This week's rush assignment adds a twist to the uses we've been making of cinematic "rind" or "husk" (our applications of marginal bits and details toward the forging of new questions and insights).
Your task is to take one of the details you worked with in a previous rush response and apply it to a quick analysis of the The Wizard of Oz. Here's how to proceed:
1. Reread your previous rush responses and commit to one of the selected details you used there.
2. Read the "hero of a thousand faces" post on our course Homepage.
3. Look for a recurrence within The Wizard of Oz of whatever selected detail (whatever piece of "rind") you're working with from Alexander Nevsky or The Searchers. You can work from memory initially, but use Youtube to check whatever scene or scenes end up coming to mind from The Wizard of Oz.
4. Focus on one particular component of the "hero of a thousand faces" myth and use your recurring piece of "husk" to think about how this component manifests itself (or fails to manifest, as the case may be) in The Wizard of Oz.
5. A short paragraph will do for your actual response, but be sure to indicate which frames or scenes from The Wizard of Oz you're working with. For full credit post your response on your blog by 11:59pm Monday, March 5.
