Kill Bill 2- Tarantino
We watched sections of this movie in class, and saw how Tarantino uses thriller signifiers in this action adventure martial arts film.
Sequence: The Brides Burial. In the opening to Kill Bill 2 Tarantino uses two Intertextual references to Hitchcock’s ‘Pshyco’ (1960).
One reference is the soundtrack and two is the close up of the bride driving her car, this refers to Marion Crane leaving town with stolen money.
Why has Tarantino used these references?
To intensify suspense
To indicate the bride’s anger
To flatter the audience
To use it as a tribute to Hitchcock, from himself.
Pshyco – Alfred Hitchcock – 1960
After watching parts of ‘Kill Bill 2’ we watched part way through ‘Pshyco’. Hitchcock uses this film as a tribute to 1940s noir thrillers.
The soundtrack is extremely dominant. The establishing shot is a crane shot of a city, an anchored place, Pheonix, Arizona. The date is shown in this shot and is often referred back to later on. Then comes a point of view shot, where the audience is watching from, a peeping tom. The cinema is voyeuristic, the zoom into the hotel bedroom window connotes this.
A helpful word to use relating to this type of film is:
Misogynist – fear of hatred of woman.
Femme fatale is a deviant manipulative woman usually misogynist constructs.
The hotel at the start of this film is a cheap hotel, showing the unglamorous location.
The scene in the hotel shows that men have the most social status, playing the woman down.
Marion Crane after she’d left the office, is wearing black underwear where as it was white in the opening sequence.
Marion in black underwear indicates that her moral descent has plunged. Marion has been tempted by the money because she thinks happiness will buy her love from her lover.
We watched sections of this movie in class, and saw how Tarantino uses thriller signifiers in this action adventure martial arts film.
Sequence: The Brides Burial. In the opening to Kill Bill 2 Tarantino uses two Intertextual references to Hitchcock’s ‘Pshyco’ (1960).
One reference is the soundtrack and two is the close up of the bride driving her car, this refers to Marion Crane leaving town with stolen money.
Why has Tarantino used these references?
To intensify suspense
To indicate the bride’s anger
To flatter the audience
To use it as a tribute to Hitchcock, from himself.
Pshyco – Alfred Hitchcock – 1960
After watching parts of ‘Kill Bill 2’ we watched part way through ‘Pshyco’. Hitchcock uses this film as a tribute to 1940s noir thrillers.
The soundtrack is extremely dominant. The establishing shot is a crane shot of a city, an anchored place, Pheonix, Arizona. The date is shown in this shot and is often referred back to later on. Then comes a point of view shot, where the audience is watching from, a peeping tom. The cinema is voyeuristic, the zoom into the hotel bedroom window connotes this.
A helpful word to use relating to this type of film is:
Misogynist – fear of hatred of woman.
Femme fatale is a deviant manipulative woman usually misogynist constructs.
The hotel at the start of this film is a cheap hotel, showing the unglamorous location.
The scene in the hotel shows that men have the most social status, playing the woman down.
Marion Crane after she’d left the office, is wearing black underwear where as it was white in the opening sequence.
Marion in black underwear indicates that her moral descent has plunged. Marion has been tempted by the money because she thinks happiness will buy her love from her lover.
There are a lot of close ups in this movie as it adds to the tension. A lot of silence then sudden sounds are used too. There are shots looking into the car mirror as if you're Marion looking back at the car following her.
When she is holding the money to pay for the new car, close ups are used to emphasise this moment.
There are voiceovers while she is driving, playing over discussions that are maybe being held by her family, co workers and boss. We never know if they actually happened or if its just echoing her guilt.
Norman Bates is a creepy loner.
In a couple shots he is standing infront of a bird, so the wings are either side of him, making it look as if he himself has wings too.
Birds are seen as passive, and so is Marion.
Marion Crane.
Crane = Bird.
Stuffed birds anticipate her fate, death/mortality and the paralysis of freedom.
Bates tells Crane she eats like a bird. Strange thing to say to someone, she finds him a bit scary.
1 comment:
Charlotte has mainly limited understanding of film language. From her notes she couldhave contructed interesting case studies.
Overall this aspect of coursework indicates mainly limited - basic understanding.
Low Level 2 (just) 8/20
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