English @ SUNY Geneseo | AJ Smith | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/ajsmith86/activity/ Activity feed for AJ Smith. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 25a1d880952fa30754e9636a3b3b0e7a AJ Smith replied to the topic The (Not So) Great Gatsby in the forum Film Talk http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/the-not-so-great-gatsby/#post-437 Tue, 06 May 2014 19:37:45 -0500 I’d like to disagree with some of what you said about the visual style of the film. While I agree that the degree of elaboration makes the film seem unrealistic, I don’t think that this is a bad thing. I would even say that the film’s goal is to appear unrealistic and outlandish, which reflects Gatsby’s character perfectly. Ultimately, The Great…[Read more]

]]> 96f2c9c73c5e1433761bcd6cb3b8cde8 AJ Smith started the topic Washington Square: The American Cinderella in the forum Film Talk http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/washington-square-the-american-cinderella/ Mon, 17 Mar 2014 01:10:13 -0500 Watching “Washington Square,” I couldn’t help but think about it in terms of the fairytales we’ve been reading for class, particularly Cinderella and Red Riding Hood. I thought a good slogan for the film could be: Cinderella Meets a Wolf on Her Way to the Ball. The movie starts like the typical Cinderella tale. In the Introduction to the…[Read more]

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