The controversial writer and independent filmmaker Mike McCarthy came to the University of Memphis last Tuesday as a guest speaker. Even though students were anticipating a lecture revealing insight to his latest film Cigarette Girl and how taking a written piece of literature and turning it into a film works, Mike McCarthy presumably had other intentions. He touched very little on his film only giving students information on what it was about and the characters in it. He was mostly concerned with promoting himself, his other works, and his controversial views on pop culture and education. Students did learn about the writers dysfunctional past and how his obsession with comic books led to his career of drawing comics as an adult. He uses his past for inspiration and tells students aspiring to be artists and writers that you have to take that messed up part of your life and rip it wide open and work with it and that's were creativity and inspiration comes from. He even goes as far to criticize schools and colleges and encourages students to drop out because all they need to know, they will learn from experience in the real world. Even though it was a very interesting lecture, I believe that it was not necessarily the lecture most attending students were expecting.
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