Critical reading and creative writing
A- Trailer for “My Son the Fanatic”
B- It took us some time to decide which story we were going to work with. We finally selected My son the fanatic. We first selected the parts of the story we were going to include and then we agreed on three famous actors to carry out our film, which were Irrfan Khan (as Parvez), Dev Patel (as Ali) and Natalie Portman (as Bettina). Then, we made a research on which films these actors made in order to take some scenes from them (“Slumdog Millonaire”, “Closer”, “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, etc). We had some inconvenience when finding the same actor performing different activities, for example, in finding Dev Patel playing football, cricket, studying, etc but we more or less managed to look for other films in which there were similar actors or at least they were not clearly seen.
In connection with the trailer itself, first we show Parvez’ s and Ali’s lifestyles in English society. Parvez portrayed as a Pakistani taxi driver, alcoholic person and a tolerant Muslim. His wife does the ironing and Parvez has intimate conversations with his close friend, Bettina. His son Ali plays cricket, football and studies hard. Then, Parvez’s life takes an unexpected dark turn when his son Ali converts to fundamentalist Islam, leading to a family breakdown and social conflict. We quote some phrases from the story to show a serious conversation between Parvez and Ali discussing about religion and their roles English society. Last, we include a violent scene between father and son and the final words of the story which are “Who’s the fanatic now?”. In this way we want to anticipate that the story begins just there whith Ali’s words.
As regards the bibliography used, we have taken some sentences in direct speech from the story “My Son the Fanatic” such as “We are not in the village now. We are in England. We have to fit in!”//“You’re too implicated in Western civilization”// “You musn’t give up on him”, images from “Google images” and scenes from the films mentioned above. We used www.imdb.com to get informatin about the films in which the actors chosen have performed.
C- We took those videos from Youtube and we downloaded them with JDownloader in an mp4 format for better quality. We chose a muslim music and some film sounds to add to our trailer. In order to make it, we used Windows movie maker, which is quite simple and easy to use.
Tatiana, Guillermina, Angela
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