Phake Tweets- The Lion King

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Mufasa- All is well today in the circle of life, except my brother keeps nagging me. I swear he will be the death of me…

Rafiki- @The_Lion_King Deez coconuts agree! But death is not the end of you Mufasa! HEEHEEHEE

Timone + Pumba- @The_Lion_king Dont listen to the monkey! His head is an empty coconut. BTW You gotta check out this grub! A meal for a king!

Simba- @The_Lion_King Pshaw Dad we’re lions! We eat wildebeasts for breakfast. How could you ever be stopped?

Scar- Fools….

The Assignment-

I did Cogdog’s Phake Tweets fanfic assignment . For this assignment, you must use the twister tool to create a fake conversation between famous people. For mine I chose the Lion King.

The Story-

I have probably seen this movie over 50 times in my life. I remember watching it back and forth multiple times a day as a child. I have seen this even more after my two little sisters started watching it as often as I did. These characters are ones that have stuck with me throughout my life. This conversation that I made between them is a foreshadowing for Mufasa’s demise.

Although his downfall was sad, it was necessary as well. I say this because the Lion King follows Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Story.

Think of any epic story or movie you have seen. These stories may seem totally different but actually has a lot of similar themes. According to Joseph Campbell, any hero story is actually the same story told in different ways. One aspect of this universal story is that of the Master, and the death of the master. In this event, The powerful, protective character dies, leaving the hero alone and unguided. Many examples come to mind- Obi Wan Kenobi of Star Wars, Gandalf of the Lord of the Rings, Dumbledore of The Harry Potter series are the most popular ones. In all of these example, the mentor or the powerful protector dies, leaving the heroes to fend for themselves finally. In doing so, they learn more about themselves and grow from it. So too is the death of Mufasa for Simba.

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Tweetz

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Feeling a little twittery, I’ve decided to go ahead and do the Phun with Phake Tweets DS106 assignment. It involves a couple simple steps. Coming straight from the DS106 assignment page, all you have to do is “Use the Twister tool from ClassTools to generate a series of images representing the voices of past figures if they could express themselves in twitter. Notch it up, and recast a historical event with a new plot line, and notch it up again, but making it a back and forth between two figures (use @person!) – my example is not developed as a fanfic, but should give you an idea of what to do (okay, okay, I will do a real assignment, sigh).”

So for my spin on things, I chose to do a conversation with some well known historical figures, Socrates and Plato. The fake conversation I made between them concerns the trial that Socrates went through that eventually condemned him to death. Plato, a disciple of Socrates, is the person who we have to thank for putting most of that account in written record. If you guys aren’t that familiar with the either Socrates or Plato, I do advise reading up on them to at least familiarize yourself with some of our most beloved ancient philosophers. So just click the links below to see what I wrote!

What I wrote is definitely historically accurate.

*cough*

Definitely.

Socrates

 

Plato

I hope you enjoyed that tweet on history! Did you notice how Socrates and Plato look shockingly similar? Must of been that ol’ Greek Physique! Ahaha…

Feel free to leave any comments below! Thanks!

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DS106-Phake Tweets

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@SteveJobs comments:   “Why join the Navy when you can become a pirate?”

                       @LayzLay24 comments: Why graduate college, when you can become rich without a degree?
 
@MuhammadAli comments:   “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”
                         @LayzLay24 comments: Why float like a butterfly, when you can sting like a bee?
@DickChaney comments:   “Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.”
                       @LayzLay24 comments:  Why tell the truth, when it’s much more fun to lie?

@Jack Nicholson comments:   “There’s only two people in your life you should lie to….the police and your girlfriend.”

 
                    @LayzLay24 comments:  Why don’t you tell that to Dick Cheney?
@Dale Evans Rogers comments:   “Happy trails to you, until we meet again.”
 
                         @LayzLay comments:  Enough said brother….
THE ASSIGNMENT:  The original assignment was to use the Twister tool from ClassTools to create “fake”  Twitter accounts to attempt to re-create the voices of past figures, and imagine how they would express themselves in twitter.  Then,  recast a historical event with a new plot line,  but making it a back and forth between two figures.
THE PROCESS:  The way I decided to do this assignment is a little bit different…………
As I was going over the original assignment, I decided to incorporate my own personal ideas,  seeing this as a good opportunity to be creative.  Instead of only using past figures, I decided to find famous quotes from people in the past and  present, and use that as a basis for these twister pages.  I then created “fake” Twitter accounts on Twister for the people who I am quoting, and used their quotes to make it seem as if they tweeted it themselves.   I didn’t like the way that the Twister page set this up, so I  re-created the information   in a way that makes it seem as if I am the person commenting back on their tweets.  If you click the link below the pictures it will take you to the original twister pages that I’ve created for each quote.
THE STORY: I saw this as a great opportunity to comment on some of the famous quotes from the past and present, and voice some of my own opinions.  It was meant to be funny, although, some may not understand my humor…anyway enjoy!

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Phake Tweets

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_cokwr: Use the Twister tool from ClassTools (http://classtools.net/twister/) to generate a series of images representing the voices of past figures if they could express themselves in twitter. Notch it up, and recast a historical event with a new plot line, and notch it up again, but making it a back and forth between two figures (use @person!) - my example is not developed as a fanfic, but should give you an idea of what to do (okay, okay, I will do a real assignment, sigh)., _cpzh4: Fanfic, _cre1l: http://cogdogblog.com/2011/03/17/phake-tweets/, _chk2m: CogDog, _ciyn3: 99, _ckd7g: , _clrrx: , _cztg3:
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This assignment is fake tweeting; imagine, what would you tweet if you were a famous historical person?

As Cleopatra, I tweet “

So, which one should I do before I attract Caesar…breast implant or making my nose taller?”

I assume she would be cosmetic surgery freak if she was in modern world.

YES!!!! I’ve successfully attracted Caesar and now he’s my husband! the world belongs to me!!!

I cannot imagine how big diamond she would ask him to buy.


Here, I tweet as Caesar.

Sure, honey. What else do you want? @ Cleopatra


and Cleopatra again,

THIS WORLD!!!!!! @ Caesar

She wants engage ring and world for their marriage.

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Fanfic Submit an Assignment

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For my third Submit an Assignment, I decided to go with CogDog’s suggestion of using Twister to make fake Tweets.  As a White Sox fan, there’s nothing better than poking fun at the Cubs and their miserable existence as eternal loser.  Nothing speaks to this more than the Bartman Ball incident from 2003 so I played on that a little bit.  You can check it out here MyPdfFile

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