1 Psychology AND FILM What do we SEE on this slide?Jot down one sentence - you will use it in a bit, later this session What do we SEE on this slide?

2 Psychology AND FILM Color : Hot Cold … Opposition: Left Right “Sides”Darkness Mystery Movement: “Arc” Action Going Somewhere Ready to go with it Sound: First there was the word.

3 Psychology AND FILM Color: Hot Cold … Opposition: Left Right “Sides”Darkness: Mystery Movement: “Arc” Action Going Somewhere Ready to go with it Sound: First there was the word.

4 The “trinity” of in filmFILM MAKER: CREATOR - God the father CHARACTER: CREATION - God the son Audience: SPARK - Holy Spirt What is YOUR ideal focus for this class? Ask yourself Interest in yourself, The Creator Interest in your characters, The Creation Interest in the Spark that brings it life – what do your film “do” ?

5 trinity FILMMAKER CHARACTER AUDIENCE Fame – NotorietyMaintain the Muse – the will Inner workings of plot What drives their choices What “makes them tick” Impact them: POW, Zap! Adoration: fans, money Distinct: “terrier” “Arc” “Arc” as it comes from the inside, emanates out Could have said Filmmaker Character Story + Positive Change them Teach them Wake them Entertain or transport them To try to understand humanity Share a story with them Trajectory of their lives Interest in or worship of celebrity directors - Psychopaths – sociopaths + Characters who heal selves + Characters who grow - Negative Induce violence Brain wash

6 Choice: it could be . . . Psychological disorders shown in filmsDecades of the 20th C depiction of our 3. How you manage to keep the inspiration, the muse Major theorists: how each would approach character So I chose for us

7 Are there certain films that show or “do” psychology? Let’s list s’more . . .Psychotics or sociopaths Story “about” an illness Character Development “coming of age” - Maturing Impact on audience American Psycho Psycho Clockwork Orange Rosemary’s Baby Silence of the Lambs Cape Fear No Country for Old Men Fatal Attraction Taxi Driver “Sick” people who get well Awakenings A Beautiful Mind The Marriage of Maria Braun Breaking Bad Barry Lyndon A Beautiful Life her Paris, Texas Rain Man Kramer vs. Kramer The Lion King Godfather There Will Be Blood American History X Casablanca 2001 Blowup Memento The Martian Revenant Psycho (at the time) Brokeback Mountain Last Tango in Paris The Exorcist – and other horrors

8 Films with shrinks The Three Faces of Eve Titticut Follies SybilOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Girl, Interrupted Equus Analyze This Ordinary People Shutter Island A Beautiful Mind Titticut Follies Silence of the Lambs Good Will Hunting The Perks of Being a Wallflower In Treatment (a TV series) Awakenings Donnie Darko Spellbound Ma Vie en Rose

9 ~ 15 minutes + a break ~ Pause … for Look at your 1st jot – … your original thought about Ponder now What can you now say interests YOU in of Film? What will YOU gain from it? Your film making Can you be an active force to coax the class Towards “X” if you feel the class goes “off course”? ~ 15 minutes + a break ~

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11 What about … the personal What is your fear?Imposter syndrome Transparency – can be “seen through” Dislike someone Tension Can’t sleep at night Inability to shut down inner tape recorder? Language Shy Speaking in public Problem with “love” Something about body, the physical

12 syllabus 3 special copies and 13 regular copiesthen Spirit Guides …. Then Psych of Film Rules: we follow Book(s) Expectations of homework Typed Double-spaced Printed out PRIOR TO class time On time if unclear The weeks schedule on back

13 How do we proceed “Old guys”With each topic or “old guy” try to cover the TRINITY Participation – review – re- adjustment

14 assignments Body Language – assignments begin now Feet Torso ArmsHands Face Begin to read: intro to the book … and begin Freud

15 Culture Who dared think “I’m special” – who dared act upon “I’m special” Psychology: Birth Order Gender: changes Parental expectation Who pays Who is “connected” City size Internet history East/West/Middle

16 Link collection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbCSKY9ASlk&list=PL5C ED70D5 3

17 Next week: week 2 Begin to read Freud filmmakers/ . . . Body Language assignments

18 Aristotle on drama Beginning, Middle, End: BME Arc Dramatic StructureDifference between “serials” or “episodic” & drama Episodic or Drama: “Breaking Bad,” “I Love Lucy” “House of Cards”