Ideology>Monologue.2

What is the relationship between content, form and perspective?

Having Harknessed the transcript of This is Water, you are now being asked to consider how this text type is transposed by the film-makers. 

As we watch, consider:

What directorial choices have been made & why?

(Abridging)

(Non-diegetic sound)

(Subtitle/text)

(Montage)

(mis-en-scene)

(editing/transitions)

(speed of speech/pauses)

   What is lost & What is gained?

The abridged film version renders Foster Wallace’s version euphoric secular, versus the more (perhaps bleak/fatalistic) (Christian) faith bias to the full speech. How? Why?

•The abridged film version of  This is Water makes Foster Wallace’s speech far more euphoric and secular.

•The original version, the full audio-recording of the speech, has a much more (bleak/fatalistic) Christian bias. It’s also, perhaps more obviously anti-consumerism, maybe even ‘socialist’ – or at least anti-capitalist. Why the changes?

•Consider the CONTEXT to the two forms

•Audience imperatives: small liberal arts colllege vs global youtube…