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"Postmodern media manipulates time and space".
Post-modern media ' rejects the idea that any media product or text is of any greater value than another'. We no longer have any sense of the difference between real objects and images of them or real experiences and simulations of them. An idea gets stole, changed, remixed and played around with through pastiche, parody and intertextual references. Media reality is the new reality. The creator of the texts deliberately expose their remix as a constructed text and makes no attempt to pretend they are original.
Quentin Tarintino's Inglorious Bastards was well as many other films he has created is an example of a postmodern film. The film includes a lot of intertextuality including references from The Dirt Dozen, an American war film also set in the Second world war features similar scenes and concepts to Inglorious Bastards such as the line of men chosen to go to war. During the opening intro to the film Tarintino choses a western background track. This demonstrates the laws of time, this sound track was created after the time the film was set in, purposefully exhibited to the audience as an impossible combination portraying the film as being un realistic and untrue to reality.
Another example of a media text that manipulates time and space is the film Inception. The director Christopher Nolan directed inception to change the viewers perception on reality. The film plays around with the idea of dreaming and the layers which layers of dreams which are possible to reach in order to plant an idea. Nolan's tends to use real life scenes without the use of CGI, therefor this is an example of hyper reality because it uses a real life situation to create a fake reality. The characters within the film use an object which only they know the weight and properties of to differ the dreaming world from reality. At the end of the film the character play Leonardo DiCaprio spins his object, with the film ending before the audience are allowed to see if the spinning top stays spinning which would indicate he is still dreaming, or topple over showing he was back in reality. Inception shows a manipulation of time throughout the layers of dreaming. The dreaming time is much longer compared to reality so the characters get 1 hours of dreaming in the first layer when in reality they are only under for 1 minute. This time extends the further down the layers the characters get as they manipulate the time they have to plant the idea, making the viewer question realties physical boundaries.
Another film that manipulates time and space is 'Scott Pilgrim verses the world'. This film has a large range of intertextual references throughout. It uses visual and sound references such as sounds from saga video games to references from Jaws. The film makes obvious references to comic books through text 'kpow' and 'reversal' correlation to the actions Scott is making in his battle against Matthew Patel, also with Teken music playing in the background. During these battles where Scott has to defeat the seven evil ex's, he develops special powers such as in video games, showing a manipulation of space.
To conclude,
Quentin Tarintino's Inglorious Bastards was well as many other films he has created is an example of a postmodern film. The film includes a lot of intertextuality including references from The Dirt Dozen, an American war film also set in the Second world war features similar scenes and concepts to Inglorious Bastards such as the line of men chosen to go to war. During the opening intro to the film Tarintino choses a western background track. This demonstrates the laws of time, this sound track was created after the time the film was set in, purposefully exhibited to the audience as an impossible combination portraying the film as being un realistic and untrue to reality.
Another example of a media text that manipulates time and space is the film Inception. The director Christopher Nolan directed inception to change the viewers perception on reality. The film plays around with the idea of dreaming and the layers which layers of dreams which are possible to reach in order to plant an idea. Nolan's tends to use real life scenes without the use of CGI, therefor this is an example of hyper reality because it uses a real life situation to create a fake reality. The characters within the film use an object which only they know the weight and properties of to differ the dreaming world from reality. At the end of the film the character play Leonardo DiCaprio spins his object, with the film ending before the audience are allowed to see if the spinning top stays spinning which would indicate he is still dreaming, or topple over showing he was back in reality. Inception shows a manipulation of time throughout the layers of dreaming. The dreaming time is much longer compared to reality so the characters get 1 hours of dreaming in the first layer when in reality they are only under for 1 minute. This time extends the further down the layers the characters get as they manipulate the time they have to plant the idea, making the viewer question realties physical boundaries.
Another film that manipulates time and space is 'Scott Pilgrim verses the world'. This film has a large range of intertextual references throughout. It uses visual and sound references such as sounds from saga video games to references from Jaws. The film makes obvious references to comic books through text 'kpow' and 'reversal' correlation to the actions Scott is making in his battle against Matthew Patel, also with Teken music playing in the background. During these battles where Scott has to defeat the seven evil ex's, he develops special powers such as in video games, showing a manipulation of space.
To conclude,
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