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Title: Anyone doing Cosi?
Post by: no steez on December 30, 2012, 05:44:27 pm
Anyone doing the play Cosi?
Hope there's a bunch of you for support haha
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Post by: Mr Keshy on December 31, 2012, 01:03:48 pm
I'm also doing it :) Not a fan of it though. A little interesting, but maybe if I read it again, it might seem better.
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Post by: Jaswinder on December 31, 2012, 01:16:13 pm
YESSS! has anyone read it? :o
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Post by: Mr Keshy on December 31, 2012, 01:17:40 pm
Yepp, I'll probably read it again during the holidays.
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Post by: unfamila on December 31, 2012, 01:31:40 pm
yea im doing cosi, is the film similar to the play?
cbf reading atm
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Post by: Mr Keshy on December 31, 2012, 02:29:20 pm
yea im doing cosi, is the film similar to the play?
cbf reading atm

I think my teacher said it was slightly different. My teacher always tells me to avoid watching the movie remake of a book because when it comes to SAC's you might get confused and all.
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Post by: brenden on December 31, 2012, 03:18:57 pm
I think Cosi is a play yeah? If it is, I would recommend a film viewing, it can assist well with your understanding. Read the play twice before hand so you don't get confused. Unless you're heavy on theatre/plays you can often miss underlying things. Only people who don't care would get confused because they would watch the movie once and read the play once and then not be able to differentiate. Twelve Angry Men was almost an identical movie with subtle differences, I still never got confused.
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Post by: Mr Keshy on December 31, 2012, 03:28:14 pm
I think Cosi is a play yeah? If it is, I would recommend a film viewing, it can assist well with your understanding. Read the play twice before hand so you don't get confused. Unless you're heavy on theatre/plays you can often miss underlying things. Only people who don't care would get confused because they would watch the movie once and read the play once and then not be able to differentiate. Twelve Angry Men was almost an identical movie with subtle differences, I still never got confused.

I just didn't want to take the risk, I was just echoing my teachers words. :) We had a theatre group perform the whole play for us when we were doing Cosi too. It was a lot better than reading the book for sure.
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Post by: brenden on December 31, 2012, 03:39:58 pm
I just didn't want to take the risk, I was just echoing my teachers words. :) We had a theatre group perform the whole play for us when we were doing Cosi too. It was a lot better than reading the book for sure.
oh yeah don't even worry about the movie if you've seen it live. It just helped to view it.
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Post by: Mr Keshy on December 31, 2012, 03:42:40 pm
oh yeah don't even worry about the movie if you've seen it live. It just helped to view it.

Yeah I'm not gonna bother, it was awesome to watch.
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Post by: Charmz on December 31, 2012, 03:48:13 pm
I thought they were getting rid of Cosi. I did it this year and I hated it. You don't even need to read it if you are going to watch the play. I did so well on my cosi sac (it was my second best SAC score) but I hadn't read it (cover to cover anyway, I skimmed through it).
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Post by: Tirana on December 31, 2012, 09:42:12 pm
I'm doing Cosi also! I've read it one so far, and I'll re-read it during the holidays.
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Post by: Mr Keshy on December 31, 2012, 09:52:50 pm
I'm doing Cosi also! I've read it one so far, and I'll re-read it during the holidays.

Like it?
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Post by: Tirana on December 31, 2012, 10:30:55 pm
Like it?

I think it's OK.... If there wasn't any comedy I wouldn't have said OK. :P
Title: Re: Anyone doing Cosi?
Post by: Mr Keshy on January 01, 2013, 01:04:21 am
I think it's OK.... If there wasn't any comedy I wouldn't have said OK. :P

Doug. lol, he carried it.
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Post by: FlorianK on January 01, 2013, 03:10:35 am
I did that book, hated it and hence neglected it for the exam. Hope your second book is mucher better, like in my case
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Post by: Art Vandelay on January 01, 2013, 11:54:41 pm
I did it in 2012, and made a set of notes! But I can't type them up and upload them until I get back to Australia in mid-Feb. I didn't like (hated) the text when we were reading it as a class, but I really enjoyed writing responses and analysing the text. Also, reading Mozart's libretto - 'Cosi Fan Tutte' - was fun, as I was also studying Italian.