Looking Back

This is really going to be an Atomic Café of blog posts. I will plagiarize from just about anything I have ever read or heard, I will call it my own, and then I will splice it together into one quasi-pseudo coherent thought (imbroglio). I had to get that one in for old time's sake.
I did some thinking after the penultimate day of high school and this was by far the most enjoyable semester of class mostly because of film study. Penultimate is a vocabulary word that Mr. Bennett used on the first day of high school and I have never forgotten it. All of those tedious exercises done in English are long since forgotten. So that makes penultimate one of the few vocabulary words I learned from high school and it was in Global. Anyway all my thinking led to the conclusion that it was an absolute honor and pleasure to be a part of this class.
Mr. Bennett, as good as all the films that we saw were, you were the true showstopper of the class. Take some time to think about that last line so you can get a good hearty laugh in. I know Mr. Bennett does not like the new Batman movies but I will quote them because they are more eloquent that I am. Most teachers simply have a class. It can simply be ignored or forgotten but Mr. Bennett has made film more than just a class. He selflessly devoted himself to the ideal of great film and has become something else entirely. He has achieved legendary status. Film has transcended classroom to become uberclass. I did not use the because there are no definite articles in German, according to Sandbag. The eight other periods of the day can not even compare to the forty one minutes of seventh period.
My academy awards would go something as follows.
Best Picture
Film Class -Even more ambitious than the redefinition of the most iconic genre is the redefinition of what it means to teach. Mr. Bennett has raised academia to new heights through sheer will and force of character(as Benny said). Film class is simply not broad enough to cover all of the topics we learned in class. As for me I crossed out Film Class on my program and wrote Class of Everything. Mr. Bennett taught film, existentialism, Latin, nuclear physics, and history among other things.
Best Director
Mr. Bennett -As we all know the director is the sine qua non of great film or anything great for that matter. Mr. Bennett took the screenplay offered to him by those who signed up for the class and truly made it his own. We know from Dark City that any work is more than the sum of its parts. If we all saw these films with a different teacher or on our own for that matter, the experience would have been a huge change from the class. Mr. Bennett simply out Wellesed Welles.
Best Actor
Mr. Bennett -His skill behind the camera is matched and perhaps bested by his work before the camera. Mr. Bennett is undoubtedly the star of his class. He overshadowed every single work he showed. If we spent two school weeks (410) minutes on any film Mr. Bennett spent an entire term (five months) coming in with fresh stories and jokes and he left it all in the classroom every day. Mr. Bennett this class would have been similar (not quite as good but similar) if you had substituted one film for another. But a Class of Everything without you is simply another class on my program that I am apathetic about going to.
Best Supporting Actor
This one is a tie between the professor and mayor. You two had an important role in the class. Because of your intelligent blog postings for about every day of class you earned the best supporting actor award. I simply could not ignore your contributions to the class.
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As the greatest of ubermensch (Mr. Bennett) said “As we go through this journey called life one can only see backward. This means that if you think about life that way it is only about loss. Time takes away what little we possess until it takes all we have.” However we combat this phenomenon through memory. I for one will never lose these memories no matter how much tuning The Strangers subject me to. They are simply too important to give up.
Well this is it folks. As for me nothing will ever return to status quo ante Class of Everything. The All-Star Team was a class for all time. It was truly a life changing experience and an incredible ride. The wild strawberries were delectable but others strawberries await us elsewhere. I wish nothing but success and happiness to the All-Star Team and of course Mr. Bennett. Sic transit gloria mundi, so now we belong to the ages.