Sara León (1ºB) and Itziar Romera (1ºE) Pleasantville
Film title: Pleasantville Director: Gary Ross Screenplay: Gary Ross Starring: Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen Cinema Release Date: 1998 Certificate: 12
The 1998 film Pleasantville, directed by Gary Ross and starring Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon, is a story which comments on social change, passion and prejudice. It begins when a super-charged TV remote control zaps twins David and Jennifer from the reality of their normal 90s life into the set and family of the hyper-perfect 'Pleasantville', a black and white 1950s TV show where everyone and everything is, well, 'pleasant'.
After watching the film, answer the following questions: 1. What is life in Pleasantville like at the beginning of the film? It was a perfect life, without changes at all and routine. It is quite boring because everything is beautifull and there's nothing bad or wrong. There didn't exist fire and they have never miseed a ball into the basket. 2. Why do you think everything in Pleasantville is black and white? Because people don't express themselves and the strong and real feelings, like love, hate, anger and lust don't exist at all. 3. How do David and Jennifer adapt to their new life? David tried to follow the Pleasantville's rules and Jennifer did the opposite, she continued like the one she was in the real world and finally they changed into colour beacuse they couldn't hide their feelings. 4. When and why does colour appear in Pleasantville for the first time? When jennifer have sex with the capitan of the basketball team and he discover a new feeling and a rose turns into red. 5. Why are “coloured” people in Pleasantville discriminated against? Because pleasantville used to be non-colored place and as they are different, they are kind of afraid of them. 6. How do the people in the community react to the changes that are taking place? They want to stop the changes and make new laws, as prohibite music and art. 7. How does the film explore feminism and women’s liberation? That it defense that woman have to express their feelings it shows the breaking of the steriotype that the women have to stay at home at make the dineer for her husband and the men only have to work on their jobs and not at home. 8. Do you think Pleasantville is a better place to live in at the end of the film? Why? For us, is not the best place to live because it's too boring and you couldn't do whatever you wanted because everything was imposed by the law. 9. Finally, what do you think the underlying message behind the film is? That there is not a right way of living, or feeling or behaveour. You have to live your life as you want and don't think about what you should or shouldn't do.
After watching the film, answer the following questions: 1. What is life in Pleasantville like at the beginning of the film? Every thing is the same, perfect. No emotions, no adventures.
2. Why do you think everything in Pleasantville is black and white? Because there’s no feelings and emotions, and colours represent them. So there are no colours.
3. How do David and Jennifer adapt to their new life? At the beginning they are so lost but then they start making people think, feel and to let them act themselves.
4. When and why does colour appear in Pleasantville for the first time? when Jennifer has sex with her boyfriend, a red rose appears in a rosebush.
5. Why are “coloured” people in Pleasantville discriminated against? Because they are different from non coloured ones, like in the secession war.
6. How do the people in the community react to the changes that are taking place? They react against them destroying locals and punishing them but at the end non coloured people turn in colour.
7. How does the film explore feminism and women’s liberation? Through bud’s mother. She discovers sex and them she leave her husband.
8. Do you think Pleasantville is a better place to live in at the end of the film? Why? Yes, because it looks more like the real world.
9. Finally, what do you think the underlying message behind the film is? We think the underlying message is that people change and everyone needs feelings to be a person.
After watching the film, answer the following questions: 1. What is life in Pleasantville like at the beginning of the film? Everything was in black and white, the life there was perfect; without rain, fire... , everyone was respectful with each other and there wasn't sex acts. 2. Why do you think everything in Pleasantville is black and white? Because they are equals and they don't know how to express feelings using colours. 3. How do David and Jennifer adapt to their new life? David addaps himself well because he tries to do what it's supose to happen in the show. But Jennifer does what she wants without respecting the rules of Pleasentville. 4. When and why does colour appear in Pleasantville for the first time? When Jennifer has sex with a boy and he begins to feel, so he sees a red rose in a garden. 5. Why are “coloured” people in Pleasantville discriminated against? Because it's not the normal thing they are used to and they are changing their personality. 6. How do the people in the community react to the changes that are taking place? Some people like it and they become coloured but others thinks that the changes are wrong and they are angry, so they stay in black and white. 7. How does the film explore feminism and women’s liberation? In Pleasentville women work at home cooking and cleaning but when the mother leaves the house, Bed tries to convince his father ( the judge) that he loves the personality of his wife and not what she do for him. 8. Do you think Pleasantville is a better place to live in at the end of the film? Why? Yes, because they are more free to express their feelings using colours and they can go to other places. 9. Finally, what do you think the underlying message behind the film is The perfection is relative to everyone. One person can live in one way that he or she thinks that its perfect but for other person it's not his or her perfect life.
GUZMAN GARCIA AND IVÁN MONTERO After watching the film, answer the following questions:
1. What is life in Pleasantville like at the beginning of the film? It was always the same thing (everyone do always the same things in the same order) and everything was black and white.
2. Why do you think everything in Pleasantville is black and white? Because black and white was the colour of the 50's and in this epoch the expression freedom was limitated.
3. How do David and Jennifer adapt to their new life? At the beginning David addapt well because he knew the serie and he knew how to rehearse but Jennifer don't. Then due to their acts everything went coloured and they get used to live there quickly.
4. When and why does colour appear in Pleasantville for the first time? When Jennifer and the basketball team captain have sex at the lover's lane.
5. Why are “coloured” people in Pleasantville discriminated against? They were discriminated because they were different, like racism is.
