Class notes: 11/24/09
-Group Presentation day!
-Read Amanda Jones’ Blog!
-RUTH GROUP
A live performance with video clips;
-missing opra clip, but funny, err horrific, clips of people hit by busses.
-Modern displacements morals, innuendos,
-Final clip of Jesus prancing naked, sings, then WHAM!! Hit by a bus.
-Check Ashley’s blog for more info, summary, and other important Ruth Group apocalyptic knowledge.
-Baby Ruth candies!!
-Discussion:
-Character names all have meanings, Ruth=Friend
-Line from Ruth still used in marriages,
-Buss shots: contemporary irony to fill lacunas
-Book of Ruth fulfilling story of lineage from Jesus to Kamar
-Esther Group
-The book of Esther from the imagination of a child.
-Live Performance
-Kids asked gramps to tell stories
-old senile, angry, grandpa
-Frame narrative set-up, grandpa telling the story while actors act it out – great!
-The inter-noodle is the internet!
-Cookies!!!
Discussion:
-Check Thomas’ blog for script and summary.
-1st and 2nd Samuel
-Rated R for nudity, language, and graphic content! Viewer discretion is advised!!
-The raising up of the Monarchy, Saul, David
-David’s tumultuous reign
-Great book, one of the best of the Old Testament.
-A PUPET SHOW-
-Sock puppet’s, awesome!!
-Derrick’s great falsetto voice!!
-Use of pictures projected as background, helps add context to the sock puppets,
-Sock puppets a great metaphor for god’s people…
-Bathsheba and David scene, erotic, funny,
-Discussion: Absolom’s death, hanging from his hair,
-David putting Bathsheba’s husband in front lines so he’s die
-Davis’s consistency of mourning for his sons
