For this blog, I chose to write about the Spike Lee Story on art and money in movies. I find this article funny because I can relate it to something I realized a few days ago in a movie forum online. Someone on this forum proposed the question of whether or not they believe that the forum was created for fans of the hit movie "Saw" or, did "Saw" become such a great hit because of all the feedback on the "advertising" website. Some movies just don't have the publicity that others have because of lack of budget. I think advertising plays a big role on whether or not the movie is a success. I agree with Spike when he mentions that marketing helps movies get a bigger audience.

For my research paper, I decided to write about subliminal messages and innuendos in movies not specifically made for adults. Take Disney movies for example: the Walt Disney company has been sued numerous times for discreetly displaying sexual content and drug references in their cartoons. Some of these have been said to be rumors or just our minds playing games with us. Some people have also suggested that we see and hear these subliminal messages because we want to see them or because we are told what to look for. However, I beg to differ. I believe these things are put into the movies intentionally.

Advertising, Sex & Lies

I chose to blog on the essay written by Gloria Steinem: “Sex, Lies, and Advertising.” I found this essay very interesting, because it’s something that’s going on at the moment in society. Advertising is used in a very sexist manner. For example, the way car advertisements are only found in men’s magazines or how household products are presented in commercials by women. In addition, advertisement is used in a very subtle manner. In the article, the author mentions how, in magazines, an advertisement of a certain product is shown and a few pages later, you see the product being used in an article. This, discreetly, gets us thinking of ways that this product may be useful to us, causing us to want to buy it. This is a big issue in modern society, and I agree with the author that these advertising techniques need to be changed.

My reaction to “And Then I Went to School”…

I enjoyed this story mostly because I can relate to it. I don’t relate to it in the sense that I had to fit in to a community with a different language, but because of the fact that I went through many different high schools. Each time I transferred to a different school, I would compare it to the last and find that I missed a lot about the old one: the people, the classes, and the system altogether. Every time that I started at a new school, until I became accustomed, I was disappointed because I would compare it to the last and would only see the negative aspects of the new one. I liked the way the story used vivid details to compare his experience in school and his life at home. It lets us get a feel of just how much he missed his home.