Wednesday, 4 February 2015

4/5th of February lesson notes

Francis Ford Capolla - Dracula 1992/93 copied many features from F.W. Morraw's 'Nosferatu'
  • Rising fro the coffin
  • Shadows on the wall
Simpsons Dracula
  • Burns licks his lips of blood
  • Burns in the sky
  • Gary Oldman Dracula look-a-like
- Salums' lot - floating Bart, Millhouse & other characters
- Self reflexivity - acknowledging that there was an audience
- Charlie Brown Christmas - singing - Simpsons family do this
- Dead island - Non-linearity - not chronological
- Confusion of time and space - you have to figure it out - pulp fiction/moulon rouge
- Baz Hurman - starts out as a play - immediately shows itself as a media text.
- Intertextual reference to sound of music
- Diamond dogs - David Bowie - girls
- Pink Christina - Lady Marmalade
- lots of eclectic borrowing

Blue Harvest - Family Guy star wars episode
  • They use the same into sequence
  • Bush Cheney sticker on the back of Darth Vaders' ship
  • Lethal Weapon - 'damn I was leaving in two days
  • Making fun of deal or no deal
  • Location/renovation programmes
  • Self reflexivity - John Williams orchestra
  • Saying that Han Solo is the only actor who's career wasn't stopped by this movie - Harrison Ford
  • reference to Dr. who - 'Hyper space always looks so freaky'
  • Reference to dirty dancing - Herbert & Chris
  • shopping mall layout confusion mick take
  • Taken the Star Wars theme tune (Darth Vader) and turned it into elevator music
  • Peter turns himself into a radio agony aunt.
  • Pastiche because it copies the storyline but it doesn't rely on the context for its humour
  • air plane - I'm counting on you - breakfast club reference

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