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Show I THE MAGNA TIMES, W EST ' SMIiWWMIO llTjrrtrttte " Zombie Prom "nukes" the Stage at Granger High !r" Ylf i ! I i P(l U ,, i X ' III , i'cri'poi" i I, I, i i 'cl n. i lor i ' ) which she later regrets as she rciivinbcrs the words of her grandmother, who always told her never to forget where she c u: e from This sets up the ending, which I wont give away, but it is a very emotional film. Persepolis was nominated for the Best Animated Feature Academy Award, but lost to Rutatouille, which in my opinion was the right choice, but none the less, Persepolis deserved its nomination and deserves a chance to be seen. The film is beautifully animated in mostly black and which white and is in the stand it out makes really animated films crowd of that have been coming out recently. It is nice to see a film that goes back to traditional animated forms and produces something so gorgeous and mk I OOO ' tt I IO- - g . iimiKiled is ui based on a graphic the sain. name by Both the gruph-- n filu iolkiw the a1 Um personal account of the -. up in ban from child-h- i od to adulthood in the middle ot T, I . me Rev l"tion during :h . la'c lt70s tlnough the early ( .. I f v 'vl n stiiapi and the i l)0!ls I he dm opens when Mar jane i aiotuid nine years old. She n.i. been bom of pa ents who d and teach her aie to v vpiess her opinions at an ea'ly age She is also eiv fascinated w uli hvi' miele who has spent time in prison for being an aetnist in the piotests and fiiStr g acinsi the Asha, the banian leader As Marjanes uncle is arrested again, he is taken to prison and requests to see Marjane one last time, inspiring her to do more and be nioic than just whatever people tell her. s Mai jane mows into a te she deals with what normal teens deal with anywhere m the woi Id She ieb Is against Ini It . ache is when she ha list. ns to punk rock music or heavy metal This ready makes her story ' erv real and relevant b leenag.is and young adults. She wants to live her wav, ihml-mthat she mows every-- d .a w hii I, acts hot into trou- hand-draw- is ble M . nois. is 1 ; il n i. an ink: situation vV at1 con- tinues to rage on, Marjane is scut to toe m Austria to attend school, where she grows into adulthood. Being outspoken gets her into trouble. She expe- iktn.es JVC, heartaches, diugs. 1 and sex, among other things, I hsr M n .mil lu tgvu tor her nee and ha' kgr hes ji a parts to a is aytig to impress. gay ,st n, 3-- D haunting. Zombie Prom, written by Dana Rowe with music by John Dempsey, might not hav e left the Granger High School stage glowing with radioactivity, but the audience, mostly proud family members of the hardworking cast and crew, fellow students, and local community members, surely left aglow in the aftermath of a musical comedy well done. A throwback to the old Saturday afternoon horror flicks with 50's musical elements, Zombie Prom lifted the auditorium in laughing and cheers. This year Granger High has broken from the usual tradition of scheduling musicals in the fall to present a fabulous performance in the early spring. We hav e a new musical director, said Director Brian Fuller. He had a lot of things going, so he wanted to feel things out. We kind of liked to rotate it anyway. This was a year that I normally would have done a fall musical. There are kids that like to play different sports, that like to do musicals, and if we do it at the same time there can be conflicts. It takes the season out a little bit, said Richard smith, who has worked as an orchestrator for Walt Disney productions and is the new musical director. Doing the musical in the spring kind of takes us out of competition w ith the other schools. Christmas is over; all the nasty holiday stuff has gone by. Were not having to fight the time so much. The scheduling isn't the only thing that breaks from what seems to be the standard, but also a little of the inner workings. One wouldnt be accustomed to seeP. leather jacket. I play Jonn Warner, the rebel zombie. I thought the music was really good. I liked the songs and all the music and all the musical instruments. 1 also like being the lead. It means a lot to me. Its your high school years. You cant go back to them just any old time. Its my only opportunity to do it. Its the only chance I could get. Jonathan Chesnut plays a friend of Jonny. Jonny Warner comes to a new school, and basically me and some other friends become buddies with him and hang out and talk to him. Its sort of hard sometimes because I have to yell at everybody and I dont like being mean, but its fun, said Sarah Johnson, who plays Miss Delilah Strict, the principal. 