6. How do the people in the community react to the changes that are taking place? They don't like them, they want everything like it was and they try to suppress the different acts with laws.
7. How does the film explore feminism and women’s liberation? Before the changes at pleasantville the women were always cleaning and cooking because in that epoch the thoughts of the people were like that (the women at home, the men at work). After the changes at pleasantville everything was like nowadays (women can work and do the same things as men do)
8. Do you think Pleasantville is a better place to live in at the end of the film? Why? Yes, because now people can think by themselfs and don't have to do always the same, in the same boring way...
9. Finally, what do you think the underlying message behind the film is? Women liberation and racism.
After watching the film, answer the following questions: 1. What is life in Pleasantville like at the beginning of the film? It's perfect and that turns it into a boring life. 2. Why do you think everything in Pleasantville is black and white? Because they are not free at all to do whatever they want and they haven't learnt how to be theirselves. 3. How do David and Jennifer adapt to their new life? They behaved like in their normal life and they help other people to behave like normal people. 4. When and why does colour appear in Pleasantville for the first time? One night they went to the lovers' lane, where they have fun and sex like rabbits. 5. Why are “coloured” people in Pleasantville discriminated against? Because uncoloured inhabitants think they are rebellious and dangerous people. 6. How do the people in the community react to the changes that are taking place? They feel afraid of turning in colour and they try to avoid them. 7. How does the film explore feminism and women’s liberation? In the way that women are discriminated to be working as servants at home. 8. Do you think Pleasantville is a better place to live in at the end of the film? Why? We think so, because they finish being free an normal people. 9. Finally, what do you think the underlying message behind the film is? Everybody have a hided side in themselves which must be showed.
Film title: Pleasantville Director: Gary Ross Screenplay: Gary Ross Starring: Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen Cinema Release Date: 1998 Certificate: 12
The 1998 film Pleasantville, directed by Gary Ross and starring Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon, is a story which comments on social change, passion and prejudice. It begins when a super-charged TV remote control zaps twins David and Jennifer from the reality of their normal 90s life into the set and family of the hyper-perfect 'Pleasantville', a black and white 1950s TV show where everyone and everything is, well, 'pleasant'.
After watching the film, answer the following questions: 1. What is life in Pleasantville like at the beginning of the film?
Life in Pleasantville was perfect. Love doesn't exist, the women have to stay at home and make everything to their husbands. All was in black and white. All was perfect because there wasn't problems, fights and crimes.
2. Why do you think everything in Pleasantville is black and white?
Because people don't have feelings.
3. How do David and Jennifer adapt to their new life?
Because David knows all of Pleasantville story thanks to the TV series that he always watch. So they relate what happend with the chapter in the TV series.
4. When and why does colour appear in Pleasantville for the first time?
The colour appear in Pleasantville for the firts time when Maryesue's boyfriend fall in love with her.
5. Why are “coloured” people in Pleasantville discriminated against?
Because they fell things that in Pleasantville where not allow. Like love. So they were afraid of them and the changeses they can make there.
6. How do the people in the community react to the changes that are taking place?
They started brake things and burnt books because they were not allow and have a lot of colours.
7. How does the film explore feminism and women’s liberation?
When one day the dad of the family ccame at home there was no dinner in the table and in the oven too. They used women for do all men things.
8. Do you think Pleasantville is a better place to live in at the end of the film? Why? It's the same that the place where lived David and Jennyfer because at the end of the film the meet allthe things that David and Jennifer knew when they enter to Pleasantville.
9. Finally, what do you think the underlying message behind the film is?
Pleasantville JESÚS MARÍA LEZAUN AND ASIER MENCHÓN.
After watching the film, answer the following questions: 1. What is life in Pleasantville like at the beginning of the film? The life in Pleasantville is perfect. 2. Why do you think everything in Pleasantville is black and white? Because the people at the begining didin`t have feelings 3. How do David and Jennifer adapt to their new life? At the begining there were surprised and didn´t believe in it, but after days they changed their feelings and adapted very well. 4. When and why does colour appear in Pleasantville for the first time? When they started to feel. The first time that the colour appeared was when Jennifer and the basketball captaitain had sex in the car. 5. Why are “coloured” people in Pleasantville discriminated against? Because people in black and white thought that people with colour were a threat for them. 6. How do the people in the community react to the changes that are taking place? They were afraid ofpeople with colours and they discriminate it. 7. How does the film explore feminism and women’s liberation?
8. Do you think Pleasantville is a better place to live in at the end of the film? Why? Yes because the perfection is boring and at the end of the film people could feel. 9. Finally, what do you think the underlying message behind the film is? We think that you should live without perfections .
Pleasantville Sacha & Pablo Film title: Pleasantville Director: Gary Ross Screenplay: Gary Ross Starring: Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen Cinema Release Date: 1998 Certificate: 12
The 1998 film Pleasantville, directed by Gary Ross and starring Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon, is a story which comments on social change, passion and prejudice. It begins when a super-charged TV remote control zaps twins David and Jennifer from the reality of their normal 90s life into the set and family of the hyper-perfect 'Pleasantville', a black and white 1950s TV show where everyone and everything is, well, 'pleasant'.
