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Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988
• Collect Homework
• View & Discuss Cinema ���Paradiso
• Discuss Final Exam
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• Grand Prize, Cannes Film Fes6val • Best Foreign Film, Golden Globes
• 5 Bri6sh Academy Film Awards, including best film, actor, screenplay & music
• On numerous Top 100 lists
• Generally an audience favorite
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Is passion related to death?
• Passionless-ness as a form of death – Elena
– Alfredo – The Cinema Paradiso
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• How can it be “good” ���that Toto & Elena ���couldn’t be together?
Self-discovery, Memories, and Ghosts
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• What crucial symbolic differences exist between being a “projectionist” and a “director”?
What do they represent to us?
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– Places of discovery and transgression
– Inner journeys
– Landscapes of the imagination
– Illusion of magic
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• Bildungsroman: Coming of age story – Künstlerroman: Artist coming of age
• Journey of discovery & remembrance • Love story: thwarted, tragic, or mature? • Melodrama
Any notable formal elements?
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• Flashbacks / Frame Narratives (reinforcing the theme of Salvatore’s disconnected nature)
• Lots of self-reflexivity
• Jump cuts (in edited films & between past/present)
• Famous Kiss Montage
• High-angle perspectives
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• International release • Salvatore woos but loses ���
Elena when her father ���disapproves and they move
• Letters are undelivered
• Director’s Cut: original domestic/Italian release plus some earlier deleted scenes
• Domestic Italian Release • Late in film, the older Salvatore notices a young girl
who resembles Elena & follows her home • She is Elena’s daughter … • Salvatore tries to persuade Elena to give up
everything for him. She won’t. • She tells him Alfredo told ���
her to stay away from him���— for his own good … and���because he would have ���given up everything for her
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Monday, December 6th, 4:30-‐6:20, CH 101
• Know-‐it-‐or-‐you-‐don’ts – Defini6ons – Iden6fica6ons – Screencaps – Short Answers
• One theme-‐and-‐meaning essay (no clip)
• One form-‐and-‐meaning essay (clip)
• One mystery clip essay
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• 30% of final grade • … invaluable to your emo6onal, intellectual, and spiritual growth
• 110 minutes (4:30-‐6:20 p.m., December 6)
• … will linger much longer, perhaps forever, in your memory and soul—like a scar
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• Con6nuity Edi6ng • Discon6nuity/Disjunc6ve
Edi6ng • Sta6onary Shot • Establishing Shot • Frame Narra6ve • Iris Edit • Mise en scene • Framing • Blocking • Shot/Reverse Shot • Eyeline Match • Nega6ve vs. Posi6ve Space
• Tracking Shot/Travelling Shot • Long take • Diege6c sound • Non-‐diege6c sound • Low angle shot (worm view) • High angle shot • Pan • Dutch or “canted” angles • Deep Focus • Dissolve • Low-‐key ligh6ng • Backligh6ng • Montage
Analyze the mise en scene of the following clip. Watch the clip twice, taking notes on the ways its visual techniques relate to its themes and meaning. Then, using appropriate terminology, discuss these technical elements as specifically as possible. Remember, your focus should be on the ways the film’s form relates to (and creates) meaning.