What like a bullet can undeceive From Shiloh

“What like a bullet can undeceive” From Shiloh by Herman Melville Memento/Memento Mori All images taken from Google strictly for educational purposes. Copyright © Myrna Monllor Jiménez 2016 >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

H. Melville remembers the Battle of Shiloh • A requiem • A hymn for the dead >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Shiloh A Requiem (1862) “Foemen at morn, but friends at eve Fame or country least their care: (What like a bullet can undeceive!)” >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

PICTURE START >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

What is a memento mori? >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Memento Mori Literary Meditations on Death • "Remember that you are mortal” • "Remember you will die" • "Remember your death” • Reminded people of their own mortality >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

The Beginning of the Story. “Your wife always used to say you'd be late for your own funeral. Remember that? Her little joke because you were such a slobalways late, always forgetting stuff, even before. ” >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Earl’s Problem • Backwards Amnesia (CRS disease) “never ending grief, never ending anger” >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

The Two Narrators • Maybe you can't understand what happened to you. But you do remember what happened to HER, don't you? The doctors don't want to talk about it. They won't answer my questions. >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

The Two Photographs Earl reading his wife’s headstone “For a moment this looks like a hall of mirrors or the beginnings of a sketch of infinity: the one man bent over, looking at the smaller man, bent over, reading the headstone. “ >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

The Two Photographs Earl’s MRI “In marker, the picture is labeled YOUR BRAIN. Earl stares at it. Concentric circles in different colors. He can make out the big orbs of his eyes and, behind these, the twin lobes of his brain. Smooth wrinkles, circles, semicircles. But right there in the middle of his head, circled in marker, tunneled in from the back of his neck like a maggot into an apricot, is something different. Deformed, broken, but unmistakable. A dark smudge, the shape of a flower, right there in the middle of his brain. ” >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Earl’s scars Maybe then he notices the scar. It begins just beneath the ear, jagged and thick, and disappears abruptly into his hairline. >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Earl’s Tattoos in the Story “The arrow leads up Earl's arm, crosses at the shoulder, and descends onto his upper torso, terminating at a picture of a man's face that occupies most of his chest. The face is that of a large man, balding, with a mustache and a goatee. It is a particular face, but like a police sketch it has a certain unreal quality. ” >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Important Quotes …Whether revenge matters to you. It does to most people. For a few weeks, they plot, they scheme, they take measures to get even. But the passage of time is all it takes to erode that initial impulse. Time is theft, isn't that what they say? And time eventually convinces most of us that forgiveness is a virtue. Conveniently, cowardice and forgiveness look identical at a certain distance. Time steals your nerve. >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Important Details • The two rooms: hospital room, motel room • The Chinese Room • His new tattoo “I raped and killed your wife. ” • The bell and its two dates >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

The Crime “EARL'S EYES ARE WIDE OPEN, staring through the window of the car. Smiling eyes. Smiling through the window at the crowd gathering across the street. The crowd gathering around the body in the doorway. The body emptying slowly across the sidewalk and into the storm drain. A stocky guy, facedown, eyes open. Balding head, goatee. In death, as in police sketches, faces tend to look the same. This is definitely somebody in particular. But really, it could be anybody. ” >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

The End “Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. This moment a million times over. You have to trust me. If this moment is repeated enough, if you keep trying—and you have to keep trying—eventually you will come across the next item on your list. “ >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

The Film >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Jonathan Nolan "I’ve always suspected that it has something to do with the fact that he’s left-handed and I’m right-handed, because he’s somehow able to look at my ideas and flip them around in a way that’s just a little bit more twisted and interesting. It’s great to be able to work with him like that. ” (about his brother, Chris Nolan) Memento (short story) The Prestige (screenplay) The Dark Knight (screenplay) >> 0 >> 1 >> The Dark Knight Rises Interstellar 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Chris Nolan • • • >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 Interstellar Man of Steel (writer) The Dark Knight Rises Inception The Dark Knight The Prestige Batman Begins Insomnia Memento >> 3 >> 4 >>

American Film Institute AFI “Memento turns the traditional rules of movie narrative upside down, backwards, forwards, sideways. The film is like a complex jigsaw puzzle, but after all the pieces are assembled, it turns out not to be the picture on the box. ” (AFI quote) >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Memento (2000) • • Budget $9 million Filmed in 25 days 92% Rotten Tomatoes Won American Film Institute – Screenwriter of the Year – Movie of the Year – Editor of the Year • Nominated Oscars – Best Writing – Best Editing >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 Dody Dorn, film editor >> 3 >> 4 >>

