How is music used in Jarhead to aid the narrative and mood of the film?
The music used in the film is contantly contrapuntal to the scene happening, which gives the audience a different sense of atmosphere or emotion.
Hip Hop music is played in one scene of the film, that the soilders can hear and are dancing to the music. You could say that they wanted to become these rappers and present the message of the song themselves.
Chemical Warfare clothing race scene has 'T-Rex - Get it on' playing as non diegetic sound in the background as it relates to the scene very effectively. Mendes purposely uses a fast paced song in a very fast and rushed scene to create urgency. Also the audience notice that it wakes the characters and themselves. Another link is that the name of the song 'get it on' relates to the soilders task.
In what way does the film meet your expectations of the war genre and hows does it challenge expectations of the war genre?
The mise-en-scene within the film signifies that is a war film that is contemporary and modern, realting to the weapons they use that would never usually be seen in early years. Also for example, the military uniform connotes the usual expectations in a war film that the audience instantly realise what type of film it is (due to the cinema code).
Also you see mise-en-abime within Jarhead, when you notice the soilders in their free time watch a very popular war film to influence and inspire the soliders to carry on with their training and fight. This again, suggests that this film is realted to war life and situations.
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Robert Altman
February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006
Robert Altman was an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.
Altman was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He was the son of Helen a Mayflower descendant from Nebraska, and Bernard Clement Altman, a wealthy insurance salesman and amateur gambler who came from an upper-class family.
In 1969 Altman was offered the script for MASH, an adaptation of a little-known Korean War-era novel satirizing life in the armed services, which had already been passed over by over a dozen other filmmakers. Altman agreed to direct the project, and though production was so tumultuous that stars Elliot Gould and Donald Sutherland even attempted to have Altman fired over his unorthodox filming methods, MASH was widely hailed as an immediate classic upon its 1970 release. It won the Grand Prix for the Best Film at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival and netted six Academy Award nominations. It was also Altman's highest grossing film. Now recognized as a major talent, Altman's career took firm hold with the success of MASH, and he followed it with other critical breakthroughs such as McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), The Long Goodbye (1973), Thieves Like Us (1974) and Nashville (1975), which made the distinctive, experimental "Altman style" well known.
Altman died at the age of 81 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. According to his production company in New York, Sandcastle 5 Productions, he died of complications from leukemia.
Robert Altman was an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award.
Altman was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He was the son of Helen a Mayflower descendant from Nebraska, and Bernard Clement Altman, a wealthy insurance salesman and amateur gambler who came from an upper-class family.
In 1969 Altman was offered the script for MASH, an adaptation of a little-known Korean War-era novel satirizing life in the armed services, which had already been passed over by over a dozen other filmmakers. Altman agreed to direct the project, and though production was so tumultuous that stars Elliot Gould and Donald Sutherland even attempted to have Altman fired over his unorthodox filming methods, MASH was widely hailed as an immediate classic upon its 1970 release. It won the Grand Prix for the Best Film at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival and netted six Academy Award nominations. It was also Altman's highest grossing film. Now recognized as a major talent, Altman's career took firm hold with the success of MASH, and he followed it with other critical breakthroughs such as McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), The Long Goodbye (1973), Thieves Like Us (1974) and Nashville (1975), which made the distinctive, experimental "Altman style" well known.
Altman died at the age of 81 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. According to his production company in New York, Sandcastle 5 Productions, he died of complications from leukemia.
The Hays Code/BBFC
Latest Releases
Mothers Day - 18 rated film.
The British Board of Film Classification decided to classify this film as an 18+ as it contains strong sadistic violence and gore. Also includes very strong language and some sexual content.
Son of Babylon - 12 rated film.
The British Board of Film Classification decided to classify this film as 12+ footage, as it contains images of mass graves and distressing scenes of grief. Also contains some mild langauge and no sexual references.
Mothers Day - 18 rated film.
The British Board of Film Classification decided to classify this film as an 18+ as it contains strong sadistic violence and gore. Also includes very strong language and some sexual content.
Son of Babylon - 12 rated film.
The British Board of Film Classification decided to classify this film as 12+ footage, as it contains images of mass graves and distressing scenes of grief. Also contains some mild langauge and no sexual references.
Monday, 7 February 2011
Synopsis Idea:War Film
In the late summer of 2008, in the town of Surrey. A young man called Jerry Witters is called out to the Charlie Regiment based in Afganistan and has to leave his mother, Jane and his younger brother Lennie. His mother suffers from lung cancer and has no idea how much longer she has to live. The highest officer of the regiment promises young Jerry that if he completes his combat for two years they will provide him with enough money for his mothers disease to be cured. Just before his two years are served, a letter is sent home to his mother to inform her that Jerry is missing, after tears and depression her youngest decides to become join the force and recieve the money promised to save his mothers life and also find his older brother Jerry. But with many adventures and challenges along the way, will he find his brother in the end? And will they both survive to help cure this terminal disease that their loving mother is soon to die from?
Codes and Conventions of the War Genre
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War (and anti-war) films acknowledge the horror and heartbreak of war, letting the actual combat fighting (against nations or humankind) on land, sea, or in the air provide the primary plot or background for the action of the film. War films are often paired with other genres, such as action, adventure, drama, romance, comedy and they often take a negative approach towards warfare.
A movie genre where war is either the major action of the film or the essential background for the film's action. Though largely focused on combat or preparation for fighting, the genre also embraces other war-related subjects: prisoners of war, resistance fighters in occupied countries, spy activities during wartime. War can also serve as a context for highly dramatic situations though the characters may not be directly involved in the fighting. Although war is as old as mankind, the term war film is usually restricted to movies dealing with modern warfare and situations closely allied to war or armed forces. The movies dealing with more distant historical periods are better be described as historical films.
War (and anti-war) films acknowledge the horror and heartbreak of war, letting the actual combat fighting (against nations or humankind) on land, sea, or in the air provide the primary plot or background for the action of the film. War films are often paired with other genres, such as action, adventure, drama, romance, comedy and they often take a negative approach towards warfare.
A movie genre where war is either the major action of the film or the essential background for the film's action. Though largely focused on combat or preparation for fighting, the genre also embraces other war-related subjects: prisoners of war, resistance fighters in occupied countries, spy activities during wartime. War can also serve as a context for highly dramatic situations though the characters may not be directly involved in the fighting. Although war is as old as mankind, the term war film is usually restricted to movies dealing with modern warfare and situations closely allied to war or armed forces. The movies dealing with more distant historical periods are better be described as historical films.
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