I was very proud of myself, thinking up watching M*A*S*H for my term paper. The one thing that I hadn’t counted on was the note taking process. With books, you highlight or copy and paste, or whatever. With a movie, you have to rewind over and over again to get the lines transcribed perfectly. This wouldn’t be a problem with most movies whose scripts are available online. However, since it’s a Robert Altman film, there was a lot of improv, and the script available online bears little relation to what was happening on the screen in the end.
I have seven pages of notes, and although the film is only 116 minutes, it took me about three and a half hours to watch the whole thing. Still massively entertaining, and better than reading a monograph, but not as easy as I had thought it would be. And I still have to watch about five episodes. If this were Twitter, I would totally tag this post #firstworldproblems.
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Did you have the option to turn on captions? Sometimes that helps.
All of our graduate courses should be so hard.
Janice~ I never even thought of doing that. Duh!
Vince~You’re just jealous.
Janice is a genius!
Grace~She is! I’ma blog about how much of a genius she is!
Haha. And sometimes you get really crazy captions that are more fun than the show itself. I was watching one show where they were talking about werewolves (aka lycanthropes) but they were using a shortened version of the term. The caption called them “lichens”.
So I was amused by the thought of shape-shifting fungus plants for the rest of the movie.