Wednesday, May 2, 2012

The Children's Crusade


Yes, I do believe the children's crusade happened, perhaps not exactly as the author describes it, but I did find a seemingly reputable website that has a similar story. I think that people back in those days really believed that God could speak to them and was telling them what to do with their lives, the children did not want to be left out of this amazing event.  So, yes, I do believe this happened, to what extent, I do not know.
Source:
http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/children.html

Roll of Thunder...as a MOVIE!

Sound Track:

Son House- Grinnin’ In Your Face
    http://youtu.be/QA8-ZOuKetU 
Bob Dylan (Covered by Rage Against The Machine)-Maggie’s Farm    
Johnny Cash- Don’t Take Your Guns to Town  

I chose these songs for the way they resemble the story. Son House’s song, really reminds me of the part in the story where Mr. Logan is telling Cassie that she needs to figure out how to behave when around the girl from school who was mean to her. The song Maggie’s Farm, well, I think we are all pretty familiar with it, but I chose the Rage Against the Machine cover of it, because I feel like it portrays the feelings in the book about how they own their own farm and how they are not going to give it up for anyone. The Johnny Cash song is great because it reminds me of them Hammer was going to go find the Simmes and Mama and Big Ma were asking him not to go.
Cast:

Dennis Haysbert-Mr. Logan

Michael Clark Duncan- Mr. Morrison

Lisa Bonet (when she was younger)- Cassie

Jaden Smith- Stacey

Dule Hill-T.J.

Andy Griffith- Mr. Granger

Martin Lawrence- Big Ma

Rupaul- Mama

Stage design:

I would love to have a moving walkway for actors to walk on as if it is the dirt road in the farm fields, you would see the school house, homes and Jeremy's tree house in the background.
The Logan home would also be an installment , with a fireplace and a porch off to the side, it would a sliced open profile of the house so you can see the front porch, inside and back of the house.