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La HaineLa HaineRéalisateur
Mathieu Kassovitz
Lesson Objectives:In this lesson, you will learn to
analyse the opening scene of the film and discuss its effect on the
audience.
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Watch the opening scene of La HaineLa Haine and take notes on the
following:Ou? Quand? Qui? Son?
Couleurs? Ambiance? Dialogue? Action/ activité?
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Virtuoso noir: the aesthetics of La HaineLa Haine
• The film begins with a grainy image of a young man, seen from the back, facing a line of police and shouting at them.
• “ vous n’êtes que des assassins. Vous tirez. C’est facile.
Nous, on n’a pas d’armes, on a que des cailloux ” • “You are nothing but assassins. It is easy for you, you have weapons. We only have stones”
• His look and accent immediately establish him as from the banlieu. There is no music.
• There follows a black screen with the beginning of the credits and then a man’s voice (Hubert) telling a story about a man falling from a 50 floor building, over a terrestrial globe that bursts into flames as a home-made bomb (in a bottle) is thrown at it.
• In those few seconds, several themes are planted.
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Themes
• Uneven confrontation between young people and the police.
• Violence• The banlieu• Notion that the situation is global• It will lead to an explosion
• In the first few seconds: the “message” of the film.
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Then...
• Immediately afterwards, a montage of news reel images begins, over which the credits are imposed.
• Soundtrack: Bob Marley “Burnin’ and lootin’”, identifiable and political.
• “ How many rivers do we have to cross, Before we can talk to the Boss.”
• Refers to the police as “uniforms of brutality”
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Duration.
• 5 minutes and 9 seconds. • Kassovitz watched hours of newsreel
footage over the 10 years leading up to La Haine.
• On first viewing, appears as a blur of images of police and young demonstrators moving rapidly.
• Average shot length = 4 seconds (some images slowed down.
• Looking more closely, we can divide the montage into 3 sections.
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First Section
• Shots of CRS police and young people.• CRS = Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité (CRS)
are the riot control forces and general reserve of the French National Police.
• Ranks of police uniforms against softer shapes of students.
• Students begin with quiet marching and dancing but end with looting.
• In synchronisation with the words on the soundtrack.
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Second section
• Individual violence evoking 2 victims of police violence and the demonstrations that follow their deaths.
• See the body of “Malik Oussekine” which medics are trying to revive.
• A poster says “n’oubliez pas, la police tue”• CRS = SS• Graffiti asking for justice to be done for
Makome M’Bowole. “Que justice soit faite pour Mako”
• 2 deaths, seven years apart appear merged.
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Third Section• Sections 1 and 2 shot during the day, 3rd
section shows banlieu at night.• Burning Centre Commercial.• Violence is more extreme suggesting
retaliation for police violence in the first 2 sections.
• 1/3 way through, Bob Marley song decreases, replaced by shouting, breaking glass, thuds.
• Towards the end, voice over of a television presenter talking to camera, finally a picture of Abdel reportedly in a coma in hospital.
• The montage is identified as television when it is switched off and fades to a white spot before the film proper begins.
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Conclusion
• Documentary style, preparing us for the fiction to come.
• Structure and progression, contains the shape of the film to come.
• Greater violence, day to night, contrast between city and banlieu.
• Blurs the boundary between reality and fiction in image and sound.
• Move from montage to fiction contrasts grainy, dirty blurred figures of riot at night, with sharp elegant black and white day time images.
• The switch from television to film.