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Flashcards by Hansa Luximan, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Hansa Luximan
about 10 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Christopher Nolan | Low budget (2000), based on Memento Mori by Jonathan Nolan. |
| Film Noir | 40s a new form of cinema - dark, gloomy, anxiety of a country in a new era. Nino Frank coined Film Noir. Classical Male Protagonist. Borrows from thrillers, horror and science fiction |
| Moods | Melancholy, alienation, bleakness, disillusionment, disenchantment, pessimism, ambiguity, moral corruption, evil, guild, paranoia. |
| Male protagonist | Hard working, brooding, menacing, sinister, sardonic, disillusioned, frightened, insecure. Loner in metropolitan architecture, looking for possible hints for his work. |
| Femme fatale | closer to scenery of crime, friendship with police person or woman from underworld. |
| Story line | Law and order, outsiders, losers, criminals busy plotting revenge or murder, inescapable fate. |
| Cinematography | Low fey lighting, night and shadows = coldness and darkness, rain drenched streets |
| Neo Noir | 30s, 40s, 50s, but more flexible use. Todd Erickson uses neo noir to describe contemporary films that have same aspects |
| Noir/Film Noir | Revenge movie (hero gets revenge) |
| Basic plotline | Leonard Shelby, suffering individual. Reverse order of actual events. Mentally damaged by brutal attack on him and his wife. Inability to remember. Drug ring with greed and revenge. Nolan : burden of making relationships between the parts of the work shifted from author to viewer. |
| Parallel Story plot | Sammy Jankins. Wife killed by Leonard himself. Revenge motivation planted by Teddy to make him an efficient killer. |
| Narrative Structure | 22 color and 22 BW sequences. Color is reversed. Viewer is asked to identify Leonard as subject, subjective point of view. BW, traditional, moving forward, space of second person, objective view of character. |
| Blending | BW scenes are part of frame plot, helps understand what's happening in color. final bw scene changes to color. |
| Narrator | Unreliable and flawed narrator. Holes and gaps in his narration. Need for target, chooses Teddy, deception of filmic representation of his character. Mistakes I for 1 while writing down Teddy's license plate number. In home, Sammy's face is replaced with Lenny's. We are duped. |
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