Thursday 30 January 2014

Essay Plan

Inglorious Basterds 


  • Differs from a traditional war film- removes traditional aspects and adds humour
  • No fear within the film- quite comical
  • David Bowie song was released after a long period of time after the film was set- out of the time period- quite unusual
  • Opening scene is very similar to The Sound Of Music (French dairy farm)- it is very subtle and goes deep into intertextuality 
  • On screen text- colourful, isn't shown on conventional war films- used to identify certain characters- cartoon effect
  • Film within a film (links to Inception)
  • Tarantino's foot fetish- Cinderella shoe- a fairytale element
  • Chapters- all with different fonts
  • Frederick Jameson- 'historical deafness'
Inception 

  • Manipulation of time and space- dream within a dream
  • Real world slows down, in the dream state time becomes quicker
  • Disrupts linear structure
  • Mixes up time and space
  • What happens in the space that only takes a few minutes is stretched to hours for the audience
  • Not being able to distinguish between what is real and what is a dream- 'hyperreality'- cannot differentiate the differences 
  • 'Inception'- planting an idea into someones head- puts in the audiences head whether or not they are in a dream- it questions reality
  • Jacques Derrida- "The centre doesn't exist naturally, but rather because we need it to, in order to make sense of the world around us". 

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