Tag: History
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The Importance of References to German Cinema in Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds”
The first chapter of Inglourious Basterds is titled “Once upon A Time in Nazi-occupied France” and this signals that we are in the realm of a fairy-tale, and “wish-fulfillment fantasy” as Quentin Tarantino said. Lt. Aldo Raine, an American with Native American roots, assembled a group of Jewish Nazi hunters, saying that each one of…
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In Denis Villeneuve’s Words: Hollywood and the Dream of a New World
“I think they built Hollywood on the West Coast because they were always dreaming of a New World. When they arrived here, the only way to keep dreaming was to make movies. Film was the fourth dimension.” – Denis Villeneuve In the introduction to his work Nomos of the Earth Carl Schmitt wrote that the…
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From “The Dawn of Man” to the 10,191 AG on Dune – “Everything Must Change So That Everything Can Stay the Same”
In the opening sequence of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: The Space Odyssey “The Dawn of Man”apes are seen fighting over resources, more concretely, a hole filled with water. We see the violent beginnings of human race in the pre-historic times, and in the famous scene the very piece of bone which is used to beat down…
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Religious Manipulation and Political Power: the Case of The Oracle of Delphi and Bene Gesserit from Dune Films
“The Delphic oracle, which for modern poets – Yeats, for example – can conjure up mystic romantic visions, was for Sophocles and his audience, a fact of life, an institution as present and solid, as uncompromising… as the Vatican is for us. States and individuals alike consulted it as a matter of course about important…
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In Yasujirô Ozu’s Words: The Change of Seasons
I tried to show the collapse of the Japanese family system through showing children growing up. Yasujirô Ozu Ozu’s post-war work, during the time when he made his most memorable films, is characterized by the same theme which is presented over and over. In his own words, he presents the “collapse of the Japanese family…
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Punishment of the Outcasts in the Classic of Japanese Cinema “Harakiri”
Masaki Kobayashi’s Harakiri belongs to the jidaigeki genre (period piece). It follows the period shortly after the battle at Sekigahara and the establishemnt of the Tokugawa shogunate (1630). The film begins with a short exposition by the official of House Iyi, who talks about the everyday life of the samurai warlord. It is a perspective…
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