Socrates’ Excellent Adventure: (My thoughts on the paper and thoughts on the movie after reading the paper)

At first when I started reading this article I was not completely sure why the article mentioned Plato’s allegory of The Cave, until I remembered what the cave was about that Nisbet gave a little more information as to where she was going with this.  When Nisbet says, “Plato would have hated cinema.” I don’t think that Plato would have really hated the Cinema.  Maybe he would have hated the idea of it but ultimately would have used it for his own advantage.  I think that Plato would of used the cinema to make a film advertising what his ideal world would look like.  Just imagine how much more influence Plato could have had if he would to have used films to his advantage.  What would we think about Greece now if Plato had used films to promote his beliefs? Before I read this article I had just finished watching Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and I had thought that it was a good movie.  After watching the movie and reading this article, I went back to some of the mentioned scenes from when Bill and Ted go to Greece for Socrates and realized that a lot of the points that were made in the article were right.  Scenes are a second too long and when the scene is just with the people from Athens, it really does not look like a good film.  The moment that Bill and Ted are introduced to that time era all I found myself thinking about was, “Oh boy what are these two going to do next?” throughout the whole film I just kept waiting to see how Bill and Ted were going to be able to pass their history report and not fail.  When Nisbet mentions that Socrates, or ‘So-Crates’ like Bill and Tell like to call him, leaves willingly and happily with Bill and Ted made me realize that even Socrates was playing into the perspective that we have about ancient Greece.  Socrates leaving Athens made me think that ancient Greece was so boring that even he id not want to be there.  Also when I think back to the scene with Billy the Kid, the scene was also a lot longer and with the scene in ancient Greece the scene seemed rush and what was there seemed too long.