understanding movies

After watching the George Méliès’ film A Trip to the Moon (1902) think about the differences and similarities between how you believed someone would had processed that movie then emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually (among numerous ways) and how you processed the last “big event” or blockbuster movie you saw. Tell us what you think are different and similar.

Going beyond the entertainment value of a non-documentary movie, what other value do you get out of seeing movie?

Reference specific vocabulary and concepts from the Course Content to describe what you observed.

Respond to at least two of your classmates.

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A trip to the moon is a movie by George Melies that was made in 1902. The film talks about a group of persons that agreed to take a visit to the moon and did so (Melies, 1902). How one would have processed the movie emotionally depends on the association the person has with the film itself.

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