After watching the film, answer the following questions: 1. What is life in Pleasantville like at the beginning of the film? The life it´s periodic, every day happend the same things, all is perfect. 2. Why do you think everything in Pleasantville is black and white? Because every thing is the same and there are no diferences 3. How do David and Jennifer adapt to their new life? At first Jennifer, refuses to her new life but after time she loves to live like that life. David loves his new life because he is not a “noob”, but finaly he returnded to his real life. 4. When and why does colour appear in Pleasantville for the first time? When they do things that are not common, it appears before Jennifer and the basketball team captain had sex 5. Why are “coloured” people in Pleasantville discriminated against? Because they´re different of the common people of the village 6. How do the people in the community react to the changes that are taking place? They are horror, because the never has any changes on their lifes, they atack to the people who changes. 7. How does the film explore feminism and women’s liberation? At first women arelike slaves of their husband but after that they were free to have a jod or do what they want 8. Do you think Pleasantville is a better place to live in at the end of the film? Why? Yes, because it becomes normal 9. Finally, what do you think the underlying message behind the film is? There´s no pleasant life, and we have to treat the people as the same
PLEASANTVILLE Irati Tristan and Ashita Guembe 1º Bto. D
1. The life in Pleasantville is perfect because there are not emotions, feelings and everything is written in the script and everybody have to follow it. 2. Pleasantville is in black and white because everything is neutral and no one can go out of the order of life, is a controlled life. 3. They have to pretend that they're the characters of the film but later they start to change the order of everything. 4. The first time appeared in a red rose and it happens after Jennifer and basketball captain stay together in Lover's Lane. 5. They're discriminated because they break the script and everything starts to change and it's not perfect. 6. At first they thought that those things would be change in a few time but when they noticed that everything was changing too much they started making laws forbidding some activities. 7. The film reflect that the women have to stay at home cooking dinner and tidying the house and later they started doing some things that women couldn't do. 8. Yes, Pleasantville is a better place to live at the end of the film because there's more liberty of doing some stuffs that at the beginning no one could do it. 9. The underlying message want to say that anyone can't say to you what to do or think, you're free.
1) At the beginning of the film, life in Pleasantville was perfect, anybody get angry, there aren´t feelings, love, sex, colours, emotions, arts, literature, dangers, changes... 2) Everything in Pleasantville is black and white to make everyone equal and no diferent. 3) At first, Jennifer was confused, because she didn´t know nothing about Pleasantville, but her brother was happy because he knew everything about the TV programme. 4) The colour appeared when Jennifer and her boyfriend had sex, and then, when the boy leaved Jennifer at home, he saw a red rose. 5) Because people that are stil black and white think that coloured people have done something impure or something that is not usual in Pleasantville. 6) Some people react well, they said that changes are better for the comunity, because the can learn new things and discover other things. Other people react bad, they said that they don´t need changes, and they don´t accept that.
7) In Pleasantville, there is a lot of machism, beacuse when the husband return home after work, the wife mus have prepared dinner and everything must be perfect at home. 8) Yes, because everything has changed, now there are colours, sex, literature, people have feelings, they cried, there is fire and people are happy and there are love. 9) We Think that is better top live in a life with imperfections and emotions and in a place where people haven´t predestinated lifes and could have their own thoughts and everything is not perfect.
1. It was all perfect, without feelings, emotion,colours, danger, fire, rain,art, literature, also without other cities or countries. 2. Because everything is neutral without emotions. 3. They actually didn't adapt to this new life they just change town's life. 4. When Marie Sue (Jennifer) has sex with the basketball team captain, so emotions appear and this boy saw for the first time a red rouse, real read. 5. Just because they are different. 6. They are shoked and they want that everything change again and be perfect. But are some people that like this changes they think that in this way is better. 7. Women aren't required to stay all day at home, cooking and making all this stuff that women supoused to do, in the film men are shoked when women, strart to read or thinking or not being at home at the dinner. 8. Depends on your personality, if you want a perfect place, without emotions, everybody is happy and no danger, but may you prefer a real place to live, like me... 9. The underlying message of the film is that like it or not no one can stop the changes in society
1.Life in Pleasantville was perfect. Love doesn't exist, the women have to stay at home and make everything to their husbands. All was in black and white. All was perfect because there wasn't problems, fights and crimes.
2.Because people don't have feelings.
3.Because David knows all of Pleasantville story thanks to the TV series that he always watch.So they relate what happend with the chapter in the TV series.
4.The colour appear in Pleasantville for the firts time when Maryesue's boyfriend fall in love with her.
5.The colour appear in Pleasantville for the firts time when Maryesue's boyfriend fall in love with her.
6.They started brake things and burnt books because they were not allow and have a lot of colours.
7.When one day the dad of the family ccame at home there was no dinner in the table and in the oven too. They used women for do all men things.
8.It's the same that the place where lived David and Jennyfer because at the end of the film the meet allthe things that David and Jennifer knew when they enter to Pleasantville.
9.That a live whit out feelings doesn't have seens.
1-At the begining of the film life in the village of Pleasantville everything was perfect. There aren´t feelings : sex, love,colours and emotions. 2-Because there aren´t emotions or problems to make everyone equal and there aren´t any types of differences. 3-They adapted quikly , at first they felt wierd but then they developed well the history. 4-The colour appeared when they had sex and after the boy left the girl at home and he saw a red rose . 5-They were discriminated against because they break the pleasantville rules and the laws. 6-The young people react good and the mayor and old people didn´t like it and some react agressive. 7-There is a lot of machism. 8-Yes because they have freedom. 9-Is better an imperfect world than a perfect one.
After watching the film, answer the following questions: 1. What is life in Pleasantville like at the beginning of the film?
All is perfect, no love, no sex, no emotions, the husbands worked while the wives stayed at home and cooked and cleaned.