Memento • • Puzzle film Nonlinear narrative/fragmented structure Restrictive narration Themes: – Memory – Self-deception – Perception – Revenge >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

The film’s alternating narratives • Color Story/Leonard’s investigation (main narrative) – First scene literally runs backward – reverse chronological order – short sequences – repetition to link the scenes disorients the viewer • Black and White/ Leonard talking about himself to an anonymous caller (parallel story) (visual flashbacks) >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

The Narrators “People, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. ” >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Memento "Memory's unreliable. . . Memory's not perfect. It's not even that good. Ask the police; eyewitness testimony is unreliable. . . Memory can change the shape of a room or the color of a car. It's an interpretation, not a record. Memories can be changed or distorted, and they're irrelevant if you have the facts. ” >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

The Beginning >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Leonard Shelby >> 0 >> 1 >> [voiceover] So where are you? You're in some motel room. You just you just wake up and you're in - in a motel room. There's the key. It feels like maybe it's just the first time you've been there, but perhaps you've been there for a week, three months. It's - it's kind of hard to say. I don't - I don't know. It's just an anonymous room. 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Lenny Anterograde amnesia >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Earl’s Tattoos His upper torso is covered in words, phrases, bits of information, and instructions, all of them written backward, but forward in the mirror. >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

The Tattoos >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

The Photos >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Sammy Jankins wrote himself endless notes. But he'd get mixed up. I've got a more graceful solution to the memory problem. I'm disciplined and organized. I use habit and routine to make my life possible. Sammy had no drive. No reason to make it work. >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Sammy Jankins >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Teddy/John G. Gammel • “ You’re not a killer Lenny. That’s why You’re so good at it. ” • “You lie to yourself. You don’t want the truth …. So you make up your own truth. ” >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Teddy/John G. Gammel >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

According to Teddy • Leonard’s wife hadn’t died in the assault. It was Leonard who killed her by administering insulin shots. • Sammy Jankis was Leonard’s client, but Leonard has embellished Jankis’ story to psychologically cover up for his crime and his guilt over what he did. >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Natalie >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Natalie “You know what? I think I'm gonna use you. I'm telling you now because I'll enjoy it so much more if I know that you could stop me if you weren't such a f… freak! “ >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

The Setups • Teddy sets up Jimmy, a drug dealer, because he wants the $200, 00 for the transaction. He has also set up others in the past. • Natalie sets up Leonard so that he will kill Teddy because she suspects Teddy had something to do with Jimmy’s disappearance. She also manipulates Leonard into attacking Dodd. • Leonard sets himself up to kill Teddy. He destroys evidence and tattoos the license plate on his body. >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

The Wife “My wife used to call me Lenny. I hated it. ” Natalie: What's the last thing that you do remember? Leonard Shelby: My wife. . . Natalie: That's sweet. Leonard Shelby: . . . dying. >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

The Wife “I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. “ >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

The License Plate >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

The Ending Justified Dishonesty I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can't remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. Do I believe the world's still there? Is it still out there? . . . Yeah. We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I'm no different. >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

The Last Tattoo Is Lenny’s condition real or psychological? >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Important Quotes I'm not a killer. I'm just someone who wanted to make things right. Can't I just let myself forget what you've told me? Can't I just let myself forget what you've made me do. You think I just want another puzzle to solve? Another John G. to look for? You're John G. So you can be my John G. . . Will I lie to myself to be happy? In your case Teddy. . . yes I will. >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Important Quotes That’s who you were, Lenny. You don’t know who you are, who you’ve become since the incident. >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Bibliography • Memento www. otnemem. com • Klein, Andy. Everything you wanted to know about "Memento” http: //www. salon. com/2001/06/28/mement o_analysis/ • Memento Analysishttp: //mementoanalysis. tumblr. co m/ >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>

Bibliography • I’m Leonard Shelby-Analysis of Polaroid, Narration and Leonard In Memento http: //the-artifice. com/analysis-mementopolaroid-narration/ >> 0 >> 1 >> 2 >> 3 >> 4 >>