Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Reading Response 3

Compare and Contrast
I choose to contrast Entr’ace and Life and Death of 9413 A Hollywood Extra. A similarity both film have is a woman that is reoccurring in each film. In Entr’ace the woman is a dancer, which the camera angle is at first underneath of her showing her feet to her tutu. Then the camera angle moves to a more traditional one showing her whole figure. The woman in Life and Death of 9413 stands up and sits down repetitively. Both films have the woman in each film as repetitive images. Both films have coffins in them, but in Entr’ace the coffin opens up and someone gets out of it in a grass field, where as in Life and Death of 9413 in the coffin is the man who is current through out the film. Cities were used in both films, however in Entr’ace the city is filmed at all different angles, most untraditional angles, in Life and Death the city that is shown is a more traditional angle, but the city itself looks unrealistic. In Life and Death of 9413 A Hollywood Extra, there are intertitle cards whereas Entr’ace does not have intertitle cards. Close ups were used in both films, in Entr’ace there was close ups of the canon, and in Life and Death, there were close ups of the man’s hand. Lastly both films used an overlapping technique of two different images.

1 comment:

  1. Good.

    In Entr'acte, of course, the dancer ends up being a bearded man.

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