2. Why do you think everything in Pleasantville is black and white?
All is in black and white cause all is perfect, so there isn´t emotions, danger, no sex , no love, no fire..etc.
3. How do David and Jennifer adapt to their new life?
David at begining seemed to be adapting very well, however later in the film he starts to change and not act like he should and Jennifer at beginig doesn´t adapt very well and she starts to change the people and their customs.
4. When and why does colour appear in Pleasantville for the first time? When Spike drops Jennifer off after they had gone up to lovers lane, he sees a rose and it is red. The color appears because he starts to have feelings for Jennifer.
5. Why are “coloured” people in Pleasantville discriminated against? Because people of pleasantville don´t like change and coloured people are causing changes such as the rain, the big bed for two persons and the fire and the basktball team starts to lose all the games.
6. How do the people in the community react to the changes that are taking place? The husbands are very angry and do not like these changes and they right a new document to give more rules on how to stop changes. Some stores wouldn´t let colored people in. The teenagers however love the changes and they are happy when they become colored.
7. How does the film explore feminism and women’s liberation?
When for example Jennifer goes to university and it explores women´s liberation when the mom decides to go out and be happy and won´t serve her husband anymore, that is an example.
8. Do you think Pleasantville is a better place to live in at the end of the film? Why?
Karen: i think yes cause is a real life cause nothing is perfect. Katie: I think it is better because people are now allowed to feel and they can have fun and it is better to live in a place with color and feeling than a perfect place without that. 9. Finally, what do you think the underlying message behind the film is?
The underlying message is that it is better and more fufilling to live an imperfect life with feelings and colors than to live a perfect life without colors and feelings
Film title: Pleasantville Director: Gary Ross Screenplay: Gary Ross Starring: Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen Cinema Release Date: 1998 Certificate: 12
The 1998 film Pleasantville, directed by Gary Ross and starring Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon, is a story which comments on social change, passion and prejudice. It begins when a super-charged TV remote control zaps twins David and Jennifer from the reality of their normal 90s life into the set and family of the hyper-perfect 'Pleasantville', a black and white 1950s TV show where everyone and everything is, well, 'pleasant'.
After watching the film, answer the following questions: 1. What is life in Pleasantville like at the beginning of the film? It looks perfect, there is not trouble, no love, no fights, no criminals... Everything is perfect.
2. Why do you think everything in Pleasantville is black and white? Because there are no feelings, people don't love, don't get angry...etc, so nothing has colours. 3. How do David and Jennifer adapt to their new life? Learning about the people of the village. At first, they behave like the other people, but later, they will act as they did in her first village, so the life in Pleasantville starts to change and deep feeling. 4. When and why does colour appear in Pleasantville for the first time? In Lovers Lane, when Bud's sister have sex for the first time with a boy of Pleasantville, a rose becames red. 5. Why are “coloured” people in Pleasantville discriminated against? Because they met the new experience of loving or doing new things in Pleasantville. 6. How do the people in the community react to the changes that are taking place? They are afraid of what they don't know. 7. How does the film explore feminism and women’s liberation? They use women to cook and to take care of the house while the men go to work. They are not free. 8. Do you think Pleasantville is a better place to live in at the end of the film? Why? Yes because you can go out of the village and there are colors and feelings now. 9. Finally, what do you think the underlying message behind the film is? Women are undervalued: men think that women only can do the house's works, as cleaning, cooking... But at the end, we can see how they go out of home and work outside. Men start to work in the house. But in our opinion, the main message is that a world without feelings like love or heat, would have no sense.
1. What is life in Pleasantville like at the beginning of the film? It looks perfect, there is not trouble, no love, no fights, no criminals... Everything is perfect.
2. Why do you think everything in Pleasantville is black and white? Because there are no feelings, people don't love, don't get angry...etc, so nothing has colours. 3. How do David and Jennifer adapt to their new life? Learning about the people of the village. At first, they behave like the other people, but later, they will act as they did in her first village, so the life in Pleasantville starts to change and deep feeling. 4. When and why does colour appear in Pleasantville for the first time? In Lovers Lane, when Bud's sister have sex for the first time with a boy of Pleasantville, a rose becames red. 5. Why are “coloured” people in Pleasantville discriminated against? Because they met the new experience of loving or doing new things in Pleasantville. 6. How do the people in the community react to the changes that are taking place? They are afraid of what they don't know. 7. How does the film explore feminism and women’s liberation? They use women to cook and to take care of the house while the men go to work. They are not free. 8. Do you think Pleasantville is a better place to live in at the end of the film? Why? Yes because you can go out of the village and there are colors and feelings now. 9. Finally, what do you think the underlying message behind the film is? Women are undervalued: men think that women only can do the house's works, as cleaning, cooking... But at the end, we can see how they go out of home and work outside. Men start to work in the house. But in our opinion, the main message is that a world without feelings like love or heat, would have no sense.
Sara León (1ºB) and Itziar Romera (1ºE)
ReplyDeletePleasantville
Film title: Pleasantville
Director: Gary Ross
Screenplay: Gary Ross
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen
Cinema Release Date: 1998
Certificate: 12
The 1998 film Pleasantville, directed by Gary Ross and starring Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon, is a story which comments on social change, passion and prejudice. It begins when a super-charged TV remote control zaps twins David and Jennifer from the reality of their normal 90s life into the set and family of the hyper-perfect 'Pleasantville', a black and white 1950s TV show where everyone and everything is, well, 'pleasant'.
