Kick ass soundtrack- Postmodernism

The sound track.
1. "Stand Up" The Prodigy 5:08
2. "Kick Ass (Radio Edit)" Mika vs. RedOne 3:11
3. "Can't Go Back" Primal Scream 3:46
4. "There's a Pot a Brewin'" The Little Ones 3:13
5. "Omen" The Prodigy 3:54
6. "Make Me Wanna Die" The Pretty Reckless 3:55
7. "Banana Splits (Kick-Ass Film Version)" The Dickies 2:04
8. "Starry Eyed" Ellie Goulding 2:57
9. "This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Both Of Us" Sparks 3:03
10. "We're All In Love" The New York Dolls 4:50
11. "Bongo Song" Zongamin 5:00
12. "Per Qualche Dollaro in Più (For a Few Dollars More)" Ennio Morricone 2:53
13. "Bad Reputation" The Hit Girls 2:56
14. "An American Trilogy" Elvis Presley 4:31

The score.
1. "The Armenian Superhero" Henry Jackman, Marius De Vries 1:59
2. "Stand Up" The Prodigy 3:32
3. "Forcefield" Marius De Vries 1:05
4. "Watching" Henry Jackman 1:01
5. "Man in the Mirror" Henry Jackman 1:08
6. "A Punch in the Chest" Marius De Vries 0:45
7. "Roof Jump" Marius De Vries,Eshkeri 1:31
8. "Time to Engage" Henry Jackman 0:26
9. "Stabbing-Morphine" Marius De Vries, The Prodigy 1:56
10. "I'm Kick-Ass" Henry Jackman 1:16
11. "Famous"Jackman,Murphy, Marius De Vries, Ilan Eshkeri 2:22
12. "A Friend Like You" Marius De Vries 0:43
13. "Walk to Rasul's" Danny Elfman 0:58
14. "Trick or Treat?" Marius De Vries, Ilan Eshkeri 2:43
15. "Leaving Rasul's" John Murphy 1:18
16. "Hit-Girl & Big Daddy" John Murphy 2:39
17. "Damon & Marcus Comic Book" Henry Jackman, John Murphy 3:24
18. "I Miss You Both" John Murphy, Ilan Eshkeri 1:40
19. "Hunting Kick-Ass" Henry Jackman 1:04
20. "MistMobile" Henry Jackman 1:40
21. "Big Daddy Kills" John Murphy 2:50
22. "One Last Time" Marius De Vries 0:57
23. "Sleepover" Marius De Vries 1:57
24. "To Brooklyn Bridge" Marius De Vries 1:42
25. "Safehouse / Ambush" John Murphy 2:34
26. "Showtime Pt. 2 John Murphy 2:25
27. "Nightvision" John Murphy 1:57
28. "Strobe (Adagio in D Minor)" John Murphy 2:02
29. "Big Daddy Dies" Henry Jackman, John Murphy 1:33
30. "Hit-Girl Drives Home" John Murphy 1:42
31. "Marshmallows" John Murphy 1:12
32. "Choose Your Weapon" Ilan Eshkeri 1:26
33. "You Got Five Minutes" Marius De Vries 0:35
34. "No Power, No Responsibility" Henry Jackman 1:16
35. "The Corridor" John Murphy 1:16
36. "Kitchen Stand Off" John Murphy, Ilan Eshkeri 1:19
37. "The Fight" Jackman, Murphy, De Vries, Eshkeri 3:12
38. "Flying Home" Henry Jackman, John Murphy 1:49
39. "True Identity" Henry Jackman 1:39

Henry Jackman
"The Da Vinci Code"
"Pirates of the Caribbean"
"The Holiday"
"At World's End"
"The Simpsons Movie"
"Vantage Point"
"Kung Fu Panda"
"The Dark Knight"
"Hancock"
"Monsters vs. Aliens"
"Henri IV"
"Gulliver's Travels"
"X-Men: First Class"
"Winnie the Pooh"
"Kick-Ass"



This is from the scene where big daddy kills all of the 'baddies' in the wearhouse. This peice of music was also used in the film 28 days later.

Inglorious bastards. Postmodernism.

