Kick off your Sunday shoes
Aug. 29th, 2009 11:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieI got Footloose from Netflix this weekend because I feel like it's a pop culture phenomenon that passed me by, and I should know it.* Plus, you know, dancing. Which I enjoy. And Lori Singer, whom I liked in VR.5 and have yet to see in anything else.
I did enjoy the movie--dancing! And...playing chicken with tractors, which I can't say as I was expecting--although now that song (which I did in fact know from before, so I'm not completely out of the pop culture loop) is on repeat in my head. Ack. I've decided that I'm going to mention Kevin Bacon's character's speech at the town council meeting, where he cites Biblical passages exhorting people to dance before God in support of repealing the law against public dancing, as an example of an argument of precedent in class on Monday. I have a feeling my students won't have seen the film, but at least that scene is easy to summarize. And it amuses me to use it, so that's a plus.
One thing that seriously surprised me, though. Lori Singer's character uses an honest-to-god bookstrap in the scenes at the high school. I...did not know these things actually existed. No, really. I totally thought they were something the makers of those cartoon images of kids and school supplies that are ubiquitous on elementary school bulletin boards (or were when I was that age, anyway) made up because they couldn't or didn't want to draw backpacks or something. I didn't know people actually used them.
Raise your hand if I just made you feel really, really old. ;)
Anyway. Back to mounds of grading...
ETA: Huh. Apparently there's a remake being made next year. Hey, mentioning it in class might even be vaguely topical!
* In my defense, I was still over a week from being born when it came out.
I did enjoy the movie--dancing! And...playing chicken with tractors, which I can't say as I was expecting--although now that song (which I did in fact know from before, so I'm not completely out of the pop culture loop) is on repeat in my head. Ack. I've decided that I'm going to mention Kevin Bacon's character's speech at the town council meeting, where he cites Biblical passages exhorting people to dance before God in support of repealing the law against public dancing, as an example of an argument of precedent in class on Monday. I have a feeling my students won't have seen the film, but at least that scene is easy to summarize. And it amuses me to use it, so that's a plus.
One thing that seriously surprised me, though. Lori Singer's character uses an honest-to-god bookstrap in the scenes at the high school. I...did not know these things actually existed. No, really. I totally thought they were something the makers of those cartoon images of kids and school supplies that are ubiquitous on elementary school bulletin boards (or were when I was that age, anyway) made up because they couldn't or didn't want to draw backpacks or something. I didn't know people actually used them.
Raise your hand if I just made you feel really, really old. ;)
Anyway. Back to mounds of grading...
ETA: Huh. Apparently there's a remake being made next year. Hey, mentioning it in class might even be vaguely topical!
* In my defense, I was still over a week from being born when it came out.
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Date: 2009-08-30 04:39 am (UTC)You're kidding, right? Why would someone invent something fictional in a cartoon, where the image must be instantly understood by the reader? There was, after all, a time before backpacks...
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Date: 2009-08-30 04:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-30 04:52 am (UTC)Also, I noted your hand-raising suggestion after I posted, though it probably goes without saying that you have once again made me feel ancient. And seriously, I've just just over two years before I even hit 40! What's wrong with this picture??
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Date: 2009-08-30 03:50 pm (UTC)Er...think of it as having more experience than I do? ;)
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Date: 2009-08-30 05:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-30 02:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-31 03:30 am (UTC)