After watching the film, answer the following questions:
1. What is life in Pleasantville like at the beginning of the film?
It was a perfect life, without changes at all and routine. It is quite boring because everything is beautifull and there's nothing bad or wrong. There didn't exist fire and they have never miseed a ball into the basket.
2. Why do you think everything in Pleasantville is black and white?
Because people don't express themselves and the strong and real feelings, like love, hate, anger and lust don't exist at all.
3. How do David and Jennifer adapt to their new life?
David tried to follow the Pleasantville's rules and Jennifer did the opposite, she continued like the one she was in the real world and finally they changed into colour beacuse they couldn't hide their feelings.
4. When and why does colour appear in Pleasantville for the first time?
When jennifer have sex with the capitan of the basketball team and he discover a new feeling and a rose turns into red.
5. Why are “coloured” people in Pleasantville discriminated against?
Because pleasantville used to be non-colored place and as they are different, they are kind of afraid of them.
6. How do the people in the community react to the changes that are taking place?
They want to stop the changes and make new laws, as prohibite music and art.
7. How does the film explore feminism and women’s liberation?
That it defense that woman have to express their feelings it shows the breaking of the steriotype that the women have to stay at home at make the dineer for her husband and the men only have to work on their jobs and not at home.
8. Do you think Pleasantville is a better place to live in at the end of the film? Why?
For us, is not the best place to live because it's too boring and you couldn't do whatever you wanted because everything was imposed by the law.
9. Finally, what do you think the underlying message behind the film is?
That there is not a right way of living, or feeling or behaveour. You have to live your life as you want and don't think about what you should or shouldn't do.
After watching the film, answer the following questions:
ReplyDelete1. What is life in Pleasantville like at the beginning of the film?
Every thing is the same, perfect. No emotions, no adventures.
2. Why do you think everything in Pleasantville is black and white?
Because there’s no feelings and emotions, and colours represent them. So there are no colours.
3. How do David and Jennifer adapt to their new life?
At the beginning they are so lost but then they start making people think, feel and to let them act themselves.
4. When and why does colour appear in Pleasantville for the first time?
when Jennifer has sex with her boyfriend, a red rose appears in a rosebush.
5. Why are “coloured” people in Pleasantville discriminated against?
Because they are different from non coloured ones, like in the secession war.
6. How do the people in the community react to the changes that are taking place?
They react against them destroying locals and punishing them but at the end non coloured people turn in colour.
7. How does the film explore feminism and women’s liberation?
Through bud’s mother. She discovers sex and them she leave her husband.
8. Do you think Pleasantville is a better place to live in at the end of the film? Why?
Yes, because it looks more like the real world.
9. Finally, what do you think the underlying message behind the film is?
We think the underlying message is that people change and everyone needs feelings to be a person.
Miguel and Carlos 1ºB Bto
MARINA GALDEANO AND PATRICIA ESPARZA
ReplyDeleteAfter watching the film, answer the following questions:
1. What is life in Pleasantville like at the beginning of the film?
Everything was in black and white, the life there was perfect; without rain, fire... , everyone was respectful with each other and there wasn't sex acts.
2. Why do you think everything in Pleasantville is black and white?
Because they are equals and they don't know how to express feelings using colours.
3. How do David and Jennifer adapt to their new life?
David addaps himself well because he tries to do what it's supose to happen in the show. But Jennifer does what she wants without respecting the rules of Pleasentville.
4. When and why does colour appear in Pleasantville for the first time?
When Jennifer has sex with a boy and he begins to feel, so he sees a red rose in a garden.
5. Why are “coloured” people in Pleasantville discriminated against?
Because it's not the normal thing they are used to and they are changing their personality.
6. How do the people in the community react to the changes that are taking place?
Some people like it and they become coloured but others thinks that the changes are wrong and they are angry, so they stay in black and white.
7. How does the film explore feminism and women’s liberation?
In Pleasentville women work at home cooking and cleaning but when the mother leaves the house, Bed tries to convince his father ( the judge) that he loves the personality of his wife and not what she do for him.
8. Do you think Pleasantville is a better place to live in at the end of the film? Why?
Yes, because they are more free to express their feelings using colours and they can go to other places.
9. Finally, what do you think the underlying message behind the film is
The perfection is relative to everyone. One person can live in one way that he or she thinks that its perfect but for other person it's not his or her perfect life.
GUZMAN GARCIA AND IVÁN MONTERO
ReplyDeleteAfter watching the film, answer the following questions:
1. What is life in Pleasantville like at the beginning of the film?
It was always the same thing (everyone do always the same things in the same order) and everything was black and white.
2. Why do you think everything in Pleasantville is black and white?
Because black and white was the colour of the 50's and in this epoch the expression freedom was limitated.
3. How do David and Jennifer adapt to their new life?
At the beginning David addapt well because he knew the serie and he knew how to rehearse but Jennifer don't. Then due to their acts everything went coloured and they get used to live there quickly.
4. When and why does colour appear in Pleasantville for the first time?
When Jennifer and the basketball team captain have sex at the lover's lane.
5. Why are “coloured” people in Pleasantville discriminated against?
They were discriminated because they were different, like racism is.
6. How do the people in the community react to the changes that are taking place?
They don't like them, they want everything like it was and they try to suppress the different acts with laws.
7. How does the film explore feminism and women’s liberation?
Before the changes at pleasantville the women were always cleaning and cooking because in that epoch the thoughts of the people were like that (the women at home, the men at work). After the changes at pleasantville everything was like nowadays (women can work and do the same things as men do)
8. Do you think Pleasantville is a better place to live in at the end of the film? Why?
Yes, because now people can think by themselfs and don't have to do always the same, in the same boring way...
