<story><title>I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers (2021)</title><url>https://scholars-stage.org/how-i-taught-the-iliad-to-chinese-teenagers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Meerax</author><text>Any movie (or generally any artistic creation) can change the audience. But Snakes on a Plane might not hit the same as say The Wages of Fear.&lt;p&gt;Wikis for those not familiar 
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Wages_of_Fear&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Wages_of_Fear&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Snakes_on_a_Plane&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Snakes_on_a_Plane&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>jncfhnb</author><text>Does this not apply to any film?</text></item><item><author>kaycebasques</author><text>&amp;gt; Why, my Chinese students asked, will we read this? Because you need to prepare for American university classes, I replied. But more importantly: because this book might just change your life! I said this without apology or awkwardness. I believed it! Ultimately, if a great work of history and literature does not have the potential to change a student’s life, to shape their character or transform their worldview, there is no point in teaching it!&lt;p&gt;Love the boldness and clarity here. Whenever a classic movie is showing in the theaters that my wife has not seen, I tell her &amp;quot;we gotta watch this.&amp;quot; It&amp;#x27;s not that I even enjoy or think of these movies as my favorites. It&amp;#x27;s that there is something in the movie that might stick with her and change her (and me).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>newaccount7g</author><text>Snakes on Plane genuinely changed people’s lives more than Wages of Fear because it showed people the potential of making dumb jokes big. Wages of Fear was basically the same moralizing people get every day. Movies have a self referential quality that makes them more intellectually engaging than mere novels.</text></comment>
<story><title>I taught the Iliad to Chinese teenagers (2021)</title><url>https://scholars-stage.org/how-i-taught-the-iliad-to-chinese-teenagers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Meerax</author><text>Any movie (or generally any artistic creation) can change the audience. But Snakes on a Plane might not hit the same as say The Wages of Fear.&lt;p&gt;Wikis for those not familiar 
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Wages_of_Fear&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;The_Wages_of_Fear&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Snakes_on_a_Plane&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Snakes_on_a_Plane&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>jncfhnb</author><text>Does this not apply to any film?</text></item><item><author>kaycebasques</author><text>&amp;gt; Why, my Chinese students asked, will we read this? Because you need to prepare for American university classes, I replied. But more importantly: because this book might just change your life! I said this without apology or awkwardness. I believed it! Ultimately, if a great work of history and literature does not have the potential to change a student’s life, to shape their character or transform their worldview, there is no point in teaching it!&lt;p&gt;Love the boldness and clarity here. Whenever a classic movie is showing in the theaters that my wife has not seen, I tell her &amp;quot;we gotta watch this.&amp;quot; It&amp;#x27;s not that I even enjoy or think of these movies as my favorites. It&amp;#x27;s that there is something in the movie that might stick with her and change her (and me).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Waterluvian</author><text>Snakes on a Plane is, allegorically, a retelling of The Odyssey. (Drugs recommended)</text></comment>