October 31st Response

Personally, the most significant symbol in Snowpiercer is the kronole. Without the drug there would be no progression in the film. The doors to each section of the train wouldn't have opened if the two characters didn't have the kronole as there incentive. Because the doors had opened, the movie could progress, otherwise we would still be stuck at the tail end of the train. Also, without the kronole there would be no possible way for the door to blow off the side of the train. Leading to the falling action of the movie where the train is destroyed and the characters are set free to the outside world. Therefore this is the most significant symbol to the film. The meaning this has to the film represents freedom. The act of bursting through the doors of the train and blowing off the side all leads to freedom. The people in the tail section wanted to be free from enslavement of the guards and their leaders. The kronole gave them the hope to do that.

After watching Snowpiercer the most significant scene, in my opinion was when Curtis lead them into the aquarium. After having some sushi and learning that it was a rarity, because maintaining the aquarium ecosystem only allowed a small amount of fish to be taken out. I think this was the most important scene because at that point they realized that the train was an giant contained ecosystem. They realized how intricate the train really was.

Snowpiercer October 28th

Question 3:

I believed the most significant scene at the time was the scene where Mason put the passenger's arm outside of the train as punishment. She uses him to demonstrate her power over them, by giving a speech that compares the tail passengers to shoes. She tells them that they resemble a shoe while she resembles a hat on top on the head alluding to her place at the front of the train. I believe this is significant because it gave the audience knowledge about how the train was being run, which helped us understand the rest of the movie.

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The most important symbol in Snowpiercer is the aquarium car.  They talk about how they can only serve sushi two months a year in order to balance the ecosystem.  This symbolizes the structure of the entire train.  When they reach the engine, Wilford tells them that he was the one sending messages in the food blocks and that he had been organizing the revolt and past revolts in order to balance the ecosystem of the train.

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1. The Most important symbol in the movie is the Train. The train represents the world and its people represent its humanity. Very simply stated by the man who built the train. I agree that those 2 things attribute to the stories foundation. 2.Society is ruthless and cutthroat, everyday people die fighting for what they believe in. In that process people lose lives, money, mind, and soul. constantly pushing for something better but having to fight the people in charge for change. That is what the allegory comes the closest too. Even when presented with everything Curtis could have wanted, he still chose for change. 3. The way the kids were learning and being treated. Why didn't they have the kids ;earning how to start a new life outside the train when it got warmer.

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10/28/16

1. Close up shot, extreme long shot, mid shot. There tends to be more close up and mid shots to express the emotion and significance in certain scenes.
2. I feel like the most significant scene in the movie was the explanation of the tail section being the boot of the train. I feel like its the most important because it begins to represent the separation of class in the train, status wise and location wise.
3. I believe the train is the most significant symbol in the train. It represents the last of humanity as well as being the safe haven for the passengers a place to call "home".

10/31/16

1. The most significant symbol in the movie is still the train. It represents the accumulation of the people as a whole but still expresses the separation between different train cars, status, and occupation.
2. From what I see the most significant statement about society that can be made is the inequality that comes along with power while trying to retain balance. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. The same can be said for Wilford although he is the one who constructed the train it is unfair to give complete power to govern the train to him. As it clearly shows the people left are separated and some have lived more comfortable lives than others. Decisions in a situation like theirs is better left to the consensus of the people.

Snowpiercer blog assignment for Octotober 31st by Andrew Johnson

Since I started watching this movie there has been many scenes and symbols I feel that are important but the one that stands out to me the most is the symbol of the bridge, The bridge plays such a huge role in this movie by every time they pass the bridge it means they have circled around the world again due to it being an ice age one of the characters Yona looks closer trying to find a plane that once crashed there seeing a way to leave the train itself. I feel the overall meaning of this movie is that it is trying to tell you that being stuck at the end of the train treated like prisoners for 18 years, circling around and around the world signals the end of the world and every man and woman has to make a stand to decide what is right for the better most part of the group. The scene helps support this because whenever they cross that bridge everyone knows what it means it means that one whole year has passed again and that they have been around the world. Knowing that it might never end is a scary thought.

SnowPiercer

If in any way I see this adding to the details of the Anthropocene Epoch would be how some of the victims described as "shoes" and "tails" fight for more freedom and make new discoveries as they advance in their journey on the train. This kind of relates as the Anthropocene Epoch was centralized around evolution and advancement of the world.

Snowpiercer Assignment

In the Snowpiercer, there are many symbols placed in the movie. One symbol that stands out from the rest. It may sound a little weird but the guns play a big role. The people on the train said "All of the bullets from their guns have been used from four years ago." The guns symbolize the power and authority. Whatever they want the prisoners to do or go, they use the guns to earn respect. Therefore, weapons gets the other people to do whatever they say in this movie.