5/16/2023 0 Comments Curie high school musicality![]() ![]() Though such a pronouncement is a little extreme (let’s leave those who live with nocturnal enuresis out of this), he has a point about the facile simplicity and lack of vision that plague all too many superhero projects. He holds up a superhero comic like a piece of pornography found under a kid’s mattress and denounces the idiocy of it and its ilk - ‘ice cream for bedwetters,’ he calls them. “There’s a scene about halfway through ‘ Logan’ in which our grizzled protagonist doesn’t quite break the fourth wall, but we can certainly hear his accusatory voice on the other side of it. " What 'Logan' Gets About Telling a Great Superhero Story": According to Vulture's Abraham Riesman. This kind of thing is tougher than it looks – in fact, the harder a director works on it the easier it should seem – and Peirce’s command of composition, movement and cutting here is reminiscent of Spielberg’s work in ‘Saving Private Ryan.’” 3. In the case of ‘Tour of Duty,’ she pulls off something extraordinary, applying a Kurosawa-esque mastery of space to her action sequences in a way that conveys the messy confusion of violence without losing visual clarity – the audience is always completely acclimated within the frame, yet still gets a sense of the visceral chaos as it’s experienced by the characters. Sophisticated and at times extreme shifts in perspective are her specialty the criminally underrated ‘Carrie’ is almost painfully empathetic not only to its title character but to many of her tormentors, as Peirce utilizes subtle camera placement and delicate direction of her actors to deepen, not cheapen, De Palma’s original take on the same material. “This approach makes ‘Six’ a perfect fit for Kimberly Peirce, the director of its best (of the four I’ve seen thus far) episode, the aforementioned ‘Tour of Duty.’ Peirce’s three features to date – ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ (1999), ‘Stop-Loss’ (2008), and ‘Carrie’ (2013) – are all exquisitely calibrated portraits of extreme emotional crisis, movies about characters losing control in which Peirce’s own formal control remains supreme. " Why 'Six' is Giving Award Season Movies a Run for Their Money": The new History Channel series is praised by The Talkhouse's Jim Hemphill. Do people not care about this stuff? They just don’t listen, they don’t want to hear it.” Another student, Roxie, lives a five-minute walk away from school, and there’s a bullet hole in her front window. One of my students, Ephram, told me a story of how his mom had to pull him off the porch because there was gunfire. I’ve had to change my teaching a lot because it’s getting rougher and rougher. When I first started, those students were a different group than who I have now. I even had alumni tell me that I was making the school look bad, and the fact is, the school has changed so much. ![]() This is something that the kids are afraid of. The first student who was killed this year was a passenger in a car going to a birthday party. He took us out to dinner and asked, ‘So was that mostly production that was pushing you to say that?’ and I’m like, ‘They actually did want me to push that part of the story, but I also did not want to exaggerate it to the point where it was fake.’ It is a rough area. ![]() Burke, who represents the area where we’re from. I’m talking about the South Side of Chicago, which anyone can say is a problem.’ Teachers at the school have told me, ‘You exaggerated so much,’ and I’m like, ‘You’re driving here from the suburbs!’ I even had to explain myself to State Rep. One woman came up to me and said, ‘The boundaries of Archer Heights, where the school is, are statistically not that high in terms of violence,’ and I’m like, ‘When I went on the show and said it’s a rough neighborhood, I’m not talking about these small boundaries. ![]() And yet, I’ve had to defend myself so many times. This year alone, we have lost two of our kids to gun violence. A lot of our Musicality kids knew him personally. When you have an alumnus who dies from gang violence two blocks from our school, that’s a problem to me. But it is not the best neighborhood either. People are already mad that I mentioned the neighborhood being ‘rough,’ because it is not the worst neighborhood in the city. “It was important to me that I never said the name of the school on the show. " Michael Gibson on Musicality": The celebrated teacher at Chicago's Curie Metropolitan High School chats with me at Indie Outlook about his after school singing group, which became semifinalists on NBC's "America's Got Talent" last year. ![]()
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