Great Gatsby Remix(?) 1.

NOTES PART 2

NOTES PART ONE

Remix Idea!

Movies.

Basic genres in film making is; chick flicks, action, adventure, horror and romance. In the world there are over 500,000 movies made, yet aren't they all just remixes of the movies created before them?

Joe: "Hey Rey, that movie last year had a crippled man falling for his nurse. Let's make a film like that but instead have the crippled man be a crippled women and add a few more scenes!"

Rey: "Genius! Let's get right to it."

Bam! 5 star rated film. Oh look it just won a Grammy.

Random Person: "Wow! That movie was so amazing and original. How did they ever come up with that plot. How genius!"

Me: "Umn dude isn't this movie just like last year's movie?"

Random Person: "No this movie is a crippled women the other one was a crippled man! They even have different names."

SPOILER ALERT! MOVIES ARE ALL REMIXES OF EACH OTHER! MOVIES AREN'T ORIGINAL. 

Remix in Life

Starting up with the remix videos, we learned three things; transform, change and copy.

Isn't that how life is? We are just one  big ball of remix. All the movies we watch like lets say "The Notebook", it's a classic chick flick (never going to see it in my life) and almost all of them are the exact same thing! They're just a little more transformed and changed up to seem original yet they're all the same ending with the girl falling for the guy or the guy changing for her. Princess movies always end with a "happily ever after" they're not original just a transformed version of the princess before. Jeez even "happily ever after" is a remix of years ago!

Songs now aren't original. Lesley was talking about a song from The Weeknd having the same chorus from a song from the 80s. Nothing in life is original if you really think about it. We're not original, we're remixes of our parents and their parents and so on. 

MY COMPUTER SCREEN!!!

Leaving Preston's class, my computer was nice and sound in my backpack. Ever since I got my tablet I was always gentle with it, even though I have insurance on it! I went into my French class and CAREFULLY put it down next to my new seat. We were doing a weird rotation classwork thing. (You moved from desks to desks in a group doing a small french assignment.) My tablet was in my backpack the whole time and I didn't think about it at all, I mean after all it was safe in my backpack. After all my classes I went on my computer and thought it was strange that my touch screen wasn't working. AND THEN I SAW A CRACK ON MY COMPUTER! SOMEONE MUST'VE KICKED MY BACKPACK OR SOMETHING!!!! Jeez I'm so mad. 

Music as Literature

Can we consider music to be literature? 

Novel: a fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism.

Poem:a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanzaic structure.

Rap: Rap musicians generally perform in a vocal style in which the lyrics are spoken, rather than sung.

Song: a short poem or other set of words set to music or meant to be sung.

Opera: a dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and instrumentalists.

Symphony: an elaborate musical composition for full orchestra, typically in four movements, at least one of which is traditionally in sonata form.

Back to the question at hand, can we consider music to be literature? The vocabulary definitions I set up top clearly describe music as a form of literature. A song is just a poem with music, a rap is just a poem that is spoken, an opera is a one or more acts put to music, etc. All of these are just short stories and novels shortened and put into music to sound more enjoyable. 

Literature: written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit.
Artistic merit is a term that is used in relation to cultural products when referring to the judgment of their perceived quality or value as works of art.

Isn't music an artistic merit? Can they not be classified as a work of art, as a work of genius, as a work of LITERATURE?

Two types of literature are written and oral. Music is both dude.