City of God’s “Lil Dice/Lil Ze” sequence begins at 00:38:48, and ends at 00:43:48 (exactly 5 minutes), detailing the point from Lil Ze correcting Blacky on his new name, through the narration of his story growing up, to his being newly Christened as Ze in the alleyway.

Film elements I want to focus on in my writing include Editing (the montage elements are very clever, there’s a lot to talk about there), Sound (the use of music especially corresponds to the sequence’s momentum), Influences (Quentin Tarantino is important, as well as one can use this space to blend the referencing of cultural context, and the autobiography the movie is adapting – as well as the Lund documentary News from a Private War, which features one of CoG’s directors and covers the same topics of crime in Brazilian favelas) and Critical Reception (incidents with drug arrests in and around movie showings at the time harshly painted how the movie was seen in Brazil at the time, links again into context)

Links to remember:
https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/14797/who-is-this-man-changing-the-name-of-little-dice-to-lill-z (not a source but contains one)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26996489 (worth looking at)
Wikipedia stuff about Candomble (look into Wiki’s citations)
and Wikipedia stuff about Olurun
of course also Wiki stuff on City of God itself (and more importantly the sites it cites, provided they remain accessible)
https://books.google.je/books?id=bwYlDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&dq=lil+ze+necklace&source=bl&ots=KPPL8H-lE0&sig=ACfU3U0wNhn7Um-NTbNSdNFqkQVu28vzjg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8lKOtvqHzAhWTSsAKHSpmA5UQ6AF6BAgfEAM#v=twopage&q&f=false
Source-News From a Personal War (on DVD featurettes, Lund, 1997??)
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jan-24-et-munoz24-story.html
Score by Antonio Pinto – “Meu Nome e Ze” – free on Soundcloud (and on Spotify but on there it won’t play in UK) – https://soundcloud.com/antonio-pinto/14-meu-nome-ze?in=antonio-pinto/sets/city-of-god
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23333368
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-latin-america-12801078
City of God 10 years on, Source documentary
https://www.worldcat.org/title/new-brazilian-cinema/oclc/55808559
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/jan/03/artsfeatures2
https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/city-god-review/
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/city-of-god-2003
https://www.gamesradar.com/the-total-film-interview-robert-altman/
https://www.top10films.co.uk/1712-review-city-of-god/
https://introductiontocinema.wordpress.com/2016/05/03/pulp-fictioncity-of-god/
https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/city-of-gods-an-interview-with-fernando-meirelles/
https://nextbillion.net/city-of-gods/
http://archive.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2008/02/29/city_of_men_is_a_safer_return_to_rio/

Bong Joon Ho’s 2019 film Parasite and Robert Eggers’ 2019 The Lighthouse are both distinctive horror films. They are incredibly psychological, from the bait-and-switch comedy veneer of Parasite, to the claustrophobic, swelling chaos of The Lighthouse. These films have been chosen as they were made in contrasting contexts, Parasite being South Korean and The Lighthouse being American, so the differences in genre tropes can be clearly seen. Joon Ho’s film follows a trio of families attempting to get by around an opulent suburban mansion, eventually resulting in a violent storm of intrigue which breaks all three families. The Lighthouse also features a slow-burn story of mystery and death, but a different narrative, as instead a pair of lighthouse keepers become stranded. Tensions between the two rise as they covet the light at the point of the tower, and the story slowly comes to a head as one kills the other. 

“How do directors depict class struggle in horror films such as The Lighthouse (dir. Robert Eggers, 2019), and Parasite (dir. Bong Joon Ho, 2019)?”

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TvMrGgNs9lS_gM7oe7MV4_L-jEJ8-aWlZcMZ3VR4ols/edit?usp=sharing

‘Der Golem’ is a German UFA film from the expressionist period, between the two major world wars, and as well as representing a historical setting with racial turmoil, it also reflects the current state of a country in which Anti-Semitic sentiment was reaching a ground swell in a financially crippled Germany. As such, the Golem, culturally at least, represents a form of protection for the Jewish people in what would prove to be one of the hardest centuries in history for them.

On the other hand, there is ‘Malcolm X’, named for and based on the revolutionary figure in the African-American and Muslim-American communities, which rather than harkening to a fantasy of a time separated by hundreds of years, tells the story of a man who only died around thirty years before the film’s release. This shows how current and persistent the societal issues which bred the film’s creation had remained since Malcolm’s time, and on a larger scale, since the Transatlantic Slave trade, and the Colonial era.

This poster is from ‘Pihrana 3D’, or, as it was billed in many places, ‘Pihrana 3DD’. The name, other than challenging my spelling of the word Pihrana, is a cheap pun, befitting of that the entire marketing campaign of the movie was centred on ogling at the female casts’ breasts – the most blatant possible depiction of the male gaze short of complete pornography.

And this film, ‘The Seven Year Itch’, starring the infamous Marilyn Monroe, is notable not only for proudly displaying its exploitation of the female body for money, but for having that very same moment of sexual voyeurism and degradation become one of the most iconic moments of film history. Just from seeing this image, you all immediately know what film this is, because the imagery of Marilyn’s skirt being blown up by the draft is such a persistent bit of imagery, which has been absorbed into the larger modern/postmodern pop culture canon – proving just what a proclivity Hollywood has toward this treatment of women.

https://jerseyedu-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/l_mavity11_hautlieu_sch_je/ESz2Cy8ung9LtsQ42wNoqXUBZ9mU05bivG8SIRo04dy5mA?e=hSDoag

Presentation on link below;

https://jerseyedu-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/l_mavity11_hautlieu_sch_je/EZ4Ayn9Y7wtDsNppS4UbfGYBC8bX-DbmDMhlvH7qweiSLA?e=mDjGaj