Dylan Hogan A-level Film Studies

Repetitive tropes Feet Violence Dialogue Use of actors (Samuel L Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt) Masculinity and gender Bathrooms Restaurant scenes Mexican standoffs Postmodernism  Replacement of realism with artifice (mise-en-scene, character, story) Postmodern addition Advertising is a key element of postmodernist society because advertising is by definition "artificial" Tarantino further adds to the postmodernist identify of the film in four places where advertising speech is used in everyday conversation: Big Kahuna burger $5 Milkshake  Gourmet coffee  Oak furniture  Each time, the advertising speak ends with swearing- Tarantino's criticism of advertising? Style Worm's eye two shot out of a car trunk Realism in dialogue (use of racist and sexually charged language) Use of music Long takes Corpse or injured POV shot Pulp Fiction Outline the key features in Pulp Fiction which demonstrat...

What makes Tarantino an experimental filmmaker? Experimental filmmakers are in opposition to the mainstream filmmakers. What is a mainstream film? High production value- professional and real as possible Reliance upon stars Conventions of a genre  The script rather than the film language tells a story (through narrative devices- it's a means of telling a STORY above all else) Economic imperative In what ways is Tarantino and experimental filmmaker? In Tarantino's films he using many elements to make him unique and make his films tackle the stereotype of mainstream film. Tarantino plays with the narrative structure in the way that he does not tell the story in chronological order and also in the film Pulp Fiction where there is multiple story's being told all in one film, this makes the focus come away from the narrative as the story lacks complexity, but the narrative is very interesting and intriguing. In his film Pulp Fiction there is a telling of several th...