Twitter Movie Report

Through the class’ Twitter pages, we were able to conclude that the majority of us like movies in the same genre and movies that came out roughly during the same time period. We found that of the 18 people in the class, 12 of the movies came out from 2000-2012 and one came out in 2016; the rest from the late 80s early 1990s. Five of the of the movies were from before our classmates were born or when they were a young age. The two different genres that were almost evenly shared are comedy and drama; however, some of the movies may have had multiple genres or fit into more than one genre. Most of the movies can also be said to be forward thinking because they focus on present or future ideas rather than the past. None of the movies had a common director, but "The Dark Knight" and "Shawshank Redemption" both included Morgan Freeman. On Twitter, Case Cain said, "#MyFavoriteMovie is Rushmore [because] it's an awesome coming-of-age movie and those kinds of movie are my jam," (@Case_ENC2135; https://twitter.com/Case_ENC2135) which relates to "13 Going On 30" being that that is also a coming-of-age movie. Furthermore, most of the movies mentioned today do not follow genre conventions. For example, Zombieland is categorized as a comedy and horror film: these genres are opposites, therefore, following the conventions of both would create a different feel than what the directors were essentially going for.

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