Blog based on Corpse thing haha

I forgot what the game was called now. But usually it is done with drawings, where you can't see what other people are doing in the space before. This time we had to write questions and answers and write new questions from the answers we saw. It was difficult and really made you have to think deeply about what they were saying. Usually if I had to form a question from an answer the answer would be really vague and not even mention the movie, so I had to greatly improvise on the way. It was really very fun though, and challenging. My favorite one we read out loud was the one about Everyday Bad Dream. The whole kid's entertainment character turned nightmare was a good idea as it was, and it made for some great discussion. But the page I got to report about was about Data Diaries and Fist Fight, so here goes:

The original question was: "In Fist Fight, what instruments or objects could you make out during the film?" I think this is a really vague question to begin with, and not conceptual at all. Fortunately the next person in line (I know who it is but I'm not sure he'd want me to say?) answered: "Not quite sure, it felt like an acid trip mixed in with animation from hell, and I'm sure just about any imagery can come of that." I actually laughed out loud in class when we were still writing, as I was next in line. Keep in mind, I never saw that first question. Yet, I didn't need any explanation as to which film was being talked about. Yes it may be a crude way to talk of film, but it really gets down to the bare bones of the issue after all. The film was fast paced, hard to follow, and had many unrelated images thrown together. The animation was not as bad as hell, but it certainly wasn't Disney. I especially remember the Santa that came on screen as shapes, the shapes fell apart into their sections, and then the Santa formed again as the shapes came together again. I personally felt this was a metaphor for the whole film- the film was using the idea of frames being pieces of a film, just like in animation especially, where every other frame must be drawn. As an animator himself, Robert Breer knew of this especially well and liked to explore it in regular film. The Santa was in pieces, the came together, and fell apart again. Creepy, yes. But a great way to show in a few seconds what he was trying to bring across throughout the whole film. As for the images thrown together, I think it's very interesting and after knowing the director was an animator, I have new respect for why he made the film. Being an animator myself, I can really see where he is coming from. But I still liked the comment.

So moving on, I then asked: "What concepts, if any, are common between "Fist Fight" and "Data Diaries"? and the next person in line answered: "That the viewer is getting drowned in a sea of information that was unclear to us." I like this answer on a certain level, but I think it could have been explored much deeper. I don't think "getting drowned in information" is a concept. A feeling you get while you watch both films, sure, but not a concept. I was thinking more along the lines that a common idea between both films was that the director was breaking things down to a smaller level in each film, so that we could understand the whole better. Robert Breer was breaking his film down into frames because he wanted to explore the smaller version of the whole, and Corey Archangel was breaking down a computer's system into small, visible pieces, images and sound, so we could see them clearly and in a new way.

The next answer I liked was this: "The point of Fist Fight was all about insanity of the situation. There is so much flying at you, the fists, the situation, emotions, all in one piece until it explodes...then you get a fist fight."
I don't really think there's much to add to that statement. He pegged the idea well! I think that if Robert Breer was thinking at all about a narrative, this may be exactly what he would say to describe that narrative.