KellyMichael - TS#7

Hamoud had mentioned in one of our previous sessions how much he enjoyed movies, so for this tutoring session I decided we would watch a few movies scenes then discuss. The choices for the movies were "Tombstone" an action western based on the story of Wyatt Earp and the OK Coral, "The Outsiders" based on S.E. Hinton's book about the struggle of a young man growing up against odds society gave him, and "Weird Science" a comedy where two high schoolers create a woman with their computers. These are three movies I thought spoke about American culture, each one set in a different era of the US, but very representational of the times. The scenes we watched together, I gathered they enjoyed it. One of the topics that surfaced because of dialog in the movie was the idea of sarcasm, and how meaning can be obscured to be the opposite of the grammatically correct sentence. It was a good cultural exchange of ideas, much laughter and enjoyable conversation. We also talked about guns in our culture, and it was difficult. It's not a topic I know anything about, besides the law. This is one topic I will try to avoid in the future.