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Appreciating Cinema

Appreciating Cinema. Hohhot2012a.weebly.com Movie Review: Action Films Bond Films (1962 - 2012). Appreciating Cinema. Mid-term exam. 20% November 26. NEXT WEEK 30 min. long Assignments 30% many missing! Final exam 50%. Extra Class on Tuesday Dec. 25th, 7pm.

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Appreciating Cinema

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  1. Appreciating Cinema Hohhot2012a.weebly.com Movie Review: Action Films Bond Films (1962 - 2012)

  2. Appreciating Cinema • Mid-term exam. 20% November 26. NEXT WEEK 30 min. long • Assignments 30% many missing! • Final exam 50%. • Extra Class on Tuesday Dec. 25th, 7pm

  3. Appreciating Cinema • If you did not put your student number on an assignment, please do so, and hand them back in for marks. • When marking, I will ignore your lowest mark.

  4. Appreciating Cinema Please check the class list at the front. Add your name and student number if you are not on the list. • Write in the “Present Tense” whenever possible. Not in the “past tense”. • Original work = 7 to 10 • Slightly copied work = 0 to 6

  5. Action movies Other Action movies: • The Towering Inferno (1974) • Close Encounters (1977) • Star Wars (1977) • Speed (1994) • Stallone and Schwarzenegger movies

  6. Action movies Why do people like them?

  7. Action movies

  8. Action movies What defines an Action film? • Image and technology dominate • Narration, dialogue, characters are simple • Self-depreciating humor. A tone that is light-hearted an irreverent. i.e. witty Bond one-liners (jokes), and comic book characters in Star Wars.

  9. Bond films - overview • 23 films. • $12 billion revenue (2011 $) • Every film has made money • Bond films influenced culture – fast action, and one-liner jokes. • Created the “sequel” movie. • The plots remain the same.

  10. Bond films - overview • A classless hero for the egalitarian era • A symbol of the sexual liberation • An example of consumer consumption Bond films stayed relevant by changing with the times. Ie. Fighting the Soviets, Drug cartels, Terrorists

  11. Bond films - genre • Affirmation of traditional masculinity • A “Bond girl” who needs to be rescued. • Bond is technologically adept and is able to master new gadgets better than “Q” the head technician. • At the critical moment, he uses his own resourcefulness, and not gadgets.

  12. Bond films - Characters Connery Moore Lazenby

  13. Bond films - Characters Dalton Brosnan Craig

  14. Bond films - Characters Connery – seen as a common man. Classless. Moore – some saw him play Bond as a parody. He was not serious. Dalton – post-feminist person. He cares and almost crys. Brosnan – suave super-Brit. Sleekly professional.

  15. Bond films - Plot The plot has a fairytale pattern (not much)

  16. Bond films - Plot One or more of these movie scenes

  17. Bond films - Plot • Opening Scene: Bond in a spectacular escapade. • Encounter with Moneypenny: A short scene where Bond flirts with his admirer, the secretary of M. • Encounter with Q: Bond is given a demonstration of the gadgets he will be using. • Conversation with Villain: The Villain reveals his wicked plans to Bond.

  18. Bond films - Style A focus on speed, action & movement A fast editing pace Large, airy, modern sets. Guns and near-naked women The Bond music is used to heighten tension Each movie has its own song produced by a popular singer

  19. Bond films - Perspectives

  20. Bond films - Perspectives • British power ebbed away after WW2 • Bond movies are a national fantasy that their nation is a world power • Self-sufficiency & individualism vs. the Welfare state • The threat of non-British immigrants and racial mixing

  21. Bond films - Perspectives • Bond epitomizes common values: a consumer (travel, hotels, women, sport (skiing, golf), gambling) • Carver = Bill Gates, media baron • Perhaps half of the world has seen a Bond film. The reason: not much dialog

  22. Bond films - Perspectives • The films remind people of the British, and there is nostalgia • A place where desires are vicariously fulfilled (social, material, physical)

  23. Bond Films Quesitons: • Explain the following joke: After Bond electrocutes one of his assailants, he says “Shocking”. • One regular character is a CIA agent. What is the cultural significance of this figure? • Why are Bond films so popular? • Do you think Bond films lack any ethics?

  24. How to review a movie • Characters (4 or 7 types, motivation, conflict, growth) • Plot (a basic story type?, 3 acts, subplots, restricted narration?, momentum) • Style (setting, shots, sound, lights, symbols)

  25. Assignments • Please do not email in the assignment • Assignments that are copied = 0 • Assignments handed in late = 50% off or more.

  26. Next week’s assignment Write a paragraph or two about this week’s movie. You may talk about the plot, setting, characters, narrative, genre, style, and what you learned from the movie. Consider:

  27. Next Week’s movie Shown on Sat. night?

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