https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/laz2/activity/ Activity feed for Liesel Zimmerman. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 b75a40d4f5600bfd02820396b3b03157 http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/jay-gatsby-as-an-anti-hero/#post-427 Mon, 05 May 2014 19:45:07 -0500 After our class discussion last week on anti-heroes, this was the first time I had viewed Gatsby in this light. I agree with Megan and Dorothea in that I had originally considered him to be a tragic hero, guilty only of maintaining his idealized dream for the future. Instead of instantly seeing Gatsby as a hero, I instead took note of his more…[Read more]

]]> 39f67eaaa9b4b5ebe79cd0f51f0b19b7 http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/the-silence-of-the-lambs/#post-283 Tue, 11 Mar 2014 18:36:08 -0500 In response to your noting of the “extreme close-ups,” this is something that I noticed as well. Throughout the film, Lecter highlights the concept of “simplicity,” and I feel that the filmmakers took this to heart. The use of close-ups for the exchanges between Lecter and Agent Starling let the richness of the dialogue speak for itself. There i…[Read more]

]]> aede19b6ccaf7de350ebc1dd6ee5c8b7 http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/heroism-in-glory/ Mon, 03 Mar 2014 03:02:07 -0500 The film Glory highlights the heroic acts of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw in leading the nation’s first all-black regiment. However, the film does not just praise the valor of Shaw, but of the entire 54th Massachusetts Regiment. This joint focus departs from the purely biographical take of Peter Burchard’s One Gallant Rush. The theme of sacrifice is…[Read more]

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