Episode 11 – The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
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1970s and Onwards: Innovation in Popular Culture – Around the World.
- The Kingdom and the Beauty (1959) dir. Li Han-hsiang
- a brightly colored musical
- A Touch of Zen (1971) dir. King Hu
- wide screen
- faster and more aggressive
- Enter the Dragon (1973) dir. Robert Clouse
- had good story
- has more anger
- camera work was slow but action was fast
- A Better Tomorrow (1986) dir. John Woo
- a story about loyalty and betrayal
- filmed shootouts with tracking
- about immoral heroic gangsters
- Iron Monkey (1993) dir. Yuen Woo-ping
- editing is fast but fight was also quickly choreographed
- characters fought in the air
- The Matrix (1999) dir. Lilly Wachowski & Lana Wachowski
- was influenced by asian action movie
- took four months to train the actors how to do kung fu
- Once Upon a Time in China (1991) dir. Tsui Hark
- about a kung fu master who meets a western woman
- stages a meeting as if it was a fight
- New Dragon Gate Inn (1992) dir. Raymond Lee
- two people fight over a dress seems like a hurricane
- Mughal-e-Azam (1960) dir. K. Asif
- bright and full of colors
- Devi (1960) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Satyajit Ray
- uses tiny head movments and closeup
- Mausam (1975) dir. Gulzar
- uses bright colors and lots of movement
- has a moment where two characters are having a happy moment and then the older version of one of them walks up and is looking back at his past happy self
- shows the joy of love and its pain
- Zanjeer (1973) dir. Prakash Mehra
- had lots of zooms and closeups
- music crashes like waves
- Sholay (1975) dir. Ramesh Sippy
- the greatest bollywood movies of its time
- kind of like an old western
- captured the spirit of its time
- uses freeze frames and slow motion
- has a carefree musicical scene after a characters parents have been murdered
- has many shifts in tone life this
- The Message: The Story of Islam (1976) (a.k.a. Mohammad, Messenger of God) dir. Moustapha Akkad
- a biblical epic
- uses wide screen shots where the actors talk to the camera
- the actors talk to the camera as if they are the messiah
- they dont picture the messiah the whole time
- cameraman is the messiah
- The Making of an Epic: Mohammad, Messenger of God (1976) dir. Geoffrey Helman & Christopher Penfold
- The Sparrow (1972) dir. Youssef Chahine
- an account of a terrible moment in Arab history
- shows people who are really sad as they are watching a broadcast
- The Exorcist (1973) dir. William Friedkin
- slaps horror cinema in the face with realism
- has realistic handheld shots
- audiences were very scared of the film
- was rough and handheld
- A Guy Named Joe (1943) dir. Victor Fleming
- a ghost says goodbye to the woman he loves
- Jaws (1975) dir. Steven Spielberg
- an innovative film
- shots started where people walked by the camera
- The Making of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1995) dir. Laurent Bouzereau
- Vertigo (1958) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) dir. Steven Spielberg
- spielburg has a wonder an awe scene where is shows people looking then pans to cool stuff
- Jurassic Park (1993) dir. Steven Spielberg
- does same stuff as last film
- Star Wars (1977) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. George Lucas
- uses models of spaceships on wide angle lenses to look big
- has an absrud shot
- The Hidden Fortress (1958) dir. Akira Kurosawa
- c3po and r2 where based off of two characters of this
- Triumph of the Will (1935) (a.k.a. Triumph des Willens) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Leni Riefenstahl
- star wars took inspiration from this