9. Finally, what do you think the underlying message behind the film is?
Women liberation and racism.
Emanuel Hinojosa and Juan Gangoiti
ReplyDeleteAfter watching the film, answer the following questions:
1. What is life in Pleasantville like at the beginning of the film?
It's perfect and that turns it into a boring life.
2. Why do you think everything in Pleasantville is black and white?
Because they are not free at all to do whatever they want and they haven't learnt how to be theirselves.
3. How do David and Jennifer adapt to their new life?
They behaved like in their normal life and they help other people to behave like normal people.
4. When and why does colour appear in Pleasantville for the first time?
One night they went to the lovers' lane, where they have fun and sex like rabbits.
5. Why are “coloured” people in Pleasantville discriminated against?
Because uncoloured inhabitants think they are rebellious and dangerous people.
6. How do the people in the community react to the changes that are taking place?
They feel afraid of turning in colour and they try to avoid them.
7. How does the film explore feminism and women’s liberation?
In the way that women are discriminated to be working as servants at home.
8. Do you think Pleasantville is a better place to live in at the end of the film? Why?
We think so, because they finish being free an normal people.
9. Finally, what do you think the underlying message behind the film is?
Everybody have a hided side in themselves which must be showed.
Maria Oses- Claudia Iturbide Pleasantville
ReplyDeleteFilm title: Pleasantville
Director: Gary Ross
Screenplay: Gary Ross
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen
Cinema Release Date: 1998
Certificate: 12
The 1998 film Pleasantville, directed by Gary Ross and starring Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon, is a story which comments on social change, passion and prejudice. It begins when a super-charged TV remote control zaps twins David and Jennifer from the reality of their normal 90s life into the set and family of the hyper-perfect 'Pleasantville', a black and white 1950s TV show where everyone and everything is, well, 'pleasant'.
After watching the film, answer the following questions:
1. What is life in Pleasantville like at the beginning of the film?
Life in Pleasantville was perfect. Love doesn't exist, the women have to stay at home and make everything to their husbands.
All was in black and white. All was perfect because there wasn't problems, fights and crimes.
2. Why do you think everything in Pleasantville is black and white?
Because people don't have feelings.
3. How do David and Jennifer adapt to their new life?
Because David knows all of Pleasantville story thanks to the TV series that he always watch.
So they relate what happend with the chapter in the TV series.
4. When and why does colour appear in Pleasantville for the first time?
The colour appear in Pleasantville for the firts time when Maryesue's boyfriend fall in love with her.
5. Why are “coloured” people in Pleasantville discriminated against?
Because they fell things that in Pleasantville where not allow. Like love.
So they were afraid of them and the changeses they can make there.
6. How do the people in the community react to the changes that are taking place?
They started brake things and burnt books because they were not allow and have a lot of colours.
7. How does the film explore feminism and women’s liberation?
When one day the dad of the family ccame at home there was no dinner in the table and in the oven too.
They used women for do all men things.
8. Do you think Pleasantville is a better place to live in at the end of the film? Why?
It's the same that the place where lived David and Jennyfer because at the end of the film the meet allthe things that David and Jennifer knew when they enter to Pleasantville.
9. Finally, what do you think the underlying message behind the film is?
That a live whit out feelings doesn't have seens.
Pleasantville
ReplyDeleteJESÚS MARÍA LEZAUN AND ASIER MENCHÓN.
After watching the film, answer the following questions:
1. What is life in Pleasantville like at the beginning of the film?
The life in Pleasantville is perfect.
2. Why do you think everything in Pleasantville is black and white?
Because the people at the begining didin`t have feelings
3. How do David and Jennifer adapt to their new life?
At the begining there were surprised and didn´t believe in it, but after days they changed their feelings and adapted very well.
4. When and why does colour appear in Pleasantville for the first time?
When they started to feel. The first time that the colour appeared was when Jennifer and the basketball captaitain had sex in the car.
5. Why are “coloured” people in Pleasantville discriminated against?
Because people in black and white thought that people with colour were a threat for them.
6. How do the people in the community react to the changes that are taking place?
They were afraid ofpeople with colours and they discriminate it.
7. How does the film explore feminism and women’s liberation?
8. Do you think Pleasantville is a better place to live in at the end of the film? Why?
Yes because the perfection is boring and at the end of the film people could feel.
9. Finally, what do you think the underlying message behind the film is?
We think that you should live without perfections .
Pleasantville
ReplyDeleteSacha & Pablo
Film title: Pleasantville
Director: Gary Ross
Screenplay: Gary Ross
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen
Cinema Release Date: 1998
Certificate: 12
The 1998 film Pleasantville, directed by Gary Ross and starring Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon, is a story which comments on social change, passion and prejudice. It begins when a super-charged TV remote control zaps twins David and Jennifer from the reality of their normal 90s life into the set and family of the hyper-perfect 'Pleasantville', a black and white 1950s TV show where everyone and everything is, well, 'pleasant'.
After watching the film, answer the following questions:
1. What is life in Pleasantville like at the beginning of the film?
The life it´s periodic, every day happend the same things, all is perfect.
2. Why do you think everything in Pleasantville is black and white?
Because every thing is the same and there are no diferences
3. How do David and Jennifer adapt to their new life?
At first Jennifer, refuses to her new life but after time she loves to live like that life. David loves his new life because he is not a “noob”, but finaly he returnded to his real life.
