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Chapter 2 The 24/7 World
Why do we study movies?
Watching a movie is never a waste of time, as long as you know how to watch
Language practice in the areas of: Listening, speaking, grammar,
vocabulary, writing and cultural understanding
Film appreciation Film techniques
Quiz: Film Lines Can you work out which films these lines came from?
1. One ring to rule them all.2. May the force be with you.3. Get out of the water! Get out of the water!4. Lads do football or boxing or wrestling ...
not ballet.5. My momma always said life was like a box
of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get.
6. You want to explain the math of this to me? I mean, where's the sense in risking the lives of eight of us to save one guy?
Quiz: Film LinesCan you work out which films these lines came from?
1. I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.
2. Marry me and I'll never look at another horse.
3. Gentlemen! You can't fight here - this is a War Room!
4. "You don't understand, Osgood. I'm a man." "Well, nobody's perfect“
5. "Surely you can't be serious." "I am serious. And don't call me Shirley“
6. Madness doesn't run in my family. It gallops.
Jaws (1975)
This is a fragment of stern wood from the shark fishing vessel ORCA as seen in JAWS.
Film effects - revolution
Pirates of the Carribean
The tentacled visage of Davy Jones, played by Bill Nighy, wasn't just another computer-generated face. Nighy wore a motion-capture suit during filming of on-deck scenes, and the Industrial Light & Magic crew led by John Knoll integrated motion-capture into the production process.
The crewmembers of The Flying Dutchman were created the same way.
Life of Pi
"Neither Ang nor his winning cinematographer, Claudio Miranda felt they needed to thank or even mention the VFX artists at the Oscars who made the sky, the ocean, the ship, the island, the meerkats and … the tiger. Ang thanked the crew, the actors, his agent, his lawyer and the entire country of Taiwan right down to the team that built the wave-pool on the soundstage where Pi was shot. But failed to mention 100s of artists who made not only the main character of the tiger, but replaced that pool, making it look like a real ocean for 80% of his movie."
Oscar-winning director Ang Lee has been attacked by members of the VFX (visual effects) industry for his failure to recognise their contribution to the success of his film Life of Pi.
Boardwalk Empire TV-series See What Boardwalk Empire
Looks Like With (and Without) Special Effects
http://www.vulture.com/2012/01/boardwalk-empire-special-effects.html
The Way Hollywood [Tales] It
Beyond the Blockbuster
1960-1972 Hollywood blockbuster, mega-budget films lost billions of dollars
1980—By 1980, large Hollywood studios were earning incredible, almost unimaginable profit...
Hollywood – a global brand
Hollywood’s advantages Huge American market English language
Hollywood’s strength’s Big budgets Popular, risk-averse
topics Stars Glamour Heroes/Heroines Movies types Screen writers and
Simple Scripts
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• Number of films with calculated releases
• “Keeping Up” and being “with it” media-driven spectacle
• Advertising
Heroic Tales
The Odyssey The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe The Matrix Star Wars Finding Nemo Spider Man Toy Story II, Toy Story III UP! Harry Potter
The 3-Act Structure
Act One: Introduces the problems faced by the hero, ending with the crisis and the promise of major conflict...30 pages
Act Two: Consists of an extended struggle between the protagonist and his or her problem, and it ends at a point of even more sever testing for the hero...60 pages
Act Three: Shows the protagonist solving the problem...30 pages
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
compared to
Star Wars A New Hope
A synopsis is a brief summary of the major points
• “A film’s main characters [...] should pursue important goals and face forbidding obstacles.
•Conflict should be constant, across the whole film and within each scene.
The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies
• Actions should be bound into a tight chain of cause and effect.
• Major events should be foreshadowed (‘planted’), but not so obviously that the viewer can predict them.
•TENSION should rise in the course of the film UNTIL A CLIMAX RESOLVES ALL THE ISSUES.”
What films are these taken from?
Picture nr. 1
Picture Nr. 2
The Social Network:
The Social Network is a 2010 American drama film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. Adapted from Ben Mezrich's 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires,
Director – controls everything on the set, is responsible for the artistic aspects of the film
Bollywood
Indian film industry Largest in world
Inexpensive melodramas and musicals Bright colors, beautiful stars
Decidedly escapist Star crossed lovers, corrupt
politicians, etc. Only ½ made ever
screened 10% profitable
Gaining international reputation Slumdog Millionaire (British)
Ylvis in Nigeria
Nollywood
Nigerian film industry Second largest in world
Digital video technology Very inexpensive
Began in 1990s Relevant stories to tell
300 producers today Latest technology used
Local roots and problems But 50% in English
Look out Hollywood. Here we come!
News of the world
Pioneers BBC World Service Voice of America
24/7 commercial reporting CNN - 1984 BBC -1990
Worldwide channels ABC News Sky News etc.
Whose news?
Al Jazeera Established 1996
Al Jazeera English Alternative to Anglo-American
news 2006 130 million households by
2009 But not in America
Arab spring 2011 Breakthrough in USA
Mixing it up
International English news channels today India, Iran, Japan,
Russia, China International foreign
language news channels CNN Español, CNN
TÜRK, BBC Persian, BBC Arabic
Online news websites Facebook, YouTube,
Twitter, Yahoo, Google
Noman recommends Bollywood (Indian) films for these reasons;
East meets West Films are similar to the musicals produced in the
1930’s in Hollywood Colorful communication dance, song and different
religions at the same time. For example Hinduism is shown when singers sit in front of their gods and goddesses whilst religious practices are going on.
Shows different language groups that is Indian films are shot in a large numbers of languages Tamilsk (Tollywood), Bengali (Collywood) in Calcutta.
Learn about other world famous film stars like Sharo Kahn; “(We) Don’t need the world – we are the world)
These are some of the films he recommended:
Bride and prejudice – The Indian version - comedy – of Jane Eyre’s Pride and Prejudicehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh1pkPU6QBc
These are some of the films he recommended:
Outsourced – Hollywood film made in India. About outsourcing of call centers.We have purchased a copy for Fvgs. A comedy. There is a worksheet in this document.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LImhTTFu4b8
These are some of the films he recommended:
My name is Khan – post 9/11, what happened with Muslims in USA? How were they treated by the rest of the America public after 9/11. A very big success in India and the rest of the world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvrMASi22x4
These are some of the films he recommended:
Dil Bole Hadipp! (Heart Says Hurray!) – comedy about a young Indian woman who pretends to be a man to join an all-male cricket team. It also has some famous Indian actors. Dancing. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-qcCmxcGsk