Chungking Express

Task 1 - Research the 5 terms listed on the brief.

 
Auteur Theory


This theory applies to certain directors and can also apply to any art form including editing or just art work its self such as paintings or drawings, with a further explination its used in media terms to those who use certain shots again and again in each different film they produce, it could also get refrenced at editors aswell because they might apply a grain effect to a certain scene and then use it exactly the same in another project with the exact same camera angle and even genre! I suppose you could even identify a auteur by genre aswell, one example of this would have to be Tim Burton, he has directed Alice in Wonderland the newest version of course also he has directed the film Corpse Bride. Both of these films are quite dark and just so very strange. 


French New Wave


French New Wave had its big time run juring 1958-1964, it still continued to progress after these years. Juring these years of it been essencially founded, it involved surrealism into the directors work and basically made a new meaning for cinema viewing which for some films have a niche audience to them. French New Wave basically included a very low budget to shoot there films with, they often shot on location and do what not many films do today which is get the actors to improvise and they even improvised plots to!


Film Noir

Film Noir began in the 1930's when TV was first introduced to our living rooms, Film Noir means films are shot in black and white with a negative, dark and bleak effect to it, the term is french for 'black film'. This type of genre had a big hit with the gangster or crime related films in the 1930's. 

As you can see by the example i have chose, you can see how bleak and overall a shadow look to the footage.





Leitmotif

Leitmotif is where in a film or any media related medium a person, object or even idea is dominantly been repeated and occurs again and again in the film.




Intertextuality






Task 2 - Remake as a Hollywood remake?


It would be possible to remake this as a Hollywood film, obviously because it would be mainstream parts of it would have to drastically change for the audience to keep interest, the type of audience what would watch a remake of this would be the passive audience because the actors that I have chosen they have been in films that are simple to follow and you can see the equilibrium like a flashing light.
I think that to acheive the placement of the area like we see in Chungking Express it would have to be remade in America in the city called Balitimore because I was looking at some information on the city and its in the top 25 most dangerous cities according to the website business insider, Baltimore would be the city where i think Hollywood would remake the movie because where the film is set, its got a stingy dangerous feeling to it.

For replacing the characters roles I would replace the quirky eating pineapple cop with Nicholas Cage because I think he has been in his share of films and had to play different characters each time but mostly play the same one in certain films.
For the blonde hair women Brigitte Lin I would want to replace her with Milla Jovovich, this is because in Chungking Express she acts as action type female character and Milla has been in nothing but action type films such as The Fifth Element and the obvious most famous films Resident Evil.
Tony Leung known at Cop 663 I think I would have Matt Damon to play at his role, the reason why was because I was trying to think of a mysterious character but seemed like a serious character.



Task 3 - Make a List of the Consumer Goods.

- Coca Cola
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