CIN212H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Boxing Ring, Machismo, Bruce Willis
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Lecture 2 (september 20, 2016): rambo: first blood part ii. Action sequence: last kiss goodnight excerpt. Rapid movement of objects toward the camera. Too much that can damage clear narrative progression: rapid action is there for maximum impact. Attraction: any aggressive moment that subjects the audience to emotional or psychological influence calculated to produce emotional shocks. Todays impact aesthetics seek violence and excitation. Action sequence has a suspension of normal continuity editing. Action films rely on continuity for spatial organization and dialogue etc: only spectacle portion has non-continuity editing. Normal continuity: editing conventions that sustained classical narrative films, especially in. Hollywood: seeks to follow the logic of plot and narration as smoothly as possible, seeks to maintain continuous space and time relations between all shots, basis of the economic means of editing. Shots are not too long: not excessive, seamless and invisible. Rambo: made in 1980s, helped define action cinema, first rambo film in 1982.