Film Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Zombie, Monster Clown
17 Aug 2016
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Week 26: zombieland in the lecture for inception, i gave you a list of films on the course that are self-reflexive, and to this list, we can add zombieland. Columbus"s direct offscreen narration is a self-reflexive gesture, as are his numbered rules that pop up on the screen during action sequences (still 1) The scenes in bill murray"s mansion are also self-reflexive. Not only does murray play himself, but the characters also mention or recite lines from some of murray"s films, including caddyshack, ghostbusters, and what about bob? (still 4) Tallahassee, wichita, and murray even act out a scene from ghostbusters (still 5) And columbus and little rock are watching ghostbusters in murray"s screening room, when murray comes in pretending to be a zombie and gets shot by columbus (still 6: also self-reflexive is murray"s story about having a. Hollywood make-up artist teach him how to apply make-up to look like a zombie.
