Gary Peterson
> AAgh! Sorry about that incomplete post. I was interested in
> whether anyone who uses movies in class would find the Blair Witch Project
> useful.
Hi, Gary...
I just happened to see the film last night, at a drive-in in a double
feature with one of the summers "giant underwater animals eating people and
splashing lotsa water around" movies. The contrast really made "Blair" look
good, in the same way that Hitchcock films were always more suspenseful than
standard horror films - it made the audience supply their own fears. (don't
get the impression I'm holding "Blair" up to Hitchcock...tonight I'll be
seeing "Notorious", surely the better movie, at the classic theater).
However, I thought the big lesson of the film was "don't wander off into
the woods with stupid people".
A far afield possible lesson - it occurred to me that there are many people
whose reaction to the movie would be "oh, the potty-mouths! it was
terrible!". I know a couple who responded that way to "Good Will Hunting"
last summer, and I imagine they'd have heart attacks at the Blair Witch
Project. If you really hate hearing people say "fuck", you won't make it ten
minutes into this film. I've always been somewhat interested in why some
people have such negative reactions to "bad language".
Paul Smith
Alverno College
Milwaukee