4. When and why does colour appear in Pleasantville for the first time?
When they do things that are not common, it appears before Jennifer and the basketball team captain had sex
5. Why are “coloured” people in Pleasantville discriminated against?
Because they´re different of the common people of the village
6. How do the people in the community react to the changes that are taking place?
They are horror, because the never has any changes on their lifes, they atack to the people who changes.
7. How does the film explore feminism and women’s liberation?
At first women arelike slaves of their husband but after that they were free to have a jod or do what they want
8. Do you think Pleasantville is a better place to live in at the end of the film? Why?
Yes, because it becomes normal
9. Finally, what do you think the underlying message behind the film is?
There´s no pleasant life, and we have to treat the people as the same
PLEASANTVILLE Irati Tristan and Ashita Guembe 1º Bto. D
ReplyDelete1. The life in Pleasantville is perfect because there are not emotions, feelings and everything is written in the script and everybody have to follow it.
2. Pleasantville is in black and white because everything is neutral and no one can go out of the order of life, is a controlled life.
3. They have to pretend that they're the characters of the film but later they start to change the order of everything.
4. The first time appeared in a red rose and it happens after Jennifer and basketball captain stay together in Lover's Lane.
5. They're discriminated because they break the script and everything starts to change and it's not perfect.
6. At first they thought that those things would be change in a few time but when they noticed that everything was changing too much they started making laws forbidding some activities.
7. The film reflect that the women have to stay at home cooking dinner and tidying the house and later they started doing some things that women couldn't do.
8. Yes, Pleasantville is a better place to live at the end of the film because there's more liberty of doing some stuffs that at the beginning no one could do it.
9. The underlying message want to say that anyone can't say to you what to do or think, you're free.
María Recalde and Ana Huguet 1ºD
ReplyDelete1) At the beginning of the film, life in Pleasantville was perfect, anybody get angry, there aren´t feelings, love, sex, colours, emotions, arts, literature, dangers, changes...
2) Everything in Pleasantville is black and white to make everyone equal and no diferent.
3) At first, Jennifer was confused, because she didn´t know nothing about Pleasantville, but her brother was happy because he knew everything about the TV programme.
4) The colour appeared when Jennifer and her boyfriend had sex, and then, when the boy leaved Jennifer at home, he saw a red rose.
5) Because people that are stil black and white think that coloured people have done something impure or something that is not usual in Pleasantville.
6) Some people react well, they said that changes are better for the comunity, because the can learn new things and discover other things. Other people react bad, they said that they don´t need changes, and they don´t accept that.
7) In Pleasantville, there is a lot of machism, beacuse when the husband return home after work, the wife mus have prepared dinner and everything must be perfect at home.
8) Yes, because everything has changed, now there are colours, sex, literature, people have feelings, they cried, there is fire and people are happy and there are love.
9) We Think that is better top live in a life with imperfections and emotions and in a place where people haven´t predestinated lifes and could have their own thoughts and everything is not perfect.
Alina Nastichenko y Nerea Ruiz 1ºD
ReplyDelete1. It was all perfect, without feelings, emotion,colours, danger, fire, rain,art, literature, also without other cities or countries.
2. Because everything is neutral without emotions.
3. They actually didn't adapt to this new life they just change town's life.
4. When Marie Sue (Jennifer) has sex with the basketball team captain, so emotions appear and this boy saw for the first time a red rouse, real read.
5. Just because they are different.
6. They are shoked and they want that everything change again and be perfect. But are some people that like this changes they think that in this way is better.
7. Women aren't required to stay all day at home, cooking and making all this stuff that women supoused to do, in the film men are shoked when women, strart to read or thinking or not being at home at the dinner.
8. Depends on your personality, if you want a perfect place, without emotions, everybody is happy and no danger, but may you prefer a real place to live, like me...
9. The underlying message of the film is that like it or not no one can stop the changes in society
AINARA RUBIO Y ÁLVARO GOROSTIAGA
ReplyDelete1.Life in Pleasantville was perfect. Love doesn't exist, the women have to stay at home and make everything to their husbands.
All was in black and white. All was perfect because there wasn't problems, fights and crimes.
2.Because people don't have feelings.
3.Because David knows all of Pleasantville story thanks to the TV series that he always watch.So they relate what happend with the chapter in the TV series.
4.The colour appear in Pleasantville for the firts time when Maryesue's boyfriend fall in love with her.
5.The colour appear in Pleasantville for the firts time when Maryesue's boyfriend fall in love with her.
6.They started brake things and burnt books because they were not allow and have a lot of colours.
7.When one day the dad of the family ccame at home there was no dinner in the table and in the oven too.
They used women for do all men things.
8.It's the same that the place where lived David and Jennyfer because at the end of the film the meet allthe things that David and Jennifer knew when they enter to Pleasantville.
9.That a live whit out feelings doesn't have seens.
Alvaro Berrade and Ares Díaz Díez
ReplyDelete1-At the begining of the film life in the village of Pleasantville everything was perfect. There aren´t feelings : sex, love,colours and emotions.
2-Because there aren´t emotions or problems to make everyone equal and there aren´t any types of differences.
3-They adapted quikly , at first they felt wierd but then they developed well the history.
4-The colour appeared when they had sex and after the boy left the girl at home and he saw a red rose .
5-They were discriminated against because they break the pleasantville rules and the laws.
6-The young people react good and the mayor and old people didn´t like it and some react agressive.
7-There is a lot of machism.
