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Our Posting here on the Topic can be quite useful for China's (etc.) EFL learners. (Mang ren mo xiang) Different perspectives. Guily until proven innocent. Good for promoting Critical Thinking.

As I read most-but-not-all of the Off-Topic Postings (now closed) on the Orphanage/KFC-Christmas etc., and the characters coming in-and-out of the audiosphere, I was having movie-images. Cheech-and-Chong audio feedback.

The movie The Big Chill flashbacks. AND...Full Frontal echoes (See BELOW). Each poster can be covered/studied by a student. The Foreign Teacher can help them get into the spirit of the Role. Students can read other postings by those characters on this Forum...to get into the spirit of the character...and to be aware of the development of the character...the give-and-take process of discussion/humor/flaming/defense...all this can be quite interesting for EFL learners...in China and abroad.

I AM NOT BEING SARCASTIC!!!!This CAN be a valuable EFL learning project. That Orphanage discussion reflected a wide range of philosophical/psychological/spiritual dynamics. As well as some good laughs!!! AND...sincerely-held opinions-in-conflict.

One way to make the process even more "authentic language input" is to have the writers do Audio reading of their postings...with emotion/conviction/humor/sarcasm...whatever feels right.

If folks are interested in this project, please contact me. If there are privacy issues, we should be able to resolve them, to protect confidentiality, yes?

With the digital camera, we could even have some fun and make a sort of Full Frontal movie from this. Anyone interested? Truly these discussions have FLAVOR, yes? There's a MARKET for the UNIQUE, yes? We could shoot this in a week. Easy for folks to play role. Scripts are already written. Improv is OK, also. Any Volunteers? Actually, not 'volunteers" but "project partners/income sharers..." Profits can also be donated to Charities-of-choice, such as Orphanages, Hope Foundation, my friends at www.khamaid.org
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Full Frontal


BY ROGER EBERT / August 2, 2002



Miramax Films Presents A Film Directed By Steven Soderbergh. Written By Coleman Hough. Running Time: 101 Minutes. Rated R (For Language And Some Sexual Content).


Every once in a while, perhaps as an exercise in humility, Steven Soderbergh makes a truly inexplicable film. There was the Cannes "secret screening" of his "Schizopolis" in 1996, which had audiences filing out with sad, thoughtful faces, and now here is "Full Frontal," a film so amateurish that only the professionalism of some of the actors makes it watchable.
This is the sort of work we expect from a film school student with his first digital camera, not from the gifted director of "Traffic" and "Out of Sight." Soderbergh directs at far below his usual level, and his cinematography is also wretched; known as one of the few directors who shoots some of his own films, he is usually a skilled craftsman, but here, using a digital camera and available light, he produces only a demonstration of his inability to handle the style. Many shots consist of indistinct dark blobs in front of blinding backlighting.
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Following the smashing successes of Ocean's Eleven, Traffic, and Erin Brockovich, director Steven Soderbergh was obviously in the mood for a change of pace. This eighteen-day video shoot covers twenty-four hours in the lives of seven individuals who are searching for some personal connection that will give their lives meaning. The screenplay by Coleman Hough has an equal mix of humor and humanity as it circles around the busy lives of these people who are all involved peripherally or directly in the movie business. One of the most quaint and telling scenes involves a neighbor of Calvin's who collects his mail from the box in front of his house while wearing a Dracula outfit. It seems that some folks in Hollywood just can't let go of the roles they play.