Saturday, December 1, 2012

Blog Revision: Free Choice

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

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