https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one The Hollywood Star System en-us 2018-01-10 20:40:53 UTC 2026-01-16 09:37:33 UTC hello@padlet.com chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220370993 I know how you feel, Jeff. Thirty years ago - I had those ideals, too. I was *you*. I had to make the decision you were asked to make today. And I compromised - yes!]]> 2018-01-10 20:03:05 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220370993 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220387945 An Introduction to Screen Idols of American cinema and analysis of Mr Smith Goes To Washington]]> 2018-01-10 20:42:55 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220387945 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220388048 By the end of the session, you will be able to discuss the importance of the American dream and the trope of the 'ordinary guy'.]]> 2018-01-10 20:43:18 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220388048 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220388149 James Stewart’s Mr Smith Goes to Washington]]> 2018-01-10 20:43:43 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220388149 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220388433 May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997]]> 2018-01-10 20:44:39 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220388433 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220388933 2018-01-10 20:46:29 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220388933 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220475162 And here was I, in the process of making a satire about government officials; a comedy about a callow, hayseed Senator who comes to Washington carrying a crate of homing pigeons—to send messages back to Ma—and disrupts important Senate deliberations with a filibuster. The cancerous tumor of war was growing the body politic, but our reform-happy hero wanted to call the world’s attention to the pimple of graft on its nose. Wasn’t this the most untimely time for me to make a film about Washington? [....]]]> 2018-01-11 08:03:00 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220475162 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220475450 I left the Lincoln Memorial with this growing conviction about our film: The more uncertain are the people of the world, the more their hard-won freedoms are scattered and lost in the winds of chance, the more they need a ringing statement of America’s democratic ideals. The soul of our film would be anchored in Lincoln. Our Jefferson Smith would be a young Abe Lincoln, tailored to the rail-splitter’s simplicity, compassion, ideals, humor, and unswerving moral courage under pressure. And back we went to Hollywood to get to work on Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The panic was over. It is never untimely to yank the rope of freedom’s bell.]]> 2018-01-11 08:04:37 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220475450 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220477560 relating to or in the style of the movies of Frank Capra, focusing on courage and its positive effects and the triumph of the underdog.]]> 2018-01-11 08:15:07 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220477560 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220496630 2018-01-11 09:30:51 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220496630 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220498275 2018-01-11 09:37:43 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220498275 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220503339 2018-01-11 09:53:12 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220503339 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220503922 2018-01-11 09:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220503922 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220504248 “The more uncertain are the people of the world, the more their hard-won freedoms are scattered and lost in the winds of chance, the more they need a ringing statement of America’s democratic ideals.”]]> 2018-01-11 09:56:19 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220504248 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220504596  two of the most reccurring subjects is selflessness and a familial sense of community.]]> 2018-01-11 09:57:30 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220504596 chrisy_dennis https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220504918 The concept of a selfless, sacrificing man caring for the needs of not only his family, but of the common people is prevalent in Mr. Smith. Capra explores the idea that caring for others comes before caring for one’s own self.]]> 2018-01-11 09:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/chrisy_dennis/Screen_idols_week_one/wish/220504918