Princess Bride

Class,

Remember, we will be watching The Princess Bride in class this week, so try to arrive a little earlier than usual. We can start the film around 12:45, so fifteen minutes early should be fine. Now, we've discussed literature and rhetoric for most of this class, and I want to see if you consider film to be literary, and if so, are they using any specific rhetorical moves? A couple of things to consider with this particular film: Does this film follow the Hero's Journey? If so, how? Which elements do they leave out? Second: Do fairy tales have any merit? Or should we stop telling them and focus more on realistic stories?

Feel free to bring in any movie candy you like. I have some popcorn. :)