CAS CI 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cinemascope
15 Feb 2017
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Super-production, financed by hollywood and conceptualized for american market: american domestic was the biggest market for western films besides india, easy for americans to like this film since he is the stereotypic hero. More people identify with this type of character and his charisma not much of a moral dilemma. Made audience view movies as an event; tickets in advance, advertising, roadshow exhibition: historical epics were a big theme (heroes, great man narrative), biopics, historical women pictures (got dropped) Lawrence is a romantic, chivalrous figure in history. Focused on key events of his 2 years in the desert (difficult to condense story into. Historical epic, demonstrates what it is like for western mainstream cinema to make a movie for many minorities (global cinema history) Lawrence is the ideal white man with blonde hair and blue eyes and he goes native.
