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[ria_oaks]

Mmmm, I just wasted more of the evening by watching Oz over dinner... 2X04, aka the first Chris episode! I squeed like a little girl when his flashback started, then his first scenes with Toby. "You a fag?" "No. You?" "I do what I have to." *Toby proceeds to recite random crazy poetry* *Chris looks at him like he's nuts. which he is.* Good times... Then the two of them in the shower together, at which point I just sat and drooled cuz damn, Chris has a nice body. And he was slimmer back then... he's still sexy, but a bit more filled out (especially around the middle, lol). And damn, the scene where he's working out and Schillinger comes to ask him about Operation Toby - yummy. Ahem. Not that I, you know, what this show for shallow reasons or anything. But damn.

Oh, random other thing that amused the HELL out of me: Said and Hill and a couple of others were sitting at a table in Em City, Hill's complaining about Said's lack of ability to represent him in his appeal, and Said angrily asks him if he'd prefer Beecher to represent him. As he says this, you can clearly see Beecher in the background behind Said sitting at a table and throwing a bunch of cards in the air. Looking fairly crazy as always. Probably funnier if you see it... but I LOVE those little touches in this show, how they randomly have the actors doing stuff in the background. It was a great little touch to that scene. Ahh, crazy s2 Beecher... I love you Toby. *heart*

Another random background scene that amused me in another early s2 episode that I watched recently - Adebisi walking up the stairs, some random members of the gays are standing around and promptly start running away as he approaches. And he sorta goes "boo" at them and they start running faster. Hilarious, and totally random and in the background.

I love this show. *happy sigh*

Still haven't done any work tonight. Haha. Tomorrow... must write this fucking essay.

*listening to recently d-loaded Doctor/Rose fanmix* Series 3, starts tomorrow! And because of the time difference, it'll still be early-ish here when it airs and should be online fairly quick. Yay!

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[bk635.livejournal.com]

Did you ever get around to watching The Shawshank Redemption?

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wrote my essay partly on it. It was good. Not quite what I expected - I actually thought it'd be darker for some reason, and wasn't expecting the happy ending. I tore it apart a bit in my essay, but not really in a bad way. Just commented on the potentially problematic way it represented issues of prison and justice. The film itself was still very good. You can read if you like. XD Give me your opinion before I hand it in on Monday...

[bk635.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was more or less certain that it wouldn't be what you were looking for.

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

Oh no, it was perfect... I wanted to talk about how popular film portrayed prisons, and what that says about public perceptions of the prison system, etc. The movie fit in perfectly. I pretty much talked about how it generally avoided actually dealing with issues of justice and prison, and therefore served more as escapism than anything - it presents a fairly traditional story of a man heroically overcoming great odds, taking down the bad guys, and living happily ever after. Nothing wrong with that of, course, and it made for a great movie, but it doesn't force the viewer to confront actual social issues and problems relating to prison. And, considering the popularity of the film, I think I am fairly justified in arguing that it has had some potential influence on people's views and opinions.

[bk635.livejournal.com]

Oh shit. Speaking of classic/popular prison movies, you should have also watched the 1979 version of Escape from Alcatraz. I should have mentioned it earlier; it might have been helpful for your essay. :/

[ria-oaks.livejournal.com]

Hmm... oh well. I only needed three things, anyway, and they each had to be from a different medium (hence, used film, TV, and a collection of news media articles from places like FOXNews (shudder) and USAToday). And SSR was good because it's so popular and well-known, and I wanted to talk a bit about its potential influence.