Whiplash Movie Reflection

In all honesty, I did not believe that I would like this movie when we began watching it. It did not seem
that interesting to me. What could be interesting about a drummer attending a music school, right? I was
wrong. After watching the movie, it became one of my all time favorite movies and I have re watched it
various times. I loved the lighting in particular in this movie. The blue and yellow lighting drew me in;
and I liked the fact that the majority of the shots were very dark. It gave the scenes more of serious,
intense feelings. Though I liked the lighting, what truly interested me was the character development of
both Fletcher and Andrew. My first impressions of Fletcher at the beginning of the movie when he was
watching Andrew drumming alone were that he was someone who was important to the school and his
opinion meant a lot to Andrew. The second time we saw him, I thought that he was kind and went about
teaching his musicians in proper, traditional ways; I didn't think he would be nearly as aggressive as he
actually turned out to be. I was shocked when he began to yell insulting comments to a student, making
the student leave when the student was not in fault of anything. when Andrew first entered his band, I
thought maybe Fletcher showed some sort of favoritism for Andrew because he was being civil to him,
but then he began screaming at Andrew. I think this is so interesting because Fletcher has somewhat of
the right intentions, and he truly believes that he is doing what is right to push the students to become
better musicians through emotional and verbal abuse. The complexity of his character is deep because he
appears to be kind and then he turns in the complete opposite way, even though his intentions are good; it
is almost a bipolar character twist. Andrew on the other hand is an extremely passionate young man, and
he is literally willing to risk anything to keep his spot and impress Fletcher. He dumped his girlfriend so
he could devote more time to drumming, he pulled himself out of a crashed car which he was injured in
so that he could make a concert on time, and he took a risk at the closing show in the end by drumming as
much as he could while there were scouts out there who could ruin his music career with a snap of a
finger. Yes, the lighting and shots were interesting and drew me in, but it was overall the character types
and development that drew me in and mad me love this movie so much; I loved seeing the two
completely different characters' worlds collide at once to create music and a bond that were both
beautiful.
What are some Types of Prime Numbers?
There are many many different types of prime numbers. Wikipedia has a long list of them here. Here are some of the
more common types:
Mersenne Primes
Mersenne primes are primes of the form Mp = 2p - 1. Mersenne primes have been around for a long time... they
were even considered by Euclid in Ancient Greece. One fun fact about them, a Mersenne number may only result in
a Mersenne prime when you use a prime number as an exponent! If you use a composite number as the exponent,
it's been proven the resulting number will not be prime. So far we've found 47 Mersenne primes, but it's been
conjectured there are an infinite number of them! The largest one found to date is equal to 243,112,609 - 1. It has
12,978,189 digits. Now that's a large number!
Twin Primes
Twin primes exist whenever two primes have a difference of 2. So if p is prime, and p ± 2 is prime, that constitutes a
prime pair. A few examples of prime pairs are 3 and 5, 5 and 7, and 11 and 13. The largest known twin primes
are 3756801695685 x 2666669 ± 1. These numbers have 200,700 digits! The twin prime conjecture states that
there are infinitely many primes p such that p + 2 is also prime. However, this is only a conjecture, it's not known
whether or not it's true! Maybe that's one conjecture you'll someday prove or disprove!
Primorial Primes
Primorial primes are a little harder to explain than the other types above. It makes sense that a good way to find
prime numbers would be to multiply prime numbers together, and then add or subtract one. Why? Because you know
the resulting number won't be divisible by any of the primes you just multiplied together! For example, let's take the
3rd primorial numbers, which are made up by multplying the first 3 prime numbers together and adding or subtracting
1. These numbers are 2 x 3 x 5 ± 1, which equals 29 and 31. Both of these are prime! The largest known primorial
prime today is the 843,301ist primorial number (subtracting 1), which has 365,851 digits!