See the following note from Dr. Mazzone regarding your papers due this Thursday. We'll discuss more tomorrow. (And don't forget about the blog for tonight. See the PROMPT.)
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What you want to talk about is up to you--there's a lot to notice in the film. Whatever you notice, however, should be in the service of an argument you're making about Scott's purpose as a director. So what is he trying to show us? Something about individuality in the context of a social system that demands submission? Something about leadership and the voice of the "people"? Or maybe you can say something about the significance of the film to contemporary audiences--what does Rome mean to people seeing this film? What is the function of the action sequences in the film? What does the film say about violence, and how does it manipulate the audience into its vision about violence?
*[THESE ARE JUST SOME EXAMPLES. You need to pick a manageable and specific topic that YOU can write well about.]
The critical thing is to have a thesis--something to argue. Once you have that, everything you observe, whether technical or design-oriented, should be in service of that argument. You're not writing a review--so not a lot of superlatives about the production values, the battle scenes, or the wonderful acting. Rather, you want to explain how all those elements contribute to make the movie mean what you say it means.
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