Ideas?
>
> FWIW I teach English in a French lyc饬 and most of my
students are
> 16-18 year old tech-oriented boys.
Phil,
You might want to bring in the conflict of cultures in this
bordertown crime story. Through Heston's screen wife (Janet
Leigh?) and the falsely accused laborer, and the use of two
languages, you get stereotypes and stereotypes reversed or
undercut. I'm reminded a bit of The Third Man (English vs
Austrian/ German).
The other thing you really should do is call attention to the
noir film techniques, the use of imagery, light and shadow,
to show how film has its own figurative language. (Start by
asking whether the film "feels" in places like a haunted
house movie.) Even Welles hugeness works in this
respect.
Let us hear how your teens react.
Bill Hagen
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