Episode 14 – New American Independents & The Digital Revolution
Notes
The Following Material is Copied from Wikipedia.org
The 1990s: The First Days of Digital – Reality Losing Its Realness in America and Australia.
- Gladiator (2000) dir. Ridley Scott
- has a large digital shot of a city from a distance
- completely drawn on a computer
- Intolerance (1916) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. D. W. Griffith
- puts a camera on a crane to make a similar shot
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) dir. James Cameron
- has a liquid metal person turn into an actor
- used computer generated imagery to do this
- Anchors Aweigh (1945) dir. George Sidney
- uses animation and live action at the same time
- Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Winsor McCay
- first animated film
- Jurassic Park (1993) (introduced in Episode 11) dir. Steven Spielberg
- has hyper realistic dinosaurs
- Titanic (1997) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. James Cameron
- uses digital effects to create the titanic
- shows humanity what they wanted to see
- Toy Story (1995) dir. John Lasseter
- mainstream feature film made entirely with computer
- expensive
- The Blair Witch Project (1999) dir. Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez
- found footage film
- very low budget
- looks like cam recorder footage
- House of Flying Daggers (2004) (introduced in Episode 12) dir. Zhang Yimou
- about a blind dancer
- has a computer generated bean
- dress picks up cgi sword and plate
- Goodfellas (1990) dir. Martin Scorsese
- about ganster who looks into the camera
- shoots down the lense
- The Great Train Robbery (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter
- also shoots down the lense
- The Killers (1946) dir. Robert Siodmak
- dark lighting
- little dialogue
- Pulp Fiction (1994) dir. Quentin Tarantino
- lots of dialogue
- with bright lighting
- means more real and less real than life
- Reservoir Dogs (1992) dir. Quentin Tarantino
- long lens shots
- has a three way standoff
- City on Fire (1987) dir. Ringo Lam
- inspires shot is reservoir dogs
- Bande à Part (1964) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- title sequence has fast cuts of the characters
- Natural Born Killers (1994) dir. Oliver Stone
- had handheld video shots
- Miller’s Crossing (1990) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
- focus follows a had that is blowing in the wind
- The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
- focused on the little man caught up in events that he doesn’t understand
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
- main character plays a trespasser
- golden imigery
- The Big Lebowski (1998) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
- a musical
- had surreal design
- My Own Private Idaho (1991) dir. Gus Van Sant
- about a young huslter
- show a barn crashing into a landscape to show sexuality
- The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick
- blood comes out of elevator, uses shots multiple times
- Elephant (2003) dir. Gus Van Sant
- response to school shootings
- has a steady cam with little dialogue
- has forward walking in real time
- inspires video game tracking
- Elephant (1989) dir. Alan Clarke
- uses steady cam to show gunmen
- Gerry (2002) dir. Gus Van Sant
- has tracking as people are walking
- Sátántangó (1994) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. Béla Tarr
- Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) dir. Chantal Akerman
- full of fixed shots
- Last Days (2005) dir. Gus Van Sant
- also uses many fixed shots
- Psycho (1960) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Psycho (1998) dir. Gus Van Sant
- remake of original psycho
- characters pupil dilates in this film
- shows more nudity
- Cremaster 3 (2002) dir. Matthew Barney
- barney does rock climbing in this film
- represents sexual undertones
- Safety Last! (1923) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
- silent comedy where a man climbs a building
- RoboCop (1987) dir. Paul Verhoeven
- very satiric movie
- fast editing
- used violence and then joke to make tension come back in a laugh
- Starship Troopers (1997) dir. Paul Verhoeven
- satirical film about right wing novel
- explosive soundtrack
- parallels people joining the Nazi party
- ties up enemy and scares it
- An Angel at My Table (1990) dir. Jane Campion
- about a shy young woman who has a panic attack in the middle of class
- The Piano (1993) dir. Jane Campion
- uses subjective images and sounds
- has a woman speaking to audience through her mind
- Romeo + Juliet (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann
- makes hyperactive version of Romeo and Juliet
- uses many long lens shots
- like original play but in modern times
- Moulin Rouge! (2001) dir. Baz Luhrmann
- camera swoops through computer generated streets
- musical
- has a rock song in a movie about France
- romantic cinema