In this blog, I would like to consider some ideas
and topics for my project blog essay. I am going to write my essay based on a
film analysis of one of the movies that I watched and previously blogged about.
My initial plan was to write my essay based on the movie Coraline because I really admire the artistic elements that create
and make up the movie. However, I realized that artistic depictions and movie
creation has absolutely nothing to do with my topic. Therefore, it would be
best to base my essay on the children's film Paranorman.
Paranorman would be a great movie for me to
write about because it uses the genre of fantasy to alert its audience about
bullying and it depicts ghosts and zombies in an inviting and comical way.
These topics would be good for my thesis statement because the issue of
bullying is extremely important due to the growing rate of suicide attempts and
depression among school aged children and teens. The whole objective of the
movie is to send this message out to children and provide a positive solution
to the issue. Also, the movie depicts the ghosts and zombies in a way that
seems to give the audience the message that they are not frightening. For example,
all of the ghosts are friends of Norman and have comical outgoing personalities
making them seem friendly instead of frightening. I think this aspect of the
movie is important because it gives children the chance to be comfortable with
characters such as ghosts who are usually depicted in dramatically intimidating
ways.
-FairyTaleMovieQueen
