Story of Film Episode 11 – The Arrival of Multiplexes and Asian Mainstream
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Notes
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1970s and Onwards: Innovation in Popular Culture – Around the World.
- The Kingdom and the Beauty (1959) dir. Li Han-hsiang
- perfect trees and clothes
- A Touch of Zen (1971) dir. King Hu
- wider screen
- more aggressive
- Enter the Dragon (1973) dir. Robert Clouse
- more attack and rage
- A Better Tomorrow (1986) dir. John Woo
- Iron Monkey (1993) dir. Yuen Woo-ping
- The Matrix (1999) dir. Lilly Wachowski & Lana Wachowski
- based off of Bruce lee’s fighting style
- Once Upon a Time in China (1991) dir. Tsui Hark
- New Dragon Gate Inn (1992) dir. Raymond Lee
- Mughal-e-Azam (1960) dir. K. Asif
- Devi (1960) (introduced in Episode 6) dir. Satyajit Ray
- Mausam (1975) dir. Gulzar
- influenced a generation of indian women
- Zanjeer (1973) dir. Prakash Mehra
- extreme closeups for suspense
- Sholay (1975) dir. Ramesh Sippy
- greatest Bollywood films of its time
- most influencial
- The Message: The Story of Islam (1976) (a.k.a. Mohammad, Messenger of God) dir. Moustapha Akkad
- The Making of an Epic: Mohammad, Messenger of God (1976) dir. Geoffrey Helman & Christopher Penfold
- The Sparrow (1972) dir. Youssef Chahine
- The Exorcist (1973) dir. William Friedkin
- strong acting
- drank and smoked to change voice
- A Guy Named Joe (1943) dir. Victor Fleming
- steven Spielberg was most influenced by this film
- Jaws (1975) dir. Steven Spielberg
- camera captures swell of the sea as showing a boat
- The Making of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1995) dir. Laurent Bouzereau
- Spielberg wanted to make a single shot
- used different clothed people walk in front of camera to hide cuts
- Vertigo (1958) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- used the same style of filming as jaws
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) dir. Steven Spielberg
- camera dollys in
- spielbergs signature movement
- Jurassic Park (1993) dir. Steven Spielberg
- looking off in the distance
- camera and music rises
- the desire to see
- Star Wars (1977) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. George Lucas
- doubles jaws’ box office taking
- camera moves programmed by computers
- draws ritually from film history
- soft edge screenwipes
- The Hidden Fortress (1958) dir. Akira Kurosawa
- Triumph of the Will (1935) (a.k.a. Triumph des Willens) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Leni Riefenstahl