This week, Professor Brian Morris gave us four articles as reading. I know that these readings are very helpful for our professional skills, however, there are lots of pages of each reading, and I could not spend too much time so I chose the hyper attention.
For this post, I chose the article named Casablanca: Cult Movies and Intersexual Collage to post my critical reflection. Author Umberto Eco allocates this passage in five parts that are cult, the making of “Casablanca”, stop by stop, the archetypes hold a reunion and cult culture. Honestly, I never see this movie before, even never hear it, after the reading, I will find it out on the Internet and enjoy it. .
According to Umberto, Casablanca is an example of cinematic discourse, a palimpsest for the future students of twenty centuries religiosity, and a paramount laboratory for the semiotic research in textual strategies. The Casablanca likes a cult movie, and many people would ask how to transfer a book or movie into a cult object. Author Umberto gave us three ways, the work must be loved, and there is a completely furnished. The third one should build on the other two ways, which is becoming catalyzer of collective memories. This is talking about the story/structure, and for the text, the text need to attractive and impressive although the text is unhinged, broke out and took in a part.
Then, Umberto presents a special point that different from other movies, which is about the archetypes. Every story plays upon one or more archetypes, on the contrast, the Casablanca uses all of them. Regarding to this situation, Umberto argues that a best deconstructive reading should be made upon unhinged text.
This is a very professional article, and I support you guys go to read this attentively.