Sunday, September 14, 2008

Song that symbolizes Rudy Elemnhurst

The song that reminds me of Rudy Elmenhurst the most is I love Sex and Candy by Marcy Playground. The song talks about sex which Rudy is trying to do throughout the story with Yolanda, and it talks about candy which symbolizes drugs in this song. In the story it talks about how Rudy and his friends do drugs in the doorm rooms. This song represents Rudy's two charcterstics of wanting sex and drugs. Here is the link to the song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDAXltfj8-Y

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Street Car Named Desire

I believe that Vivien Leigh did a better impression of what Blanche would of been on screen. She might of just been a better actress because her accent was what a 1920's southern accent unlike what Jessica Lange's 90's southern accent was. When I read the play I could picture Blanche being more emotioinal and I feel that Vivian did a better job with her emotions then Jessica. I think the quote from Tennessee Williams was best described in the Vivien leigh because she has more unmanagable fear and emotion in her acting then Jessica does. Jessica looks like she is faking her cry and then she laughs at the end of crying which throws me off. I would have to say that the second clip by Vivian Leigh was the better image of Blanche.

Modernism and Postmodernism

The difference between modernism and postmodernism is that modernism is old school and postmodernism is new school. In the story, "The Rudy Elmenhurst Story" Rudy demonstrates postmodernism with the way his language is towards Yolanda. He says things to her like lets have sex instead of using the modern term of lets make love. He also demonstrates postmodernism when he gives Yolanda sexual double meanings for images, which in modernism their is only one meaning for sex terms. He then even shows up at her apartment years later saying,"lets fuck," which is way to postmodern for the modern language which Yolanda is used to. This story shows the difference in language with postmodernism being Rudy's language and modernism being Yolanda's language.