FILM 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Inglourious Basterds, Spaghetti Western, Metacinema
3 Apr 2016
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Wants to draw our atenion that any image is an image, not the thing itself. Surrealists were invested & inluenced by psychoanalysts i. e. freud: idea of symbolism. Want us to be suspicious about the images. Warning that images can lead us on, lie to us, manipulate us: we need to be on guard. Be on guard with images: do not take them for granted, ask: Intertextuality: ripe with references, taranino quotes between 50-100 ilms. Genre(s: taranino mixes genres, this was intended to be a spaghei western. A lot of violence that seems completely out of the blue, unmoivated, gruesome. First scene exempliies this: this got lost spaghei western iconography is lost, also a war ilm. Also brings in other types of more contemporary war pracices. Realism: done in a realisic style, takes us to places we haven"t seen before, ask: For inglourious basterds: producion ime: 2009, plot era: wwii, viewing ime: 2016.