8-Yes because they have freedom.
9-Is better an imperfect world than a perfect one.
Karen and katie
ReplyDeletePleasantville
After watching the film, answer the following questions:
1. What is life in Pleasantville like at the beginning of the film?
All is perfect, no love, no sex, no emotions, the husbands worked while the wives stayed at home and cooked and cleaned.
2. Why do you think everything in Pleasantville is black and white?
All is in black and white cause all is perfect, so there isn´t emotions, danger, no sex , no love, no fire..etc.
3. How do David and Jennifer adapt to their new life?
David at begining seemed to be adapting very well, however later in the film he starts to change and not act like he should and Jennifer at beginig doesn´t adapt very well and she starts to change the people and their customs.
4. When and why does colour appear in Pleasantville for the first time?
When Spike drops Jennifer off after they had gone up to lovers lane, he sees a rose and it is red. The color appears because he starts to have feelings for Jennifer.
5. Why are “coloured” people in Pleasantville discriminated against?
Because people of pleasantville don´t like change and coloured people are causing changes such as the rain, the big bed for two persons and the fire and the basktball team starts to lose all the games.
6. How do the people in the community react to the changes that are taking place?
The husbands are very angry and do not like these changes and they right a new document to give more rules on how to stop changes. Some stores wouldn´t let colored people in. The teenagers however love the changes and they are happy when they become colored.
7. How does the film explore feminism and women’s liberation?
When for example Jennifer goes to university and it explores women´s liberation when the mom decides to go out and be happy and won´t serve her husband anymore, that is an example.
8. Do you think Pleasantville is a better place to live in at the end of the film? Why?
Karen: i think yes cause is a real life cause nothing is perfect.
Katie: I think it is better because people are now allowed to feel and they can have fun and it is better to live in a place with color and feeling than a perfect place without that.
9. Finally, what do you think the underlying message behind the film is?
The underlying message is that it is better and more fufilling to live an imperfect life with feelings and colors than to live a perfect life without colors and feelings
Pleasantville : Daniel Zarraluqui y Angel Marin
ReplyDeleteFilm title: Pleasantville
Director: Gary Ross
Screenplay: Gary Ross
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy, Joan Allen
Cinema Release Date: 1998
Certificate: 12
The 1998 film Pleasantville, directed by Gary Ross and starring Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon, is a story which comments on social change, passion and prejudice. It begins when a super-charged TV remote control zaps twins David and Jennifer from the reality of their normal 90s life into the set and family of the hyper-perfect 'Pleasantville', a black and white 1950s TV show where everyone and everything is, well, 'pleasant'.
After watching the film, answer the following questions:
1. What is life in Pleasantville like at the beginning of the film?
It looks perfect, there is not trouble, no love, no fights, no criminals... Everything is perfect.
2. Why do you think everything in Pleasantville is black and white?
Because there are no feelings, people don't love, don't get angry...etc, so nothing has colours.
3. How do David and Jennifer adapt to their new life?
Learning about the people of the village. At first, they behave like the other people, but later, they will act as they did in her first village, so the life in Pleasantville starts to change and deep feeling.
4. When and why does colour appear in Pleasantville for the first time?
In Lovers Lane, when Bud's sister have sex for the first time with a boy of Pleasantville, a rose becames red.
5. Why are “coloured” people in Pleasantville discriminated against?
Because they met the new experience of loving or doing new things in Pleasantville.
6. How do the people in the community react to the changes that are taking place?
They are afraid of what they don't know.
7. How does the film explore feminism and women’s liberation?
They use women to cook and to take care of the house while the men go to work. They are not free.
8. Do you think Pleasantville is a better place to live in at the end of the film? Why?
Yes because you can go out of the village and there are colors and feelings now.
9. Finally, what do you think the underlying message behind the film is?
Women are undervalued: men think that women only can do the house's works, as cleaning, cooking... But at the end, we can see how they go out of home and work outside. Men start to work in the house.
But in our opinion, the main message is that a world without feelings like love or heat, would have no sense.
PLEASANT VILLE BY DANI ZARRALUQUI Y ANGEL MARIN
ReplyDelete1. What is life in Pleasantville like at the beginning of the film?
It looks perfect, there is not trouble, no love, no fights, no criminals... Everything is perfect.
2. Why do you think everything in Pleasantville is black and white?
Because there are no feelings, people don't love, don't get angry...etc, so nothing has colours.
3. How do David and Jennifer adapt to their new life?
Learning about the people of the village. At first, they behave like the other people, but later, they will act as they did in her first village, so the life in Pleasantville starts to change and deep feeling.
4. When and why does colour appear in Pleasantville for the first time?
In Lovers Lane, when Bud's sister have sex for the first time with a boy of Pleasantville, a rose becames red.
5. Why are “coloured” people in Pleasantville discriminated against?
Because they met the new experience of loving or doing new things in Pleasantville.
6. How do the people in the community react to the changes that are taking place?
They are afraid of what they don't know.
7. How does the film explore feminism and women’s liberation?
They use women to cook and to take care of the house while the men go to work. They are not free.
8. Do you think Pleasantville is a better place to live in at the end of the film? Why?
Yes because you can go out of the village and there are colors and feelings now.
9. Finally, what do you think the underlying message behind the film is?
Women are undervalued: men think that women only can do the house's works, as cleaning, cooking... But at the end, we can see how they go out of home and work outside. Men start to work in the house.
But in our opinion, the main message is that a world without feelings like love or heat, would have no sense.