School revision session
Pulp Fiction:
Post modern: lack of concrete substance - no obvious genre, no specific message. where there is no real meaning, messages and values:
what it looks, sounds and tastes like.
-Visual aesthetics blurred: combining the 50s, 60s and present day
-Blurring genre conventions
-Fragmentation of narrative
- Intertextual references
-Does not make any comments about society
Narrative;
-Episodic
Pulp fiction resists todorov's narrative structure
A series of mini disruptions to the 5 act structure
-Has central protagonists
-Jules finds spiritual humanity and survives, Vincent does not (is shot by butch)
Fits Todorovian four act structure but challenges traditional hollywood 3 act structure
Atypical protagonists and antagonists - representation of the maverick anti-hero
Typically at the start of the film, cinematography introduces audience to setting. We don't have the establishing shot, close ups to introduce characters.
Colour palette:
Use of red/black, yellow connoting filth in lance's apartment but also the ironic white interior of Mia's house
Non-diegetic soundtrack links narrative eg: "being good isn't always easy" - son of a preacher man.
Editing: Use of long takes to build tension e.g. Adrenalin
Cinematography: use of closeup but ECU e.g.: red mark on mia's chest/cu long take of Jules sucking sprite through a straw
POV - iconic shot of the back of the Marcellus' head talking to Butch (plaster creating narrative enigma)
Sometimes Subversion of the stereotypical connotation of low angle vs high angle e.g. Honey Bunny / pumpkin on table. Low angle is not necessarily post asserting power: for example in the overdose scene.
Long take in the lift.
Significant use of the two shot Eg Jules and vincent establishing character relationships
Wide angle shot 35 mm
use of zoom and deep focus
Burger shoot out scene:
No music
-Humourous dialogue
-characters moving into shot - makes it less realistic and more impressionistic
-oppositional to realism: narrative continuity, shot reverse shot - makes us less effected by the violence
- reference to consumer culture - post modernism
-Extreme closeup of the burger
-Long take of Jules eating the burger
-Obsessive use of swearing
-Challenging the audience, nothing is resolved, the audience never know what was in the brief case.
Auteur features:
-Classic cameos in every film
-obsession with expressionistic representation of violence
-Intertextual
-Like scorsese - he has regular collaborators
-Personal control over use of music
-Personal control over the use of music
-use of the revenge narrative
-long dialogue
-black humour
-reverenge narratives
-recurring shots
-moral ambiguity
Man with a Movie camera:
-Celebrates modernism
-Futurism
-Man with a movie camera is an experimental silent documentary film representing urban life in society cities but in an expressionistic, avant garde (ahead of the game) way.
-Items of clothing: bra clasp, tights, references the ability of soviet russia to engage in modern life
The humour in silent films created by the fast pace movement: speeding up the camera - under-cranking
Sleeping rough and happy, man represents the success of the communist city.
Kino-eye: Movement used the camera lens to ask people to examine what they thought was real/not in cinema - questions notions of cinematic realism - embraces the avant grade. Seen as the only way of representing realism. Against fiction based narratives.
MWAMC links this to movement of the human eye
Shot of someone sweeping up and the clean streets, linked to cleanliness and the future- modernity.
Shows the camera focussing, fetishisation of the camera.
Machinery of modern day life challenges linear filmmaking.
Post modern: lack of concrete substance - no obvious genre, no specific message. where there is no real meaning, messages and values:
what it looks, sounds and tastes like.
-Visual aesthetics blurred: combining the 50s, 60s and present day
-Blurring genre conventions
-Fragmentation of narrative
- Intertextual references
-Does not make any comments about society
Narrative;
-Episodic
Pulp fiction resists todorov's narrative structure
A series of mini disruptions to the 5 act structure
-Has central protagonists
-Jules finds spiritual humanity and survives, Vincent does not (is shot by butch)
Fits Todorovian four act structure but challenges traditional hollywood 3 act structure
Atypical protagonists and antagonists - representation of the maverick anti-hero
Typically at the start of the film, cinematography introduces audience to setting. We don't have the establishing shot, close ups to introduce characters.
Colour palette:
Use of red/black, yellow connoting filth in lance's apartment but also the ironic white interior of Mia's house
Non-diegetic soundtrack links narrative eg: "being good isn't always easy" - son of a preacher man.
Editing: Use of long takes to build tension e.g. Adrenalin
Cinematography: use of closeup but ECU e.g.: red mark on mia's chest/cu long take of Jules sucking sprite through a straw
POV - iconic shot of the back of the Marcellus' head talking to Butch (plaster creating narrative enigma)
Sometimes Subversion of the stereotypical connotation of low angle vs high angle e.g. Honey Bunny / pumpkin on table. Low angle is not necessarily post asserting power: for example in the overdose scene.
Long take in the lift.
Significant use of the two shot Eg Jules and vincent establishing character relationships
Wide angle shot 35 mm
use of zoom and deep focus
Burger shoot out scene:
No music
-Humourous dialogue
-characters moving into shot - makes it less realistic and more impressionistic
-oppositional to realism: narrative continuity, shot reverse shot - makes us less effected by the violence
- reference to consumer culture - post modernism
-Extreme closeup of the burger
-Long take of Jules eating the burger
-Obsessive use of swearing
-Challenging the audience, nothing is resolved, the audience never know what was in the brief case.
Auteur features:
-Classic cameos in every film
-obsession with expressionistic representation of violence
-Intertextual
-Like scorsese - he has regular collaborators
-Personal control over use of music
-Personal control over the use of music
-use of the revenge narrative
-long dialogue
-black humour
-reverenge narratives
-recurring shots
-moral ambiguity
Man with a Movie camera:
-Celebrates modernism
-Futurism
-Man with a movie camera is an experimental silent documentary film representing urban life in society cities but in an expressionistic, avant garde (ahead of the game) way.
-Items of clothing: bra clasp, tights, references the ability of soviet russia to engage in modern life
The humour in silent films created by the fast pace movement: speeding up the camera - under-cranking
Sleeping rough and happy, man represents the success of the communist city.
Kino-eye: Movement used the camera lens to ask people to examine what they thought was real/not in cinema - questions notions of cinematic realism - embraces the avant grade. Seen as the only way of representing realism. Against fiction based narratives.
MWAMC links this to movement of the human eye
Shot of someone sweeping up and the clean streets, linked to cleanliness and the future- modernity.
Shows the camera focussing, fetishisation of the camera.
Machinery of modern day life challenges linear filmmaking.
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