Senior Griffin Presnell is passionate about two things in life. Speech and movies. He, one of the speech team captains, encourages everybody to join. “It’s a really fun activity to do, it helps with skills in speaking and it looks really good on a college application,” Presnell said.

Joining speech does not come easily at first. “[You’re] always on that grind in the speech life,” says Presnell. “[You’re] either going to be done [writing your speech] at midnight or done at 6 in the morning, especially if you have to do those one after the other.”

Griffin also loves movies as much as, maybe even more than, speech. He loves to watch movies and on top of that, collect them. As for his favorite movie of all time, it has to be “Blade Runner.” “[Blade Runner] shows how film can be a medium for art. It doesn’t need to be about action or a romance, it’s just art and the plot follows that art.”

His favorite movie of 2017 though should come as no surprise, as it is the long-awaited sequel to “Blade Runner,” 35 years after the original, “Blade Runner: 2049.” “I wasn’t a fan of Blade Runners 2 through 2048 but this one really got me,” jokingly said Presnell. “2049 is the year that it takes place in, this one further proved that Blade Runner is more about putting art to the screen than putting things people want to see on screen than say, Transformers.”

Another one of the movies he liked last year was “Logan.” A continuation of Wolverine’s story from the X-Men movie franchise, Presnell would highly recommend it. “[Logan] made unstoppable characters like Wolverine and turned them into old men who have lived their lives to the fullest, and now we’re seeing their lives into a close.”

And of course, most film buffs love making jokes about the less stellar movies that came out, with Presnell saying, “Now we have to call it the Oscar nominated ‘Boss Baby.’”