kim woods

To receive full credit (25/25points) you must answer at least one of the following questions about the monster movie documentary in the form of a short paragraph as well as respond critically to at least two of your classmates' posts.

Note: Responding critically requires more than a simple "yes" or "no." In sentence form, respond with one of the following:

• I agree because...(you must finish the thought)
• I disagree because...(you must finish the thought)
• I partially agree and partially disagree because...(you must finish the thought)

Bear in mind that everyone must post twice (once in response to me, and at least once in response to a classmate and then finally in response to a second classmate) 

Discussion Questions:

1. The documentary's host, Mark Gatiss, says that he has always had a fascinationwith monster movies,even from childhood. Later, he says that Hollywood film studios lost interest in making horror films even when the public was still craving monsters, as evidenced in the success of the double-feature he mentions, despite either of them being new. How do you account for the public's(and Gatiss', and perhaps even your own) fascinationwith horror movies and monstrosity? How was the genre able to achieve success so quickly?
2. Boris Karloff made a name for himself by playing monsters. At one point, Gatissquestions why Karloff may have been able to play those creatures so well and whether he was able to identify with them. Do you agree with what is said in conversation between Karloff's daughter and Gatiss? What do you make of Karloff's belief that "the children understood" his characters?
3. Near the end of the documentary, Gatiss makes a comment about the monster's ability to rise again after the audience believes it to be dead. How does this and other ideas echo or compare with what we have read in our Monsters text?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkZBJd4UTlM

A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss (Part 1 of 3) Frankenstein Goes to Hollywood

I want you to responde to theses two :

In the video, Karloff's daughter says that she believe her father could play the creatures so well because of the personal prejudice he endured as a child for having dark skin. I agree with this statement because once you are treated like an outsider you start to believe that what everyone is saying about you is true and that you must be a monster if everyone feels the same way. She also mentions that children understood the characters because children believe the monster is the victim not the perpetrator. I also agree with this because children don't have the same judgmental tendencies that adults do. Children try to see the good in everything first and don't have enough worldly experience to know any different. 

and : 

I agree with the statement that the color of a persons skin can impact their life forever and that makes it very difficult to carry on with life. Adults always judge more than children do... adults look mainly at the outside appearance but children tend to look at the heart. Children are way more accepting and forgiving than adults tend to be. I believe children are what our world needs to strive to be more like.