Blood Simple [1984]
Shots that home seen used on
Other fims-- Shallow Grave, re used it.
Eg, Sergio Leone- Pioneered many shots/styles for western. Once Upon a Time in the West...intertextualised over 30 westerns.
AUTEURS-
definition: An author/creator with personalised vision/style whose style is highly recognisable.
Leone
Tarantino
Coen Bro's (these 3 all surrounding postmodern texts...not representing the real world, representing the film world)
Hitchcock
Speilburg
Winterbottom
... Winterbottom similarly being a postmodern Auteur, directing films such as
In This World [2002]
Green Grass
The Bourne Trilogy
... Coen Brothers- Burn After Reading with George Clooney and Brad Pitt; A list actors where the postmodernism becomes prominent because the A list actors bring their previous roles to the role they play.
Similarly, in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction,this same trait is brought through in the dance sequence when John Travolta and Uma Therman dance in the 50's Diner... he is parodying himself and relating himself to previous roles where he has danced for example, Grease and Saturday Night Fever [1979]. This creates quite a hyper real situation, where the audience uses their own intertextual knowledge to relate to the dance sequence. Without that previous intertextual knowledge, it would not be perhaps as humorous for the audience.
In fact, Tarinto's production company, so named 'A Band Apart' is intertextual in itself and is related to Jean Luc Goddard's iconic French Film, 'Bande a part' [1960's] where there is a dance sequence similar to the dance sequence portrayed by Travolta in Pulp Fiction.
The importance of a media saturated world- becomes difficult to distinguish between reality and the media reality.
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