Response Paper 6: Movies

Response Paper 6:

• Describe the difference between both movies. Describe what happened , using operations, acts, and scenarios. And explain the significance of these movies to your lives.
• In “Shall we dance” a married man goes to dancing classes without telling his wife and children because he is looking for a passion that he has lost over the years of daily routine. In “Shall we dansu”? A single guy goes to dancing classes and falls in love with his dancing partner.
• So the basic difference for me is that in “Shall we dance” passion and love are separated, and in the other version they are not. That may reflect the north-American way of thinking that couples must not share every minute of their free time together, but can follow their separate hobbies.(?)
• At the same time both movies have the message that we should never lose our passion and do things that make us happy, no matter how others may look at them.

• Questions to determine appropriateness in cultural practices. Table 6.2 page.72
• Avoiding attention:
• 1. Scenario in Germany: A young woman is sitting alone in a café. She has already ordered a café, but is still looking at the menu. The waiter approaches her and asks if he can bring her something else. She tells him she has not decided yet. The waiter leaves her alone.
• 2. Scenario in Costa Rica: A you woman is sitting alone in a park, reading a magazine. A guy approaches her and asks her for money. She tells him she does not have any, and turns her back to him. The guy walks away.
• 3. Scenario anywhere: A young woman is sitting in a park reading a magazine. A guy approaches her and starts telling her how pretty she is. Then he asks her if she gives him her telephone number. The woman tells him that she is married, so he walks away.

• In all the scenarios the woman has the role of the rejecter and uses body language to show her negative response to the man’s request. (She turns her back to him.) The man uses body language by first approaching and looking at her closely, and then walking away from her.
• The man always wants something from the woman: he wants her to order, to give him money, or her telephone number. He is rejected in all cases. All the scenarios can occur at any time of year. The style of communication in the first scenario would be formal/direct, in the second informal/direct, and in the last scenario informal/indirect.