Film Studies

- Opening of Scorpion documentary vignetting where 2 lovers are trying to consummate their relationship at a religious ceremony - this mocks a Catholic Church- juxtaposition of surrealist images. - The adverts coming to life - a womans hand is pleasuring herself and the stockings advert where the man is transfixed, which shows sexual themes of the film - The milk cow being dragged into womans bed - Toe sucking scene- The marble statue in the garden - The orgy in the castle- Alludes to Marquis de Sade- 120 days of Sodom. A bearded man resembles Jesus, who comforts a younger woman who has run out from the castle, before he takes her inside. Afterwards a womans scream is heard and he is beardless. the concluding image is a Christian Cross with the scalps of women. L'Age D'or L'Age D'or can translate to 'The Golden Age' or Age Of Gold' The story of L'Age D'or is a surrealist tale of a man and woman who are in love with each other however their attempts o...

  Un shien Andalou: - The film seems to go on in random scenes as it never follows what is expected/normal - The scenes feel random and confusing, which is why  Buñuel was considered one of the  greatest  pioneers of this movement, because everything feels out of the ordinary  or out of place while simultaneously making sense. Narrative theory... what is it? - Narrative is the content of the story (what is happening in the theory) - Narrative is the form used to tell the story There are 2 ways to describe parts of narrative structure are: -  Story - Plot Story refers to the events that happen in the narrative Story: spacial (location) & temporal (time) diegesis (from the story world) What event starts the story? (Inciting incident) Who are the main characters in the story?  What conflict do that face? What is at stake? What happens to the characters as they face this conflict? What is the outcome on this conf...

 Todorov narrative structure: - equilibrium - disequilibrium - disruption of disequilibrium - action against disequilibrium - restoration of new equilibrium Pam cook's Cause and effect - Linearity  cause and effect with an overall trajectory of enigma resolution Joseph Campbell - heroes journey - stages to reach the prize or the elixir Claude-levi-strauss - Binary opposites - Hero vs villain] Bartes narrative codes -Action code - Enigma code Propp -Character - Stock roles Mckee -Force that excites an incident

 - Opening key scene: Madeleine being followed - Second key scenes: Fake fall off of the cliff (where she allegedly fell) - Third key scenes : Psychedelic dream sequence - Final key scene is when Madeleine dies. Question planning: Introduction: Vertigo was tired by Alfred Hitchcock in 19 Vertigo was produced in 1958 and was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Performance refers to 

                                                                                                                        

  The Gold Rush was directed by Charlie Chaplin in 1925 during the silent era of film. Mise-en-scene refers to what is in the frame and is used by directors to produce different messages and emotions and values. At the time that The Gold Rush was directed, technology was far behind where it is today and didn’t allow sound and video to be recorded at the same time, which led to mise-en-scene being a relient feature of the films as it had to create meaning to form a strong narrative – an example where mise-en-scene is used is the opening scene of the film where Big Jim find a huge deposit of gold on his land when a blizzard hits, where The Prospector gets lost in the same blizzard while aiming to get gold. He gets blown into the cabin of Black Larsen, who is a wanted criminal, and Larsen tries to throw the Prospector out until Jim also stumbles inside. Larsen attempts to scare both out using his shotgun but is not as powerful as jim and all 3 agree to truce to keep warm inside the ca...

Travelled through space and time to explore the multiverse and is in a white room with old style furniture, as he begins exploring he doesn't know what happened. He looks in a mirror and begins to hear somebody breathing heavily and goes to investigate only to find                                 There is a monolith in the room with an eery silence which is non-diegetic. He touched the monolith which turned him into a foetus and sent him back to Earth.  The scene was described by Kubrick as a human zoo as zoos are decorated strangely and It gave the idea that Kubrick wanted to see if humans evolution was controlled by a high being, as in the opening scene the apes were only able to use tools after touching the monolith.