1 play the character also in the of Eddy with French language English dirt a sleazy, bag, Flagrante, subtitles. It is very interesting to chauvinistic reporter, said Isaac see w'hat foreign countries conMacfarlane I just always wanted sider to be artistic and see what to be in a musical. Im a senior their view of a good film acturight now. It means I get to be in ally is. More times than not, the limelight, and with this charforeign countries make films a acter I get to be the humor of the lot better than Hollywood does. play. I was very sad to see two I play Toffee, said Norma groups of people walk out of Pearson. She is Jonnys girlthe theater, leaving me comfriend and shes a twirler and pletely alone in the theater, shes on the pep squad. Shes just because the film was in French. really cheesy. It means a lot. Its They really missed out on a like my second play and probably wonderful film with great mesmy last. Its a big deal to me to sages about being proud to be have this role. who you are and where you Most involved in the play come from, as well as being would respond to it on its most true to yourself, learning from superficial level: a simple comeyour own mistakes, and not leta throwback to the old dy, ting anyone else dictate who horror afternoon ing a lot of directing responsibilSaturday YOU are. as Richard Smith had to students. flicks, ity delegated being for Persepolis is rated PG-1- 3 described it. You know how you a small Its a lot of hands-ov eleiolent thematic language, program, said Fuller, so we would go and spend fifty cents ments, and sexual dialog. have to have the kids do a whole and get an A flick and a B flick, Open-minde- d teens and young lot. I always have a student direcand the B flick was always the adults should really see this bad horror film? Its kind of an tor, and I give a lot of responsifilm because it relates so much them, 1 dont think, they homage to that. Its just that its to what they go through, even bilityastomuch of an experience if funny; there are these get though they live in a country had some pretthat you dont expect all of a suddont. Weve you that isnt being tom apart by den coming at you and hitting ty good ones. civil unrest. The morals are Im the Minnie Brian Fuller, you. said Student Director Lacy But there is a lot more to this Freeman. I do basically everyplay than the comedy. There are darker social, political, and philothing. Ive been running around, helping with costumes, getting sophical voices echoing from the set ready, making sure that deeper places dustier, everyone knows what theyre places that a careful listener on would discern. Its very doing, blocking stage, just a but this the of Im senior, everything. revealing philosophical is my first time directing. Its all lens through which the writer new to me. looks at the American experience Fuller added: Another thing of the Fifties. The entire atmos250-565- 6 that weve got going differently, phere is wrapped in a view that is that the band is on the stage the excitement of the technologi- - Persepolis is n, advertise in the 2008 edition of the To ' and the conductor is not going to be up there with them, so the guy on the piano is actually going to be the band leader, like a band back in the fifties. Joel Whitmer stood in the hall behind the auditorium in his one-line- rs Pied of v.-ii.- A Robert Goble Feature W riter By Persepolis Vitiiuii I5 March 6, 2008 ALLEY NEWS, KEARNS POST Students of Enrico Fermi high dance and sing to the rhythm of their nuclear world. cal advancements of the early to mid 20th century can be boiled down to some "atomic mania, that the threat of nuclear vv ar w ith the Soviet Union was only political manipulation of the masses by a Christian, fascist, conservative. military industrial complex. It is a Doctor Strangclov flavored broth mixed with a leftist colored rewrite of the Fifties American Zeitgeist and fascis-- t dyed Christian American values. Enrico Fermi high, named after the Italian-bor- n Physicist and Nobel Prize recipient that developed the first controlled nuclear chain reaction (an antinuclear bugaboo of the environmentalist left), and who w'as also instrumental in the dev elopment of the first atomic bomb, is a regimented institution ruled by Miss Delilah Strict, a hypocritical authoritarian who marches everyone to the school motto: rules, regulations, and respect. Her preaching is laced with Christian and terms like blessed are praise the lord followed by seize the paddle! Playing a tired theme long worn to bare threads by the Liberal entertainment industry: the children are all straight, clean living, sheep until Jonny - having removed the H, spoiling his good Christian name a lov- jf) , able rebel in a leather jacket comes to town and sweeps little Toffee, baton tw irler and college bound good gnl, off of her feet, causing the rest of the kids to begin to question their social order. Soon her parents and the principal harshly object to their love, and she breaks up with him. He commits suicide by throwing himself into a radioactive cooling pond only to come back as a green zombie. His presence causes the principal to become even more authoritarian until the chaos that she creates is only made right when she relinquishes her grip and accepts and admits her own hypocrisy, following the reasoning that only a conservative can be a hypocrite because he actually tries to live by Christian values and fails, whereas the liberal recognizes no values at all and is treed by moral relativism. Who is the monster, the leather jacket, virtue stealing rebel, or the rigid moral social order that rejects him9 But the band played on; the green zombie found his place in the world; Delilah Strict is strict no more; the prom is a success, and so is the performitself. 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