The test will focus on Some Like It Hot, Chungking Express, Cinema Paradiso, and the key terms and concepts from chapter 3 of our textbook, Understanding Movies. Also, review everything from the beginning of the course, such as the definition of "rhetoric," and literary, dramatic, and cinematic aspects, etc.
Be sure to focus on these areas in your review:
Be sure to focus on these areas in your review:
- Cinema Paradiso: Establishing shot; characterization of Toto; minor characters & how they develop (character arcs); Italian life post WWII; symbolic imagery; Magical Realism; Alfredo's 3 "magic tricks"; jump cut; final images (before & after the credits); elegy; the "Cinema of Life." Be able to cite specific examples of these concepts from the film to prove your point.
- Chungking Express: Hong Kong cinema (and how this film is and isn't typical of the genre), traditional comic plot structure, motifs (time, love-sickness, expiration, change & variety), freeze frame, Quentin Tarantino's DVD Special Features, web of life plot structure, painterly vs. linear style, impressionism. Be able to cite specific examples of these concepts from the film to prove your point.
- Some Like It Hot: Comic structure (beginning with social upheaval), Sugar's songs' lyrics, Screwball Comedy, curtain line, swish pan, phallic symbol, day for night shooting, filmed in black and white for a reason, parallel editing (crosscutting), using proxemic patterns to create humor, parody, sight gags, slapstick, repartee, situational comedy, sexual innuendo, running gag, dramatic irony, meta-filmic moments. Be able to cite specific examples of these concepts from the film to prove your point.
- From Ch. 3 of Understanding Movies: Kinetic symbolism, vertical/upward movements, minimalists, swish pan, pull back, stationary camera vs. handheld, steadicam, 24 fps, persistence of vision, fast motion vs. slow motion, freeze frame.
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