"A Polite Way of Being Desperate" - an Interview with Marjane Satrapi

     I really enjoyed this interview. Though I knew we were going to watch the movie in class, reading about the actual movie in this interview was very helpful. The fact that the movie is animated was news to me, for some reason I had pictured it being live action. But now I'm even more interested in watching the movie knowing this. I loved the way the comic flowed, and I feel that the movie will flow similarly. Also, reading Satrapi's answers to the interview questions was pretty enlightening; she seemed very knowledgeable, but also at the same time very opinionated and outspoken. She took each question with ease, but also didn't hesitate to answer firmly if she felt the need to. I agreed with much of what she said; and I enjoyed hearing her perspective of what it was like to turn her comic into a movie.