don’t know that what is a better way to learn pop culture. 

Pop Star --Jackie Chan

Fads for 1990s ---wild leg jeans