On Showing Firefly at School...
POSTED BY: GorramZero
UPDATED: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 03:53
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Nice, a Dune fan. Lynch or Mini? Eh, maybe this thread isn't the place for that.
Anyways, I remember in high school, my teacher showed "Empire Strikes Back" in mythology as an example of modern mythology and mythological archetypes. So I think it's fair to show Firefly in some similar context. I would say in a US History class discussing the colonization of N. America or for Manifest Destiny, since Firefly has a similar flavor with the settlers on the border planets. And of course there's the whole American Civil War thing, considering that's kinda how Joss got the idea for FF in the first place.
As far as using FF for an English/Literature aspect, those of you who are more skilled in that area than myself (sorry, math and science person) have come up with many great reasons to show FF. I know someone mentioned in another thread that "Safe" has a Crucible aspect to it...so there's that.
I guess you could show it in a women's studies class, since FF has some realy strong and interesting female characters, once again because of Joss' background.
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i suppose this isn't the thread, but real quick, i gotta say imo mini did a MUCH better job of ah... "captureing the essence" (my god, i'm such a hypocrit- if someone said that about the lotr movies, i'd cut them down for there heresay.). anyway i just think the lynch version was so concerned w/ details, they forgot to stay true to, oh, the plot? whereas although there are certainly things w/ the mini that i take issue with (thufer, for one) i think it generally got the messege across. plus, cooler looking crysknifes, imo :P
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