Thursday, November 18, 2010

Rocky Horror Picture Show 3.4


Rocky Horror Picture Show

For this final project I will be writing a research paper about the musical film, “Rocky Horror Picture Show”. I have already carefully watched the film, (even though I've seen it a million times as a child) and I have also started to breakdown the film into pieces that I could explain what is really going on in the film. Its a rather long film, filled with a lot of musicals numbers (and I mean a lot of musical numbers!) Also I have started to research the old newspaper archives for reviews and what was happening in the world at that time because this film had a reputation of being very risky for its time. With that in mind I want to include the way people perceived this film at that time.

What I find interesting is that I want to include in the paper what was the heroes quest. Since this film is kind of raunchy and a comedy it may be hard to distinguish the quest but it will be very interesting to relate that with each other. Also I want to include some of the symbols and themes that are included in the film. This film has a major theme and many symbols hidden within another. So far I have just watched the film and done minimal research but I am already getting setup with more research and starting to work on this paper.

I am guessing that by 12/2 I should already have it practically done, and expecting to edit before the due date. I will be posting many sections of the paper periodically to keep the momentum of the paper interesting. So some feedback and questions while the periodic posts will help me out make it more clear and lucid.

For anticipated problems I am hoping for none, but I am already trying to edit the synopsis of the film and try not to make it so long that the reader would become bored, so currently I am trying to just focus on explaining the main parts but still capturing the film as a whole. Hopefully soon I will be able to make a post that is understandable and concise.

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