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chaplin's comedy method
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1. character-based comedy
2. the Tramp who is poor and ambitious 3. social awareness (reference to humble beginnings 4. static camera (proscenium) |
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what is character based comedy
who used it who didnt |
comedy based around central character
chaplin (the tramp) sennet (just random clowns) |
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chaplin's character? descrip
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the tramp
- ambitious, thinks of himself as much more than a tramp - drives and structures narrative with his ambitions |
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why does chaplin use social awareness themes
what films are exampels |
humble beginnings
the immigrant (mirrors his own humble beginnings) easy street |
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which of chaplin's films is basically his life story
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the immigrant
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the point of chaplin's film city lights clip shown?
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shows use of depth (composition in depth) as a gag
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in which of chaplin's films is depth the gag? how?
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depth is gag, tramp can pretend to be appreciator of art
stepping back and forth to admire the nude |
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how did b keaton start?
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family in vaudeville
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keaton's comedy method
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1. character based
2. character drives and structures narratve 3. fluid, mobile camera |
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keaton's character? descrip
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"the great stone face"
wants the status quo to continue, little character pushed into chaotic world |
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diff between keaton + chaplin
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chaplin: social awareness, proscenium
keaton: fluid, mobile camera; very cinematic |
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example of keaton's cinematics
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the general: being on the train moving
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what is the point of steamboat bill jr. clip
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showing the character is helpless ina calamitous world (jsut trying to return to the status quo)
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who did steamboat bill jr
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b keaton
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why are there no more keatons and chaplins.
who is the closest to them today |
no vaudeville (training ground)
jackie chan |
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which 2 clips were compared between keaton + jackie chan
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sherlock jr.
police story same bill |
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what did jackie chan do when he got his own movies instead of stunting
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did bruce lee, except funny. like how sennett turned the chase into a gag
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how did jackie chan start
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acting school in Chinese Opera Research Institute, became a stuntman/choreographer
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what happened in hk cinema 1950s
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they had domestic market, selling to themselves, graduall started exporting
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what happened in hk cinema 1970s
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international distribution, kungfu films are international cinema
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how does hk cinema go back to silent slapstick?
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1. series of stunts/gags
2. improvisational 3. undercranking trick |
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what is project a's significance
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cites keaton and chaplin as influences
- bike stunts |
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who was dominant cinema before wwi
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france, england, italy, us, germany
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who was dominant cinema after wwi
who was the biggest competition to this |
us (europe suffered)
germany |
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what was the german golden age question
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can subjective reality be represented by film?
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what was the ufa
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german state-sponsored national studio
brought best filmmakers in europe together |
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what does ufa stand for
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universum film ag
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what were the types of ufa films?
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- epics (historical ,mythological)
- expressionist - street/reality based |
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what were epic films of ufa
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huge blockbusterish films of german myths
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purpose of the clip madame dubarry
d.? |
purpose is to show the huge cast that they could do because people would do anything for a meal
Ernst Lubitsch |
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how did germany compete with us film after the war
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- made films that hollywood couldn't or wouldn't make
(e.g. Madame Dubarry - use of the masses) |
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purpose of the clip siegfried
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the mythological films of ufa
fritz lang |
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from caligari to hitler?
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kracauer's hypothesis: that a nation's film reveal its character.
mythological films reestablished national pride and identity (need to find who they were again because of German defeat in wwi & ii) |
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what did fritz lang direct
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siegfried
m! |
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who was kracauer
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wrote from caligari to hitler
- films tell you about nation's character - mythological films remind you who you are (since the germans felt lost after the world wars) and reestablish national identity |
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what is impressionism
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artist's impression of the world
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what is expressionism
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expression of turbulent inner feelings
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what type of film is the cabinet of dr caligari
how do you know |
german expressionism
- the countryside is warped, the insane asylum (office, lines on the fllor) |
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what is the thing about the cabinet of dr. caligari
who wrote it |
erich pommer changed the end to not be critical of authority
- Janowitz & Mayer wrote it |
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what are some german expressionism films
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- cabinet of dr. caligari (janowitz + mayer, pommer)
- nosferatu (murnau) |
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what is kammerspeilfilm
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one of the types of german films in the german golen age; stories of ordinary people
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an example of a kammerspielfilm
d., d.p. |
the last laugh, d. murnau, d.p. karl freund
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whats the thing about the last laugh
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story of an ordinary guy who gets demoted at work (identity is taken away)
very cinematic (karl freund) - the beginning: elevator, out the glass doors - the shot that goes from the inside of the trumpet up the cable to an els |
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karl freund
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d.p. the last laugh, took the camera anywhere!
"unchained camera" shots: the beginning: on a bike out the revolving doors : the trumpet going from ecu to els subjective camera: POV (morning after in The Last Laugh), this is emotional |
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what is significant about the morning after in the last laugh
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subjective camera (question of the german golden age) - shows from the doorman's point of view the drunkenness (blurring the trumpet, drunken, exaggerated, idealistic dream)
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formal characteristics of the german golden age
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expressionism!
- low key lighting (eg Nosferatu, M) - Oppressive set design, that is commentary (distortion, massive architecture, cluttered set design) |
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purpose of the metropolis clip
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massive architecture makes the people insignificant
also the workers are eaten by the monster machine fritz lang |
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purpose of the destiny still
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woman is dwarfed against the wall
fritz lang |
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examples of how architecture is used formally in german expressionism
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destiny: woman dwarfed against huge wall
metropolis: tiny people v. big buildings |
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what does cluttered set decoration say
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character is confused and lost (morally & psychologically disoriented)
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3 featuers of oppressive german set design
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distortion, massive architecture, cluttered set decorations
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example of cluttered set decoration
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the blue ange: clutter in the nightclub means emotional clutter in the character
M: cluttered toy store still |
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signif of The Blue Angel clip
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shows oppressive set design, of german expressionism, that it indicase internal turmoil in teh character (moral disorientation)
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what is the purpose of the cluttered toy store still in M
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shows that the character is internally disturbed or disoriented
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what does the stair motif mean
where is it used |
lost characters that are suspended between 2 worlds
in M, where elsie is deemed missing |
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what are overarching themes of german golden age cinema
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- ambivalence to authority (cabinet of dr. caligari)
- characters caught between good and evil (professor in blue angel) - obsessed characters unable to control desires (M) |
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german golden age?
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- low key lighting
- oppressive set design - overarching themes (ambivalence to authority, caught between good and evil, the obsessed unable to repress desires) - failure to control yourself (you need someone to tell you what to do) |
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what caused the end of the german golden age?
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- financial problems
- rise of the nazis (control of media) - talent drain (good for hollywood) |
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what was german golden age's impact on hollywood?
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- talent left
- karl freund went there! (dracula, dr jekyll and mr hyde, the mammy) - genre shaping films (the drama/mystery, science fiction, horror) |
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german golden age and mise-en-scene
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lighting
set design art decoration subjective camera --> created emotions |
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modern example of how mise-en-scene creates internal states
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blade runner (futuristic planes)
stair motif |