Todays activity is meant to prepare you for analyzing the film, which we will be watching when you

return from Spring Break.

Step 1. Review the theoretical lenses of the two sources your group was given:

1) Fromm and Dalrymple 2) Milgram and Dalrymple 3) Fromm and Milgram 4) Zimbardo and Fromm

5) Zimbardo and Dalyrmple.

--What are their key findings/conclusions about obedience versus disobedience? Key Quotes?

Step 2. Finding an appropriate test object in order to test the key findings/conclusions of your two
sources. This could be a TV show, a movie, a phenomenon of human behavior, an historical event, a
current event, etc.

Step 3. Pose an Inquiry Question that would give your paper work to do. Think of interesting
questions raised by the test object in relation to your two sources. Then focus on the one that
will allow you to do the most work. Weak Question: How does TEST OBJECT relate to the
Milgrams and Fromms findings? We could all make those obvious connections. For me,
outliers/anomalies/contradictory moments, etc., help me generate strong questions.
QUESTIONS (Underline the one you feel would be the most interesting to tackle).
Information from your essay assignment: Your paper will put your two sources (Milgram and
Zimbardo, for example) in conversation to shed light on your inquiry question. You will use the
film to test the findings and principles raised by your sources. You will be bringing in the ideas of
your sources because doing so enable you to address the issue raised for you by the viewing and
analysis of A Few Good Men. Your analysis expands and complicates readers understanding of
the cinematic representation of obedience and of the issues of obedience in the larger sense. As
you can see, the strength of your question, which in a sense almost functions as your thesis,
determines the strength of your analysis, which in in turn determines the strength of your overall
paper. Select the path of most resistance, as this usually leads you to unique insight, allows you
to do work, (as theres resistance), and allows you to complicate the issue of obedience and
authority.
ONCE YOU FINISH THIS STEP, YOURE DONE FOR TODAY. THE FOLLOWING GIVES YOU A PREVIEW
AS TO WHAT YOULL BE DOING WITH THE FILM, A FEW GOOD MEN.
Step 4. Selection of Scenes: Review your notes from each scene. Pick three-four representative
scenes that you think will help you address this question.
Step 5. Additional Notes on Scenes: Depending on the depth of your notes, you may need to re-
watch some scenes. Use YouTube, as many of them are there. You can also come in before/after
school to watch scenes as well. As you watch the scenes, just write down what you notice. Try
and make at least 10 observations about each scene. The more observations you make, the
more material you have to work with and analyze.

Step 6. Analysis of Scenes as a Whole:

Step 4 (a): Perform The Method on your selected scenes as a whole.
Step 4 (b): What do these scenes, as a whole, suggest (in relation to Parker and/or
Milgram)?
Step 7. Analysis of Scenes Individually:
Step 5 (a): Perform The Method on each selected scene.
Step 5 (b): 10-1 and/or Notice and Focus
Step 5 (c): What does each individual scene suggest?
Step 5 (d): Is there conflicting evidence?
Step 8 Thesis: An interpretative claim developed by your analysis, as well as concerns your
selected question. Your thesis may include your question, and then how you will address this
question. Theres not a formula here. At this point, you should know what a strong thesis looks
like.
That being said, here is an example of a weak thesis, as well as a stronger thesis. Please note that
its simply a stronger thesis (aka: not perfect). These thesis statements are for a comparative
analysis paper, with the test object being Maid in Manhattan.
Weak: The film Maid in Manhattan completely revises the traditional Cinderella myth in that
Jennifer Lopezs character, even though she gets her prince, is driven by the need to make her
own career.
(not working closely with details and complicating evidence)
Stronger: While film viewers rejoice that the Latina hotel maid Marissa Ventura works to move
up in the workplace rather than wait for a prince to rescue her, the film narrative still fits the
Cinderella genre, particularly in the ways in which sibling rivalry and a fairy godmother function
in Marissas achievement of her goals.
(considers to what extent are they similar, similarity within a difference, lens)

Step 4: