Frances Beedon | April 26, 2019
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QUADE POHLMAN AND GABE SEIR
Who is your favorite fictional character?
Gabe: "I’m gonna go with Jim from The Office."
Quade: "Sure, I’ll second that, but I kinda like Andy too, he’s pretty funny."
What has been your favorite book you've read in class so far?
Quade: "The picture of Dorian Grey wasn’t bad… I’m gonna go with Catcher in the Rye."
Gabe: "What was the one in old English?" (Quade: "Was that the Canterbury Tales?") "No..." ("The Handmaid's Tale?") "It was like the one about the river, ya know, she dies and like goes down the river to Camelot." ("I know what you're talking about but I don't know what it's called. And it wasn't that good. I don't know why you're saying that.") "Alright I’ll go with Purple Hibiscus."
If your life was a movie, which would you want it to be?
Gabe: "I’d like to be Spiderman, that'd be fun." (Quade: "If we're going there, Thor is immortal too, like he won't die.") Gabe, to Quade: "I could imagine you as Thor."
Which actor would you choose to play you in a movie about your life?
Quade: Is it odd that my first thought was Kevin Hart? (laughter)
Gabe: "Who’s that guy you always stare at in French? (Frances: Theo James?) Ya were going with that."
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KATIE BALLARD AND VIOLET AMEZAGA
Who is your favorite fictional character?
Katie: "It's a girl named Laurel... she's from a book."
Violet: "Kylo Ren."
What has been your favorite book you've read in class so far?
Violet: "Ooh, Dorian Gray."
Katie: "Yeah, mine would probably be Dorian Gray too."
If your life was a movie, which would you want it to be?
Violet: "I would want to live in a princess movie, I’m writing about princesses right now, so I’m in that mindset. Probably like, Aladdin, because she’s so rich."
Katie: "Maybe The Sound of Music."
Which actor would you choose to play you in a movie about your life?
Violet: "Zooey Deschanel."
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JACK MIKHAIL AND FINN VENDOLA
Favorite fictional character?
Jack: "Can I say Thanos?"
Finn: "I don't know, like, Spongebob?"
What has been your favorite book you've read in class so far?
Jack: "Um, probably Othello."
If your life was a movie, which would you want it to be?
Jack: "Infinity War, because there’s a bunch of planets that you can go to, ya know?"
Finn: “Baywatch, or Baywatch 2. Just make it 3 Baywatches"
Which actor would you choose to play you in a movie about your life?
Jack: "Channing Tatum."
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ALAN ZHU AND IAN DOPP
Favorite fictional character?
Alan: "Hobert Mallow."
Ian: "Maybe Calvin, from Calvin and Hobbes."
Favorite book you've read in class so far?
"The adventures of Homer P Figg... No. The Mousetrap, actually."
If your life were a movie, which would you want it to be?
“Ocean's 11.”
“Scream.”
Which actor would you choose to play you in a movie about your life?
Alan: Ken Jeong.
Ian: Ryan Reynolds.
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ARI MISTRY AND CHICHI RUWENDE
Favorite fictional character?
Ari: "Hermione Granger."
Chichi: "Yeah, I was gonna say that too."
Favorite book you've read in class so far?
Ari: Kindred
Chichi: The Picture of Dorian Gray.
If your life was a movie, which would you want it to be?
Chichi: "Maybe High School Musical 2 because it's summer all the time and you're with your friends and at this crazy resort and living there for free. Plus... like every single kid below the age of ten, or even fourteen, thinks that's what high school is like. It's the ideal version of high school."
Ari: Okay, the two things that are popping into my head, one is Wonder Woman, because I know it's like a war, but you would get to be on the island with all of the, like, really awesome warrior women. Or, this is like my favorite movie ever, Stardust. Because you get to, like, fly on a magical boat and be a star. Ooh, never mind I take it back: Now You See Me, because you get to be part of like a super secret magician society." (Chichi: "Aren't they all criminals?") Ari: "But they get away with it."
Which actor would you choose to play you in a movie about your life?
Ari: People say Anna Kendrick looks like me, or I look like Anna Kendrick.
Chichi: Scarlett Johansson, final answer.