Notes on Harold and Maude

• Head cut off in the beginning - could be any age, specially considering clothes
• Mother's clothes match house
• Mother domineering
• Harold's messy death obsession juxtaposed with neatness of how mother keeps house
• Dark red blood matches with furnishings
• More washed out colours around Harold
• crossed legs of therapist juxtapose with Harold's loose legs - confidence
• Cut after 'I go to funerals'  emphasizes
• Old lady sneezes and eats apple - alive and messy
•  Inside house similar colours and light to still life
• Robotic arm adds dark humour
• Harold has deathly pale complexion
• Symmetry of shots with mother in
• Suicides performed for his mother

Feet and Beats

Monometer is a one-foot line

Dimeter is a two foot line

Trimeter is a 3 foot line

Tetrameter is a four foot line

Pentameter is a five foot line

A beat can be seen as a stress which means that the number of beats is often the same as as the number of feet.

But there are more unstressed syllables in a anapestic line than a trochiac line.

Lines with the same number of stresses have the smae number of beats despite the extra syllables.

Stress Patterns

Stress is measured in feet

An iamb is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable i.e destroy

A trochee is a stressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable i.e football

An anapest consists of two unstressed syllables then a stressed syllable i.e contradict

A dactyl has a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables

Two syllable patterns are more like speech, Three syllable patterns are more 'singsongy'

Notes from 'Think of England'

Martin Parr 1999

• Begins with questions that he will asking
• Voice behind camera brings in performative element
• Immediately introduces the contrast of class - perhaps answering that Englishness is in fact based on class distinctions
• Uses people's answers to questions to raise queries eg british vs english
• Dialectic approach in way it cuts from a man saying there is no hooliganism to a different man opening a woman's coat to reveal her low cut top
• Introduces concept of Britain vs others, namely Germany the only country Britain is really able to say it rightfully invaded
• Goes from pub to posh people having an extra pimms - the same things but in a different manner
• Things like sport returned to as a uniting point for different people
• No names of places given, focusing on the people
• Interviews while they're doing something
• Begins with Southern accent, moves west, but multiple examples of accents being deceiving - not the same as where people are from necessarily
• Shots of flags in different places
• Social mobility
• Different scenes - city, country fete, beach
• Traditions eg Sunday lunch
• Gradually comes to people who define england as opposed to other countries
• Racism 'send them all back' - whiteness as part of englishness, people who were once subjects of the British empire no longer count
• This is followed by a woman saying she likes the fact that immigrants can find a home is England - multiple perspectives existing in country, neither more english than the other
• Where home is and how use nationality to define yourself
• Normal people not authorities
• Weather
• Goes to places where people gather - filming community
• Different ages
• Unity of englishness - north south divide
• capturing moments of life

Films to watch

• Risky Business
• Willow
• Terms of Endearment
• Valley Girl
• Porky's
• Brazil
• 42nd Street
• The Colour Purple
• Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
• Steel Magnolias
• Breathless
• Joyeux Noel
• Calvary
• Stand by Me
• Say Anything (Watched 6/3/2015)
• Tootsie
• Birdman
• Beijing's Bastards
• Raging Bull
• Swing Time
• Mama
• Scarface
• Jeux d'enfants
• Blade Runner
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High
• 20 feet from Stardom
• Purple Rain
• The badabook
• Desperately Seeking Susan
• Rain Man
• Frances Ha
• The Major and a Minor
• Driving Miss Daisy
• National Lampoon's Vacation
• Do The Right Thing
• Die Welle
• A Fish called Wanda
• American Gigolo
• 8 1/2
• Witness
• Weekend at Bernie's
• Dinner With Andre
• Magnolia