Happy Valentine’s Day from What Does the Protagonist Want?
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Sam’s valentine for his class this year. In case it’s not clear, that’s Indiana Jones, clutching a stolen heart, being chased by a giant rolling m&m. (Small bags of m&m’s were taped to the back of each valentine.
As an added attraction, beneath the fold I’ve compiled a collection of my favorite valentine designs from around the internet. If you "get" every single one of these jokes, congratulations! You’re a geek.
Feel free to post your own finds.
Favorite Screenplays: Death Proof part 1
Quentin Tarantino’s movies are explosions of meaning. They spew significance of many different kinds in every direction on a shot-by-shot basis. Every element of every shot is fraught with references, usually to other movies. As such, they invite multiple readings from a number of different points of view and philosophical schools. For instance, I just read a book-length monograph on Pulp Fiction that examined every aspect of the movie but one — what the characters in the movie do and say.
I am not smart enough or cool enough to catch every one of the thousands of references that give Tarantino’s movies their postmodern punch — I’ve never seen a Shaw Bros kung-fu movie, for instance. So I will limit myself in this analysis to what I do understand: characters and their motivations. And I will leave the examination of angles, design choices, costumes, hairstyles, cultural freight and songs to others.