Miscellaneous Post 3

I owe my graduating high school in part to the film from which this blog gets it's name. I went to Lima Senior High and it was required for all seniors to complete a senior project of something that they were passionate about. I originally chose to do it on the history of Allen County but soon realized that that would involve sifting through ancient books in the library and the museum, and that it would soon become very boring after much of the industry and things that made Allen County once great were out of the picture. I then chose the history of film. I spent much of my free time watching movies and it combined two of my favorite things: history and movies. One of the requirements of the senior project was that students had to log 25 cumulative hours working on their project. My project adviser said that it was acceptable to watch movies as part of my hour logging. One of the films I watched was The Right Stuff. For me, the film was a three-way combination of things that I enjoy: it was a movie about the history of the space program. Among other films that I watched were Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and The Shining. I also watched Breakfast at Tiffany's, which was the first Audrey Hepburn film I watched.
So thanks in part to a 1983 film about the first astronauts, I passed my senior project and graduated, though that is partially because I watched a bunch of two to three hour long movies. That added up quickly and my 25 hours were over with the stroke of a pen.