We've been watching and talking about the film Juno (2007), a Canadian-American comedy-drama about a 16-year-old girl who becomes pregnant after having sex one time with her best friend.
The film won an Academy Award for best original screenplay and stars Ellen Page as the title character, Michael Cera, Olivia Thirlby, J.K. Simmons, Allison Janney, Jennifer Garner, and Jason Bateman.
As Wikipedia notes, the film Juno received "numerous positive reviews from critics, many of whom placed the film on their top ten lists for the year. The film has also received both criticism and praise from members of both the pro-life and pro-choice communities regarding its treatment of abortion."
Our class discussions have focused on teen pregnancy, adoption, abortion and Juno's relationship with Bleeker, the father of her child. We are also learning a lot of new vocabularly, including unusual teenager slang.
We finished watching the film together on Tuesday, and for Thursday, we are each writing a 100-word email that Juno might have written to Vanessa.
In Thursday's class we will be acting out a few scenes using the original script used in production.
We also we do some acting improvisations based on the scenes. Come to class prepared to play and to earn participation points.
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Fans' favorite quotes from the movie
I liked the movie (: , I wanted to watch it since I heard about it, but I never had the chance... but, well, now I did :)
ReplyDeleteIt will be interesting to see how we act, I don't think I'm a good actress, but, anyway, I think we'll have a funny time tomorrow (:
I'm glad you liked the movie. Don't worry about not being a good actress. I don't think any of us are professionals. :)
ReplyDeleteI'll be looking forward to tuesday class, I couldn't make it on Thursday because of being very sick, but I hope all of you had a great time acting.
ReplyDeleteIt was a very good class, Giselle. We tried new exercises and did a bit of improvisational work as a group.
ReplyDeleteWe will repeat some of these on Tuesday.
Today's class was funny (: I had never tried the "mirror" excercise, that was funy haha (: , and I have to say my classmates are good actors! I don't really like acting, but I liked today's class :)
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