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Our teacher got up the front as we started Snow fall on cedars and said "i don't like this book, its silly." and then proceeded to tell us why it was bad. So i've had about 35 minutes in class on my 3rd text

And after that, read them again to make sure. Seriously, once you get in an exam, the better you know the book, the easier it will to be to just write. And with an hour to write in, they expect a fair bit of writting. So, make sure you understand the texts COMPLETELY, otherwise, the markers will...

well, the values associated with the genre ARE conventions, because they are common to the genre.

Well, im with you malayz. I got 90+ for all english coming up to HSC, and was always coming first, but now im coming 4th or 5th out of 15. Damn you HSC. DAMN YOU!!!! Although i couldn't help but notice that it seems the people who use the forums are generally the smart people. :)

In many ways, using pop culture is a good thing, cause in many cases, pop culture has replaced better book becasue it IS pop culture, Snow Falling On Cedars for example. The book has crime fiction themes, but no mere than a thousand other books. But becasue it was the rave book for a while, it...

well, i had my trial today, and i actually screwed it pretty hard. we had "texts make their own truth" discuss. it was pretty shocking. but yeah, i used them all, well, actually i probably didn't, but i used a variety. The thing about the seige is that its got really obvious points, so alot of...

Yeah, i had AOS today and i've got my Modules tommorow. We do the "pathways" system, i'm only doing trials for 3 subs. But i think i'll do The Siege and Night of Nights. basically casue siege is simple and i like the night of nights.

i ont know, it just seems that doing them all is a bit "hedging you bets" and you'd be better to focus on about 3, like my teacher says to do with Gwen Harwood.

Well, it seems as though everyone else has already done their trials, but i havent, so......oh man. i am so screwed. i guess my major problem is not writing enough, and now i figured out that my teacher is kinda evil. *sigh* oh well. Oh right, the post. Well, i was wondering if anyone could shed...

psychological confoundment?

True, the point i was making was that TBS doesn't have a clear cut crime and instead has alot of crimes that aren't solved or are forgotten about. Aparently when Howard Hawkes was making the movie he was so drunk that he forgot about the Sternwood cheufur (or however you spell it). Because if...

Cheers guys, could you just say that Crime Fiction is defined by a crime and the solving of it? Because TBS doesn't really have one crime as such, more like a collection of corrupt doings.

Hey, i know this is kinda cheap, but i have half yearlies in 2 days and i'm having difficulty with defining crime fiction. How have you guys defined it? would you call The Big Sleep, Snow Falling On Cedars or The Real Inspector Hound crime fiction? I personally think that TBS is but the other...

Yeah, the player was weird. i saw him more as a "fool" in the sense of a wise/foolish, but in their production they made him really imposing and assured. i didn't really like that. and he reminded me of the penguin from batman too much.

No, but wish i was. skin of a lion is weird.

you feel stupid? what about me? its kinda embarasing when we have to watch it in class. i dunno, Mel Gibson cant really do Shakespeare. or at least since i saw Mad Max i can't take him seriously.

Oooh! my uncle is Horatio in that version. i kid you not. Stephen Dillane is his name. But i agree, the version is more boring than drying paint.

Yeah, i guess anything can be better than that Keneth Branagh version. 4 hours! I found that such a massive epic. why bother? Mr Branagh is such a show pony. The Bell Shakespear version was really good as well, aparently.

Well, its interesting actually, they had the same people do the parts, but act them really differently. R + G became really military and did everything in unison. Hamlet became....i guess more normal for a traditional hamlet, but the parents became normal. Even the players reverted to...

i agree, the play was really over-sexed, playing for a high school audience the whole way. But the Hamlet afterwards was good, actually, both were good, R + G's characters particullaly. Interesting how they did the player, really liked him. But still, that bit about "rapiers, or rape, or both at...