Laura Giunta

Watching the movie of the Complete Persepolis was a great experience. Being able to compare it o the book was interesting. Certaing points of the book i felt were portrayed differently in the movie but i thought it was still great to watch. Like her family life was shown very well with her grandmother especially. I enjoyed how they used the jasmine flowers as an important part in the beginning and end of the movie, because it was something that meant a lot to Marjane. I enjoyed watching the movie very much, and I think it helped clear up the book a lot for me as well. Showing how life was during the war for her family was portrayed very well too. I felt like it was a lot easier to realize how it felt more in the movie than just reading the book. I especially enjoyed how the movie was still in the same cartoon animation too, it worked well with her story.

Bobby Stroud

Watching the movie in class this past week as opposed to reading the book gave me a completely different outlook on the story as a whole. I enjoyed reading a graphic novel primarily because it is an easy read and finishing sections of the book weren't as much of a hassle. The pictures also helped me to better understand what Satrapi was trying to convey. So the addition of the movie made understanding the story even easier.

Although it was in a different language, the movie was not difficult to understand or watch. It was also quite interesting. The fact that someone was able to take the pictures and make them into a movie almost completely the same as the book was a treat. It also helped me understand things that were initially unclear.

adam swift

I really enjoyed watching the Persepolis movie in class this week. I understand the story a little better now. When I heard we were watching a movie version of the graphic novel I thought that the movie was going to be filmed with actual people but it was animated copying the book. I like that it was so much like flipping the pages through the book, but I think we could have related to it even more and had a better understanding of it if real people we in it. This was probably my favorite book of the year and I think the movie was a great way to end the year.

Post #11

The movie Persepolis is matched very well with the actual book. Often, movies that are made based off of books do not meet up to the same standards. This has crippling affects on the book for those who saw the movie before they read the book. Although there were a couple scenes from the book that were left out of the movie, the movie effectively covered all the key parts in a way that emphasized the major themes and emotions of the story. The movie also took on the same style of the book by being made into an animation. Overall, the movie was a very good representation of the book and the story that Marjane Satrapi was trying to tell.

Chelsa Wlodarczyk, Post #11

Jaime Wallace

This week we watched the film version of "The Complete Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi. I really liked watching this graphic novel that we read in a chartoon movie. The events that happended in the book were represented very well in the movie. I really liked how the movie started off a little different than the book. It kept it very interesting to watch. One thing that I did not like about the movie was how the entire thing was in a different language. All of the characters were speaking French. I know that it gave the characters personality and such but it was a little annoying to have to read all the lines that people were saying. Other than that I really enjoyed watching the first part of this graphic novel. It was also very nice to see the characters alive and in action. I feel like when the characters can speak and you can observe their actions it is easier to understand them in general.

Molly Rutter, Post #12

I really enjoyed watching the movie Persepolis. I feel that it was a good interpretation on the book being that it stayed true to the story and the original graphics of the novel. I also think that they accurately depicted Marjane’s character and personality, as well as the humor included throughout. I actually enjoyed the graphics even more than I did in the book; perhaps this is due to the fact that film animation can capture motion as well as image. Because of this, I feel that the movie portrayed more expression. For example, while reading the scene where the police bust the party Marjane is attending, I didn’t immediately understand what happened when the boys were being chased on the roof. It wasn’t until Marjane said the one died that I understood. In the movie though I understood immediately because I found it much easier to see every moment of the scene instead of a few snapshots.

Looking back on the book and movie as a whole, I definitely have found a new perspective on the culture of Iran and its people. However, there were portions of the story that I didn’t enjoy as much. I would always get confused or bored when great detail went into Iran’s history and the war. Although it may have been necessary to inform the reader of that information, I found it distracted from Marjane’s personal life story, which was the most important part in my opinion.

Hannah Lutley

Watching the movie this week in class brought the book to life for me. It gave the book for of a real life feeling by showing us actions rather then just pictures. Marjane, in the story was able to keep the tone serious when needed and then was able to add humor and a lightening mood when also needed. She was able to impact her audience and teach them what was going on during the time period but was also able to show that she lives a normal life as a girl growing up, like a girls typical problems with her mother.
Even though the movie was in a difference language it was still greatly impacted by it. I got to hear the change in voice and expressions and it helped to see what was really going on. I enjoyed it because I enjoy books on tape because i like being read too and hearing the change in tone and voices. Being able to pick up on the bits of humor the Marjane puts into the stories make the whole thing very enjoyable.

