Wendy and Lucy accompanied with Awara

I believe that the film Wendy and Lucy would be best accompanied with Awara. The reason I think that these films are alike is due to the fact they are about class warfare and how that affects peoples point of view. The first main example of these compare how class warfare affects people point of view was how that Judge Raghunath believes that “good people are born to good people, and criminals are born to criminals” with how he convicts Jagga just because he in the lower class and his father was a criminal. Then Jagga uses the judge’s son to show how his belief and that class does not make the person. This mimics Wendy and Lucy with how the film takes a shot at jobs and the lower class where the Security Guard Wendy says “you can't get an address without an address. You can't get a job without a job.” This I believe has a shot at how capitalism has taken over and unless you are in the system you are out of luck. Another part of Wendy and Lucy that takes aim at the class differences, where when Wendy is caught shoplifting and taken to the management office by the clerk. He states that the “rules apply to everyone” and “if a person can’t afford dog food they shouldn’t have a dog”. This in my opinion was such an elitist attitude with how he makes a snap decision and becomes judge and jury. It seems like he thinks he is higher that Wendy and I believe showing the cross in plain view had something to do with showing the elitist/virtue attitude.

O Brother,Where Art Thou? with Odyssey theme

One of the main themes that I saw in O Brother,Where Art Thou? was the homage to Homer's Odyssey. This was done in multiple ways and they don't exactly follow what happened in Odyssey. The scene that I think that was done flawlessly, even if it doesn't perfectly align, is the Three Sirens. In the original the main character of Odyssey is the only one that hears the Sirens but in Brother,Where Art Thou? all three characters are lured by the singing of Sirens. And the way it plays homage to Odyssey is that the Sirens are near rocks which in Odyssey they lure the men to the rocks causing the sinking of their ships, where in this case it show cases the down fall of the men and losing their friend.

The scene begins with the trio in the car at 42:40 with Delmar picking at the banjo aimlessly. Then off screen singing begins that sound off in the distance. Pete looks off screen left suggesting the sound is coming from there. 42:46 Pete tells Delmar to stop to assumedly hear the sound better. Camera cuts to point of view shot from the car into what seems like a valley. 42:54 Pete reacts to seeing something and yells for the car to be pulled over. (I didn't see anything in the valley but could have missed what he saw). 43:00 cut to full shot with forest in the background suggesting back country area. Pete darts presumably toward sound while Delmar and Everett get out of the car. 43:10 cut to close up of pete running through bushes and stops, supposedly finding the source of the music which is soft and inviting. 43:13 cutaway to very wide shot of a river and the sirens near some rocks in the river with the singing amplified. 43:18 the main characters in wide shot of rocky river and cut back to wide shot of the sirens and finally showing they are the source of the music. 43:31 cut to mid shot pete introducing himself with Everett and Delmar. Multiple cuts to close ups of the Sirens to the trio showing them seduction beginning with singing continued. 44:51 the siren makes Everett drink alcohol showing even more of the downfall of the trio. 45.24 Cut to mid shot with sirens still singing and camera pans left to show the trio with the sirens. 45:30 a noticeable eerie music in the background maybe giving a precursor to the danger of the sirens

Avant-Garde cinema in My Own Private Idaho's

The scene I think that is Avant-Garde type of cinema in My Own Private Idaho is the where a stranger walks into a shop and some of the characters are on the front cover and begin to talk to each other. I mean something like this was on the Brady Bunch but to have the text of the magazines stay in place and as they move. It seems like some animation and certain cutting of film took place to make this scene possible. The scene begins at 17:34 where you see the camera starts at mid level building wise showing the name a shop. Given by the ad underneath the sign it seems to be an ad XXX shop. 17:35 the camera starts to tilt down giving a view of front of the shop and three people in front. Shows rough neighbor hood, kind of dark and dingy. Then at 17:40 the camera tracks to the right and down of the shop with the three people in view. The music is what I would call Indian music. As the shot lowers you see that the three people are in fact men and gives the impression it is a gay XXX shop. At 17:45 the sound of boots come in and is getting closer. At 17:50 a cowboy comes into full view and enters the shop. The camera flashes inside at 17:57 and a mid shot of the cowboy at his waste as he passes through to the back as the camera tracks him but slowly so that at the end he is in full view while flashing some magazines which could be important. At 18:11 we see Schott on one of the magazines and begins to talk about his experience as a model. This is also where we finally learn about Schott. At 18:49 Schott interacts with Mike on another magazine cover. The covers have at least mid shots. At 19:04 the effect comes into view, the actors on other magazines begin to interact teasing Schott about being able to come into money while all of the actors being in what looks like total different spots/magazines. The purpose of this scene seems to be to get the understanding that Schott has money and show more of the Gay culture.