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PAPER 1: Surrealist + FNW - Coggle Diagram
PAPER 1: Surrealist + FNW
Novelty + Innovation
The 400 Blows
Beginning of a new movement, against the unoriginal ways of ToQ cinema
Guerilla approach
new handheld cameras
Documentary style techniques
Improvisation
no set script, Antoine's actor encouraged to improvise
Surrealism
Defying most usual rules of cinema
Un Chein
'psychic automatism'
Uncommon graphic imagery
Use of impressive editing, effects + make-up
Anti-narrative
L'Age D'or
somewhat more narratively conventional
critique of society
religious
bourgeiose (and their repressed sexualities, formalness)
graphic imagery
scatological imagery
Stemming from the 1920s, a unique take on surrealism
Narrative
400 Blows
Open Ended ending (freeze-frame)
unlike traditional TOQ or Hollywood endings
Loose episodic structure of viginettes
consistent cause-and-effect
Surrealism
Auteur (aesthetics)
Surrealism
Theme
Anti-Bourgeiose
Critique of organised religion
Sexual Desire and Reputation
Techniques
Lack of traditional logic
Time + Space violated
Shocking, graphic imagery
Eye-slice, bugs crawling out of hand, severed hand, death (un chein)
Scatological imagery of lover flushing toilet, survivors of 120 days of sodom with Jesus pictured, woman sucking toes, man violently attacking older, upper class women
400 Blows
Techniques
Improvised dialogue
Psychologist Scene
Long shots
Fluid tracking shots
Ending freeze frame
Loose episodic structure
Limited use of score
Narrative
Cinema as an escape
Autobiographical
Open-ended ending
Unlike traditional hollywood + TOQ endings
Realism vs Expressive
400 Blows
Realism
Shot on location
Long, uninterrepted takes
Expressive
Surrealism
Expressive
disjointed editing
nonsensical titlecards
contrapuntal sound
tango in un chein
Realist
natural locations, costumes, detailed mis-en-scene
shots framed and lit conventionally like silent film