Alex Beilman - Blog Post for 4/25/11-4/29/11

This week in class, we watched The Complete Persepolis movie to complement our reading of the book. I thought the movie helped give us a deeper understanding of the book. Even though the book was pretty well illustrated Satrapi's story, I thought the movie made her life story even more relatable. Perhaps the narration plus the animation of her comics made it this way.
Overall, I liked the way Satrapi told her story in both mediums. She injected some comedy in what one would assume is a miserable life story. However, she was able to tell in a colorful manner so it was not all gloom and doom.
Also, I think the movie and the book allowed some of us to gain a better understanding of what exactly is going on in Iran. At one point Satrapi mentions how people simply view all Iranians as bloodthirsty savages. Certainly I never held that thought, but it is a common stereotype. I think the book and movie prove otherwise, as both works portray a modernized city. However, ever since the 70's/80's there has always been a great political unrest and Satrapi is able to show the audience how that happened and why that happened.

Alex Beilman 4/25/11-4/29/11

Pererpolis The Movie

I think watching the movie, compared with the book gives it a new level of meaning. When you read the book you see the tale and can look at the images she is trying to portray. However, when you watch the film, with the sound effects, it adds a new level of understanding. The way the sounds she put were all somber sounds. At times it wasn't that it changed the mood of the scene, yet it was something that was just a flowing peace which help it out.
Also, I think when she had the French speaking throughout it it changed the way I heard the story. When in Iran I kept thinking they would be speaking Farsi or Arabic, didn't expect her to be speaking French. It changes the mood with her tone and the launage she explained the story in.
I thought it was funny and could related to some random parts of her tale because I know how she felt, but watching it animated you can picture yourself in (for instance when she was like I bet you I'll take my scarf off ).

Nadia Abdallah

This week we were watching The Complete Persepolis movie, I was excited to begin because I did enjoy the book and I thought that the movie would add an extra element. While watching I noticed that the movie seemed much more comical than I read the book or that I thought it would have been. Marjane is a young girl who really does not understand everything and her parents don't seem like they want to put up with her, Marji speaks her mind and her being naive makes the mood funny. The music is the movie also added something that I didn't get in the book, it really made serious parts more serious and sad parts very sad. I felt sad watching the part when her uncle was executed and I think it was because the background music.

Overall, the movie was not exactly what I expected but I did like it. I think that it left out a lot of the book which is unexpected considering each part of the book seemed to add an element to the overall feeling. I did enjoy both reading and watching the movie and think that you should continue reading this and watching!

Cassidy Weeks Post 11

Maggie DeMarco post 12

This week we watched the movie Persepolis. The movie seems to me to be a bit less interesting than the book. I think this is because I am able to use my imagination to make the voices, where as in the movie, the voices provided. Not only this, but it is in a different language. The book had just as many pictures as the movie, so I would just rather read the book. In the movie, it is interesting to hear Marjane's reactions to her mother, her teachers, and any of the other adult figures that discipline her.

Although it is in a different language, it is still possible to hear the emotion and expression in the voice of the actress. The movie is definitely as serious but as funny as times as the book is. For example, when Marjane is chanting "Down with the shaw," she is quite loud and seems to be annoying her parents. This is a very serious matter, as it basically describes what is happening in the entire book, but Marjane puts a funny spin on it by obnoxiously chanting it in her house, and when she is told to stop, she whispers the chant while walking off. As compared to in the book, you cant hear volume differences that provide humor as they do in the movie.

Laura Giunta Extra Credit

From Aimee Bender's Willful Creatures I read the short story, The Case of the Salt and Pepper Shakers. I chose to read this story because it sounded interesting to me. It was about a reporter trying to understand a murder between a husband and wife. The couple had both independently chose the same day and same time to murder each other. The wife stabbed the husband with a knife, and the husband killed her with poison. The way they died was easily found after the coroner examined their bodies, but this was not the story the reporter wanted, he saw more. The true mystery he wanted to solve was why the married couple had fourteen salt and pepper shakers in their house, it was not normal. The couple had a chef that lived with them for the past 25 years of their marriage and luckily she knew them very well. The wife liked salt and the husband liked pepper. The husband and wife believed they completed each other because of this, like their other half. The chef said the reason for the excessive amount of shakers was because they bought a new set for their anniversary every year. The reporter realized there were only fourteen though after being married for 26 years. As the couple grew older the husband could no longer handle spicy food which meant pepper, and the wife acquired high blood pressure which meant no more salt. This problem tore them apart, but in the end as they were lying on the floor together dying they finally had reached the ultimate gesture of compromise. So happily they were able to die together almost happily.