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Dystopian films

1. Experimental – Metropolis (1927) Fritz Lang – basic plot, messed up world, brings the basic features from a dystopian film and creates the emotional broken world around a protagonist who tries to save the day.

1. Classic – Blade Runner (1982) Ridley Scott – ruined world, people want to change it, death, good people die, reality in destroyed world. Things get better in the end. Blade Runner brings certain aspects of dystopian films in a way that connects the characters to the audience and creates distinct features for dystopian films.

1. Parody – The Hungover Games (2014) Josh Stolberg – parody of the Hunger games. Includes people fighting for their lives. like the hunger games but silly and they’re hungover. Done to make money on the back off the hunger games.

1. Deconstruction – Under the skin (2013) John Glazer – Alienation, metaphor for people that don’t fit in. Weird sounds,costumes and stuck as someone she doesn’t want to be. This takes Dystopian films to a new level and it has a dystopian base layer but in a deep and meaningful way.

Director of ‘Love Actually’ and ‘About Time’.

Screen played films such as ‘Nottinghill’ and ‘War horse’

Ricard Curtis is a Romantic comedy Auteur who creates sentimental films with special moments that connect the characters to the audience. Through the film, characters get closer together whilst the films aren’t always straight forward and things don’t always end in happy endings which make the films more emotive because we learn to love the characters through their relationships with others.

Richard Curtis is different to other film makers because he uses the dialogue from the characters to create humour and to also show us the relationships with the characters. EG. in ‘About time’, Richard Curtis shows flashbacks and memories of Tim and his dad and through the emotional dialogue, he shows the strong bond between the 2 characters which is carried on through the film and it becomes more sentimental and powerful when his dad dies and Tim goes to the past to have more moments with him. He focuses more on the choice of actors and screenplay rather than cinematography, editing and sound. He does this because he wants the characters to show a strong relationship with each other so it makes it more emotional when characters die or something bad happens.

Richard curtis writes about what he knows and uses his experiences to make his films relatable and meaningful. His films are based in london because he lived there for a number of years so he’s familiar with what its like. He also uses past expeirences that has happened to himself such as the death of his dad to write the dialoguwe in ‘abvout time’ and to make it more meaningful and relatable to the audience because the character ‘Tim’ has a chance to say things that many people wish they said before their parents die.

I think the best thing that Richard Curtis does that makes him an auteur is the use of dialogue to show the relationships and connections between the character and then he adds plot twists to make the audience feel emotional and to add sympathy for the characters whilst always going back to key sentimental parts to emphasise the relationship of the characters that are dead or that had something bad happen to them with the protagonists.

This is a good example of constructivism because it represents the workers in 1922. It also uses predominantly red and white to show both the parties.

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in order to survive its diversified into tv production. Traded upon its heritage. Filming here is 20% cheaper than Hollywood and its usually booked out all year long.

Classic German expressionist Film

Name at least 3 other films identified by critics as classic German Expressionist films

Explain how the political, social and economic context of the Weimar Republic affected the production and content of classic German Expressionist Cinema

it was just after WW1 so Germany was really poor because of the treaty of verci. They had to give money back to the allied countries because of the damage done during the war and therefore they didnt have money for the big film companies. People were living in really bad conditions because they were basically getting starved.

Soldiers who fought had PTSD and the impact of post war on German society brought Film noir and Gothic themes. Expressionist film-makers made films with dark story lines and themes, including horror and crime.

It produced unrealistic sets with low key lighting, abstract art and over exaggerated acting techniques which is the expressionistic style that we know today. This is because of the shortage of funding for film so atmospheric low budget films were made on small sets.

The little working class girl is painted green with thick heavy brush strokes and sat on a chair sculpured as a naked woman with influence from African art. The non realistic green contrasts with the chair to make sexual implications.

The backround colours are used to make it seem absract and show the contrast between the young model and her emotions and the naked chair. It makes it seem unrealistic and contrasts the 2 types of people whilst the blue and pink on the green girls face makes her seem comfortable which further impplies sexual tentions onto the paining.

It done to show emotions and the range of colours is used to show feelings in an abstract way to show comfortableness whilst also using the naked woman to bring sexual implications