Las Vegasfools Rush Inforest Summary Of A Movie
Your paper MUST be submitted in Microsoft Word format (.doc
or .docx) – no other formats will be accepted – that means NO
Word Perfect (.wps) or Rich Text (.rtf).
Your file MUST be saved using your LAST name: smith.doc or
jones.docx for example – do NOT use any other name for your file
(like the name of the movie)
**IMPORTANT**:
You
must
consult the
Excluded Movie list
found in the Extra Credit module
BEFORE starting your paper. I reserve the
right to add to this list at any time so it’s always best to check with me
before proceeding with this assignment. If you use a film off this list you
are automatically disqualified and score NO points.
NO EXCEPTIONS!
I don’t care if you’ve written the paper and submitted it using a movie
on the list – do
NOT use a film off of the Excluded Movie list!
Think geographically about what you have seen in your movie.
Spend NO more than a couple sentences summarizing the movie. I will
deduct points if you exceed that limit. You should then
develop the geographic themes
that the movie uses as part of the story. This
might include particular spatial interactions between characters and
places and/or people – or how geographies are created within your
movie. How are the various geographies in the text reflected in the
landscapes depicted? How do these geographies help create suspense
or amusement or spectacle? Discuss the possible motivations the
producers had for choosing the settings that were used in the movie.
Support your general arguments with specific examples from the movie.
How do space and place help the movie make its point? How does the
movie reinforce or contest the formation of the mental maps we use to
navigate the real geographies of the United States?
movies list:
50 First Dates
A River Runs Through It
Bridges Of Madison County
Brokeback Mountain
Cars (all versions)
Cold Mountain
Crash (later version)
Dances With Wolves
Day After Tomorrow
Dumb and Dumber
Far and Away
Fast and Furious (any of them)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fools Rush In
Forest Gump
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Frozen
Gangs Of New York
Hunger Games (any of them)
Into The Wild
Just Go With It
Last of the Mohicans
Legally Blonde
Legends Of The Fall
Lilo and Stitch
National Treasure
Notebook, The
Patriot, The
Pearl Harbor
Proposal, The
Rat Race
San Andreas
Sweet Home Alabama
Thelma and Louise
Twilight (all of them)