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Date Posted: 10:33:20 01/14/04 Wed
Author: Ana Carolina de Carvalho
Subject: TASK 12

This is the scene in Cast Away in which Chuck, played by Tom Hanks, has a sore tooth and decides to pull it out. I liked it because I thought it was a good choice by the director to show a n episode which would part of be everyday life having to be solved in the middle of the jungle, not comfortably (if you could really call it comfortable) at the dentist's like we would expect.

CAST AWAY by William Broyles THIRD DRAFT March 13, 1998

INT. CAVE - THE SAME DAY
The sun is setting on his darkened cave. The soccer ball sits in the corner by the black cold ashes of what was once his fire. Chuck carves a bit of coconut meat, takes a bite and winces as the meat hits his sore tooth. He tosses the shell on a small new pile of shells. Chuck shakes out the last half Tylenol tablet. He puts the tablet in his mouth, then takes a sip out of his coconut canteen. When the water hits his tooth that hurts too.
INT. CAVE - MORNING
Chuck mixes a mash of breadfruit and coconut. He tries to pack the tooth with the mash, but it's so sensitive that even this hurts. He pounds the floor of the cave in frustration. I
NT. CAVE - LATER
Chuck holds a stone chisel and his hammer stone. He positions the chisel against his inflamed tooth. But the thought of what he is about to do is too frightening. He lowers the chisel.
CHUCK
Shit. Shit. Shit.
EXT. BEACH - DAY
Chuck tries to fill his mouth with sea water. The pain is so great his eyes water.
CHUCK
Whoo, pig. Sooey!
He falls back in the water and floats there, looking up at the sky.
INT. CAVE - LATER
Determined, Chuck hold the stone chisel again. He raises it slowly to his mouth and picks up the hammer stone.
CHUCK
No pain, no gain. He brings the hammer down hard on the chisel!
The screen goes BLACK as Chuck's SCREAM continues UNDER.

1. Recommending a good film. (present good reasons)

My suggestion is that you see The Color Purple. It is not really a recent movie, it was produced in 1985 but it is worth watching it. It was directed by Steven Spielberg and based upon the book by the same name written by the African-American writer Alice Walker. Like the book, the movie tells the story of Celie, a girl who, like many other girls in the African-American culture, grows up being sexually abused by her father. She later is given to a man, whom she calls Mr.___, and he, also, abuses her - sexually, physically and verbally. Throughout her years, she comes into contact with two women (one is Mr.___'s lover and the other Mr.___'s son's wife). Their strength and the the memory of her sister (whom she thinks dead) help Celie come out her numbness making her gradually able to speak for herself. It is worth watching it because of the real-ness of the story. In the African-American tradition, themes such as sexual abuse, rejection, abandonment and silence are recurrent and the movie is a portray of some of the things black girls/women undergo in racist America.

2. Advising us not to see a film. (say why)

The movie I would not recommend seeing is Independence Day. I went to see it when it was released in the United States in 1995 or 1996 (I'm not sure). I was amazed at how everybody in the theater stood up and clapped at such film. I would not recommend it because of the series of absurdities and appraisal to the United States. Nothing against the country, but those who have seen it would have to agree with me that the alien invasion being combatted almost exclusively by one man (Will Smith) - an American, by the way - is by least a joke. It is insulting to watch a movie in which the United States, or the Americans, are the only ones able to save the world.

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Re: TASK 12 -- Vera, 16:06:23 01/15/04 Thu
- Re: TASK 12 -- Ana Carolina, 05:28:41 01/16/04 Fri