A recent media text that would be seen as postmodern is 'Quentin Tarantino's film ' Inglorious Basterds'. The film is set during World War 2 and follows the journey of a small group of Jewish Nazi hunters who plan on wiping out the Nazis and ending the war. The use of postmodernism in this film could be seen as manipulating time, this is because the film has a completely fictional story line and plot however it is set during the real world events of World War 2. This could be seen as manipulating time as the events in the film would change the course of history and alters the events of World War 2 to make it nothing like it was in real life. The film manipulates time again as the soundtrack for the film contains pop music from the 1980's which is 40 years after the film is set meaning that the music would not have been invented yet. You would then think that this would be easily spotted and look out of place in film this however is not the case as the music fits in very well and goes almost unnoticed, this then makes the audience think the music is normal for that time period and thus changing their ideas of that time period.
The Hollywood blockbuster film 'Inception' is another film that manipulates time and space, that is almost the main theme of the film. The film revolves around the idea of entering peoples minds through there dreams. As the film progresses the idea of multiple dreams is introduced where they travel to dreams within dreams. To keep track of how many dreams they have entered the song 'Je ne regrette rien' plays in the background and gets slower depending on how many dreams within dreams they have entered. As they enter these dreams time gets slower and slower until a second in the real world can become hours in the dream world. This is an example of manipulating both time and space. During the film the main character played by 'Leonardo DiCaprio' loses track of what is a dream and what is the real world. This is shown when he is meeting with his wife and we see flashbacks of her life. His wife completely loses track of what is a dream and what is a reality and ends up killing herself. At the end of the film the main character is able to go back home to his children, when he arrives he spins his spinning top toy which he uses to keep track of dreams and reality. If it is reality the spinning top will stop spinning and fall over however when he spins it at the end the movie cuts to the credits before we see if the top stops spinning which leaves the audience whether the whole film was set in reality or whether it was a dream.
Another film that could be seen as manipulating time and space is the film 'Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World'. The main theme of the film is to combine the virtual world which is seen in video games and the real world. This is most prominent during the films fight scenes where things you would usually find in a video game are seen. This includes things such as a high score counter, coins from defeating enemies, combo counters etc. The films also uses a comic strip theme using concepts you would find in a comic book such as words appearing to describe actions and any sounds that happen. When characters are introduced in the film a stats or bio box shows up next to them giving background information on them, this is much like a character selection screen in a video game. Could all of these combined show that the film could in fact be set in a video game and not in the real world at all?
Well done Tod. Your examples are getting much clearer. The BIG target is to ensure that you use different media in your response. That means if you use Film you'd then also have to use TV, Music or whatever else we've studied. Use your work on music as a suitable replacement.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to aim for C-A you must include more of the technical vocab (that is the only thing holding this answer back), use the PoMo revision cards I gave out in class to help you.