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[David Walters]

The Roy Clark Story is about a school teacher who leaves N. Carolina
and goes to NYC and gets a job teaching 6th graders in Harlem. All of
his students were deemed failures . Transformation occurs in group of
academic misfits when he challenges them. They end the school
outscoring all the other school in their district on end of year
exam. Also a lot funnier and sexier than Requiem.

David 

>I've been waiting for the chance to rake in some recommendations for
>great MOVIES I haven't yet seen.
>   
>  And, beyond that, I'm compiling a humongous database of all the
>movies I HAVE recently seen on DVD (that I can remember), so that I
>can rate them and flush out my list of the best of the best of the
>best.
>   
>  Beyond that, I'm especially looking for candidates for a new movie
>'course' I'm building on the 'cinema of transformation.' In other
>words, RS-1 without the seminar papers. Or maybe 'secular RS-1 for
>unbelievers.' Or maybe (gasp!) 'RS-1 Lite.'
>
>  For example, I'm considering Kurasawa's Ikiru, which for years I
>didn't even want to see. But when I finally forced myself to check it
>out, what a revelation! The protagonist, a bureaucrat in a
>meaningless do-nothing pass-the-buck government job, gets a terminal
>diagnosis and decides to use his few remaining months to pour out his
>life to get something done to relieve a neighborhood eysore by
>turning a toxic cesspool into a playground. And he dies alone
>swinging on the playground swing, but he's remembered as a saint and
>hero for finally breaking the government logjam that prevented
>compassionate outreach to a community that nobody cared about.
>   
>  So, where in this story would you point to a "life transformed"? Or
>to what in the old days we used to call "effulgence"? And where have
>you witnessed transformation in somebody's life?
>   
>  Please send me other great movie ideas, and if you care to, send
>them to the whole list.
>   
>  Marshall Jones
>  synergi at yahoo.com
>   
>  And if you get to Frisco, you're welcome to come to my screening
>room where we'll be having depth discussion of these, plus free
>popcorn.