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[Wiggum]

Wasn't too surprised with the exam, definately fair and considering how many people thought the advanced/standard paper was very easy, this change was long overdue but fair.

 

[neeja]

im happy it was as easy as it was. i had studied different ways to prove the popularity of the genre and i used the line "conflict is more interesting than compromise" more than once. glad i was able to incorporate it

 

[Gamine]

I thought the exam was really good. Very open.
Allowed you to basically display everything you knew.
I think they did well with English exams this year.

 

[Rahul]

Originally posted by Gamine
I think they did well with Englsih exams this year.

yes! so true....pity cant say the same for maths

 

[Gamine]

Originally posted by Rahul
yes! so true....pity cant say the same for maths

Yeah, I heard everything above General was a bitch.
I do general, however, and it was easy as

 

[neeja]

the 2u maths exam was easy...it was just long, thats what everyone was bitching about. i got through the whole thing so i dont know what people are being all stupid about.

 

[Huy]

Originally posted by ladypenelope85
got a question for that crime q3, creative
one... i did it for big sleep, character vivien BUT wrote from the perspective of lauren bacall, the actress who PLAYED the character. ie, lauren telling hawks that she thinks vivien should have been portrayed more in this light, or that the plot should have gone this way, etc. is that too risky? cos it's not specifically the 'character'... lol i also signed it 'viv' so they'll b completely confused anyway.

I did the EXACT same thing as you!

*freaks out*

I used Vivian (Mrs Rutledge) as well! Speaking from Lauren Bacall's perspective and then I spoke about Marlowe's character (in terms of "my husband Humphrey" hahaha!)

I was talking to Hawks, but with subtle references to Raymond Chandler's original text. The only difference between our responses would be the plot-issue. I had talked about the focusses upon the role of the femme fatale and as Vivian's role as a red-herring, but I didn't want to change the plot, as such. (I wanted to in a way, but it's complicated to explain )

If you spoke about the character of Vivian, then I guess that should be fine, since that's what I did (fingers crossed for us! )

I did make the distinction between actor/character though.

 

[neeja]

vivien wasnt a femme fatale, nor was she a red-herring

she was the female love interest. The big sleep was basically a love story

what i did was i wrote as phillip marlowe but i completely changed the plot (although maintaining some events) and claimed it as the true sequence of events. also i made it his "confession" and made him write it 48 years after the events occured (in 2003)

 

[Huy]

Originally posted by neeja
vivien wasnt a femme fatale, nor was she a red-herring

she was the female love interest. The big sleep was basically a love story

That's not what we were taught

TBS is a hybrid genre, combining the romance genre with the classic whodunit (murder-mystery, crime fiction clue-puzzle).

True, she was the love interest, but that was my entire argument, the fact that she WAS the love interest, instead of fulfilling the role of the archetypal femme fatale.

Red-herrings are a convention of the crime-fiction genre, especially mysteries. TBS was a love story, but it is also considered to be one of the best hard-boiled detective films, "with a side of" romance (even though the ending is romantic, I still think it's a hybrid genre, moreso than one genre: the romance).

As the love interest, you would still be fulfilling the role of the femme fatale, because she is not only falling in love with Marlowe, but is seducing him and (in her role as one red herring, along with Eddie Mars and Geiger) - diverts or attempts to distract Marlowe, veering him off course (to the true story, ie the chauffeurs and their disappearance, pornography rackets, gambling debts of the Sternwood family, and so on).