-Kill Bill
-Star Wars
-Raiders of the Lost Ark
-The Matrix
-Scary Movie
-Scott Pilgrim vs the World
-Scarface
-District 9
-Kick Ass
-Blazing Saddles
Monday, 23 May 2011
The Appropriation Debate- For & Against
i don't have a single film i like for any reason related to appropriation at all. I think every film should be viewed individually therefore i have no other opinion on it and will not be able to think of an example. This is why we didn't go with it in the first place when we discussed it with lucy.
if we have to do appropriation then i'm screwed cos i don't believe in it, especially as a reason to archive a film. Just because they have the same base stroy line, they are not the same. Like pocahontas and avatar - there's now way u can compare them both even though they are exactly the same story and i wouldn't want to archive either of them just because they happen to have the same story as another film.
as far as i'm concerned every film should be judged on it's own merit and nothing should be archived just because it has parts of something else in it.
this could be a healthy discussion on it's own but as it stands it's for a project about why we think certain films should be archived becuase of the relevance of the appropriation in them, where as i belive nothing should be archived for this reason, i never even see appropriation in films, it goes against everything i believe as a film maker
what do u suggest now?
-Rob
if we have to do appropriation then i'm screwed cos i don't believe in it, especially as a reason to archive a film. Just because they have the same base stroy line, they are not the same. Like pocahontas and avatar - there's now way u can compare them both even though they are exactly the same story and i wouldn't want to archive either of them just because they happen to have the same story as another film.
as far as i'm concerned every film should be judged on it's own merit and nothing should be archived just because it has parts of something else in it.
this could be a healthy discussion on it's own but as it stands it's for a project about why we think certain films should be archived becuase of the relevance of the appropriation in them, where as i belive nothing should be archived for this reason, i never even see appropriation in films, it goes against everything i believe as a film maker
what do u suggest now?
-Rob
Monday, 16 May 2011
Vickys Archive Choice...
Scary Movie!
In my opinion, if an appropriated film is good enough to be archived then it needs to justify why it is “taking” context from other films (appropriating). And the reason scary movie does this is because it makes the audience clear that it is ‘mocking’ a number of different scary films. The film does this for a comedy effect, for example in the film when two of the characters are at the cinema, the preview screen reads: “The following peeview has been assproved for immature audiences only”, which is a joke in itself but also making it obvious to the audience what kind of a film it is. Another reason this appropriated film should be archived is because throughout the four scary movie films they reference many different films from the horror genre, so that the majority of the audience watching the film will be able to recognize at least some of the references from all of the films it is getting them from, and the audience will recognize where the humor is coming from.
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