Because I don't have a projector of my own...

Yesterday, in preparation for an upcoming assignment, I had my class compare and contrast two movie sequences. The first was the market place fight from Raiders of the Lost Ark (from Marion being thrown onto the hay cart to the Nazi truck blowing up) the second was the "100 mile dash" sequence from The Incredibles.

And no, the integrity of the exercise was not my primary consideration in choosing those particular clips.

But they ended up working pretty well anyway. The class picked up on just about everything I had hoped -- from movement (running to and running from), to the similarities of the "faceless" adversaries, to the setting (crowds of people and dense jungle both serving as obstacles), to music setting a similar tone for each -- sespensful yet light-hearted and fun.

You can compare and contrast anything.

(And for those of you who think I should have compared "100 mile dash" to the speeder bike chase in Return of the Jedi are forgetting that this is a college-level course, and the exercises are supposed to be challenging -- that, and I don't own Return of the Jedi on DVD yet.)