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Fargo/Coen Brothers (i) week syllabus 01/22-01/29

Film:

Fargo  (1996) Coen brothersRoger Deakins

Exercise:

Dramatic construction with index cards. Each card = one minute of screen time, one script page.

“writing on each of them a minimal number of words that describe a step in the narrative… Important character interactions in a scene.” (Mackendrick p. 45)

what each main character in the scene wants. scene objective. how the story moves forward.

Script to read:

Fargo (Coen brothers)

Course book:

On Film-making (Alexander Mackendrick)

Films to watch this week:

Nightfall | Jacques Tourneur (1957)

On Dangerous Ground | Nicholas Ray (1951)

Article “five films that influenced the Coens’ classic” from BFI

Articles to read:

none

Essay or script:

500 words on Fargo or neo-noir script 3-5 pages (Saturday)

Location scouting:

none

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Writing/Film Project:

Chukkumi (mornings)

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Book to read:

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. James Joyce.

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Photo project:

none

jornada del muerto

read about jornada del muerto, old conquistador trail in the virreinato de nueva españa and the site of the trinity atomic bomb test.

(bandera del virreinato de nueva españa / wikimedia)

santa fe to mexico city: camino real de tierra adentro.

(wikimedia)

watched foxcatcher (2014) bennett miller

to see

i walked with a zombie (1943)  jacques tourneur