Movie part one

We watched the movie version of "THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME" pt. 1

Please finish questions 1-10 for next class.

On Thursday we will finish watching the rest of the movie.

Here is what we watched last day:

On a cabin cruiser the captain suspects the charts near a certain island. A doctor notes that animals killing to survive are called savage, while humans hunting for sport are considered civilized. He asks big game hunter Robert Rainsford (Joel McCrea) if there is as much sport for the tiger. Misplaced buoys cause the ship to run aground and sink. The captain and the doctor are killed by sharks, but Rainsford swims ashore and finds an old castle. Count Zaroff (Leslie Banks) says that survivors of a previous wreck are still in the house. Rainsford meets Eve (Fay Wray) and her brother Martin, who are stranded there. Zaroff has read Rainsford's books on hunting. He hunts at night, and a guest has been missing for three days. Eve spills her tea on purpose and mentions danger while Zaroff is talking about his hunting and how it began to bore him until he found a new animal, the most dangerous one. While Zaroff plays the piano, Eve tells Rainsford that two men have disappeared from the trophy room. Zaroff takes the drunk Martin into the trophy room as Eve and Rainsford retire to their rooms.

THE MOST DANEROUS GAME INTRO.

Last class we read a bit of the short story "The Most Dangerous Game".

Here is a look at what we talked about in class.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Richard Connell was born October 17, 1893, in Duchess County near the Hudson River in New York
State—not far from Theodore Roosevelt's homestead. At the age of ten, he started writing for the
Poughkeepsie News−Press, his father's newspaper, as a baseball reporter. Later, while attending Georgetown
College in Washington D.C., Richard served as secretary to his father in Congress. Following his father's
death in 1912, Connell enrolled at Harvard University where he served as editor for both the Daily Crimson
and the Lampoon. After Harvard, Connell went to work for the New York American, a newspaper in New
York City. He also served with American forces in World War I. In 1925, following the publication of "The
Most Dangerous Game," which won him the O'Henry Memorial Award for short fiction, Connell moved to
Beverly Hills, California, where he continued his career as a freelance writer.

SETTING:

"The Most Dangerous Game" is set sometime after the First World War on a remote, tropical island in the
Caribbean, known by sailors as Ship−Trap Island. Among those sailors, it has a mysteriously ominous
reputation and is given a wide birth by knowledgeable sea captains. Those passing near it sense an elusive,
indefinable sense of evil. Ship−Trap Island is somewhat removed from the regular sea route between New
York and Rio de Janeiro, but not so far to avoid the occasional passing ship. The island is covered with a
dense jungle that extends all the way down to its treacherous, rocky shoreline. On one side of the island, a line
of giant, jagged rocks, capable of sinking any ship that ventures into them, extends from the shore, lurking
just below the surface of the sea. It is this line of rocks that gives Ship−Trap Island its name.

HOME WORK DUE FOR FRIDAY:

Classmate Interview Story

Mr. Noda and Level 3

Welcome to your class board!

Please use this site to remind you of your home work, and to check what's up coming in our class.

Please finish your partner profile for Friday!

GOOD LUCK!!!