Film Studies Daily Log

Tuesday, May 4

We watched the final scene of City Lights, then watched it a second time while students took notes preparatory to writing responses to the following two questions:
(1) What happens in the scene? Describe in detail.
(2) What do you think will happen next?

After students finished writing several read their answers to both questions, and discovered strong differences in how people took the final moments of the film, and whether they expected the tramp and the girl to marry and live happily ever etcetera.

Mr. P then handed out copies of Tim Dirks's reading of the scene from filmsite.org and we read parts of it.

To be continued . . .