There are several common
things in these three movies by Jim Jarmusch. Characters are developed by
dialogue. Dialogue is one of the important elements in his movie. Also color is
muted or black and white which cause the overall noir tone of the film. There
are a lot of long shots. He set
outsiders as main characters. His story is about outsiders who are different
race and who use different language traveling America. They came to America
with some reason with expectation of their fantasy in America. His movies tell
about this gap between fantasy and reality using characters and their point of
view. He used international actors. Music is also important in his movie.
Thursday, May 4, 2017
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Goose father
Most essential visual moments:
·
Setting: Apartment-balcony, Karaoke
·
Main theme: His loneliness, missing his family
after 6 months and needed contact
·
Color scheme – cool greys and blue where the boy
would have a cool palate
·
Protagonist: Gilho
·
Ages would be changed to 25 and 35
·
Scenes:
o
Need to establish that he has a family and that
he is sending money to them / show his loneliness
o
The arrival of the boy – sitting on the door
matt
o
He hates the goose – the boy never mentioned a
goose
o
6 the next morning - boy made breakfast
(uncomfortable to see a man preforming a woman’s role) – talks about his poetry
o
Walks in on the boy talking to the goose, tells
him that the goose is his mom reincarnated – shows the difference in their
thoughts
o
Montage – of the boy clinging to him, sponge on
his feet saying poems
o
The boy felt emotional after watching a whale
documentary, he took him to karaoke to cheer him up
o
Talking to wife about how weird the boy is, wife
says to get a new one
o
Karaoke scene – the boy tried to kiss him, slaps
the boy, boy disappears
o
He worries about the boy, telling the police
o
Goes to get a green card, man said he was so
lucky, but he didn’t feel like it
o
Walking through the slums, comes across 2
prostitutes, he touched her breast but her hip kept appearing like a boys and
in her eyes he say the boy – had a revelation
o
Goes to the Bar – talks about how horrid kids
are these days, but they envy them
o
He returned with Taeyeong, both drunk from the
bar
o
The boy is home – the snow begins to fall, there
is a glow in the room
o
Taeyeong tried to pluck a feather from the goose
o
Gilho thought about killing the goose, choking
it, but he didn’t – he compares himself to the goose
o
Then the goose mom scene – He asked the goose
for forgiveness, he sees the goose as the boy’s mom – he sees life through the
eyes of the boy
§
He saw the silhouette of a woman before he
walked out on the balcony – but then when he goes out on the balcony it just
the goose
§
Everything has a glow, there’s a full moon,
everything has a warm glow, which contrasts the cool scheme the movie had
before
o
Gilho says his final lines to the boy/ “I’ve
been lonely, I’ve been lonely all my life”
The Dew Breaker
How are our characters connected to
the world?
The
Dew Breaker is a novel published in 2004 by Edwidge Danticat. This book has a
collection of 9 short stories that has no connection superficially. Characters
from each stories had pain directly from the dew breaker. The dew breaker
character is a barber in America. Before
he moved into America, he worked for Haitian government helping dictate and
torture people. He is important man in the Haitian community like a leader in
America. He is a respected leader helping people well settled. But he was the person murdered their parents,
daughter and son. In Bridal Seamstress, The father who is the dew breaker
wanted to rape her, she said no, he whipped bottom of her feet and made her
walk long trip with bloody bare feet. In the funeral singer, the woman who
sings at the funeral whose husband he killed. By telling individual chapters
different stories we see how crossed over and interrelated the crimes people,
places are. We learn more about the father.
Author
didn’t judge character. The dew breaker
is in both their life in Haiti and America. He is the reason why they couldn’t
live and could live. Even though he did not reveal himself to them and say that
he was the dew breaker, he pays off and repents what he has done in his country
by his own way.
Story of An Hour
The story is about
a woman having heart disease whose life is dominated by her husband. One day,
the railroad disaster happened. People thought her husband was on the list of
killed and they told her hesitating since they were worried the case her heart
attack happening by getting shock. However, her reaction was dull. Later after
she realizes her husband is alive by looking at him came back to home, she gets
heart attack.
This story has
some points to discuss; economically, politically, socially and psychologically
of patriarchy. Economically, her husband had all the power. He worked and
controlled money. Women had no jobs; she just stayed home and did household
things. She was relying on her husband entirely. If her husband dies, it means
money dies and she looses everything. Politically, She used to getting controlled
by her husband. Death of husband is birth of her independence of
herself. Reading the story, I found one thing interesting. In the book, main
character’s sister who called as Josephine told her that her husband died by
accident. In reality, Josephine Henry who was a major activist in the fight for
women’s equality made the Married Woman’s Property Act in 1894 when this story
published. I think this is meaningful. Socially, the main character is
protected from stress. Even heart issues, everything about her shows her as
frail, weak and breakable. Psychologically, her emotion has been changed
from sad and dominated with no freedom to happy and self-controlled. Her life is getting freedom back. People think the reason of her death is that she got
heart attack cause she was so happy to see him which is not true. The fact is
that she died because she was sad to see him.
Wonder Woman
There are several
categories when I can talk about hero; physical such as age and race, talent,
history, abilities, strengths and weakness.
Also how they solve their problem is important. I am not huge fan of
hero genre and I’ve never though about designing my own hero character. I would
rather have brilliant problem solver than physically fighting hero. My hero is young female who likes reading
books. She was famous as spelling bee when she was young. She can spell all the
words. She understood physics when she
was 7. She has no limitation of brain capacity. She also has one special talent
that other people never have. She can listen people inner voice. She can read
people’s thought. She is going to solve the things using her intellectual
power.
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