Story line.
In Nazi occupied France, young Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the slaughter of her family by Colonel Hans Landa. Narrowly escaping with her life, she plots her revenge several years later when German war hero Fredrick Zoller takes a rapid interest in her and arranges an illustrious movie premiere at the theater she now runs. With the promise of every major Nazi officer in attendance, the event catches the attention of the "Basterds", a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers led by the ruthless Lt. Aldo Raine. As the relentless executioners advance and the conspiring young girl's plans are set in motion, their paths will cross for a fateful evening that will shake the very annals of history.
Cast.
Brad Pitt ... Lt. Aldo Raine
Mélanie Laurent ... Shosanna Dreyfus
Christoph Waltz ... Col. Hans Landa
Eli Roth ... Sgt. Donny Donowitz
Michael Fassbender ... Lt. Archie Hicox
Diane Kruger ... Bridget von Hammersmark
Daniel Brühl ... Pvt. Fredrick Zoller



Director.
Quentin Tarantino.


Born:March 27, 1963.



Influences for IB...
The white hell of pitz palu (1929)



The inglorious bastards (1978)



True romance (1993)



Blaxploitation
Examples of this are...

Shaft (1971) directed by Gordan parks



Black dinamite (2009) Scott Sanders



Blaxploitation is a film genre that emerged in the United States circa 1971 when many exploitation films were made specifically for an audience of urban black people; the word itself is a portmanteau of the words "black" and "exploitation," and was coined in the early 1970s. Blaxploitation films were the first to feature soundtracks of funk and soul music. These films starred primarily black actors. When set in the Northeast or West Coast of the U.S., Blaxploitation films tend to take place in the ghetto, dealing with hit men, drug dealers and pimps. The genre frequently takes place in an atmosphere of crime and drug-dealing. Ethnic slurs against whites,and negative white characters like corrupt cops, politicians, prostitutes and gullible gangsters were common. Blaxploitation films set in the South often take place on a plantation, dealing with slavery and miscegenation.

Spaghetti Western
Examples of this is ...
The good the bad and the ugly (1966)


For a few dollars more (1965)



Spaghetti Western, also known as Italo-western, is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western film that emerged in the mid-1960s, so named because most were produced and directed by Italians. The language in which the movies were originally released was Italian as well. Typical themes in spaghetti westerns include the Mexican Revolution, Mexican bandits, and the border region shared by Mexico and the United States.


Ennio Morricone

Is an Italian composer and conductor.
He is considered one of the most prolific and influential film composers of his era Morricone has composed and arranged scores for more than 500 film and TV productions. He is well-known for his long-term collaborations with international acclaimed directors such as Sergio Leone, Brian De Palma, Barry Levinson, and Giuseppe Tornatore.

Simple WW2 timeline...

Things needed to do for ford. Postmodernism

-Biography.
-Filmography.
-Reviews of Inglourious Basterds.
-Music used in the film. Include a list of songs with reference to their original source.
-Description of Blaxploitation. Include film clips and music as examples.
-Description of Spaghetti Western and Western. Include film clips and music as examples.
-Ennio Morricone.
-A simple timeline of World War II.
-After watching the film you need to think about the following:

-Other postmodern elements e.g.: the foot fetish, the 'reveal' of the set, intertextuality etc
-Postmodern theory. Try to apply them to the film.
-Write a couple of paragraphs about the postmodern aspects in the film, as you understand them. Your research should help with this.

Baudrillard - Hyperreality & simulacra and simulation

Hyperreality.
lets take the coke advert...

As you can see from this advert you get the impression that this bottle of 'ice-cold coke' has been especially made for the man who put the coin into the machine. But as we know there isnt a little fantacy world behind the coke machine that is what we are made to believe. As we know coke is made in a factory and it hasnt been made in the way is shown; infact its just carbonated water made to look like somthing its not. this advert is a hypereality of the bottle of coke.

Simulacra and simulation.

Fiske- Genre. Postmodernism.

Fiske said that we see and make sence of the world not through our own experiences but through how media portrays the world. This can be linked to kick-ass. We understand kick-ass as a film and why it works as a film is because the peopple who have watched it have hopefully watched other superhero/action films to help them understand it. For example at the begining you see this clip of a person jumping off the top of a bulding but because of the context of the film he doesnt fly he just falls to the ground and smacks into a car. This clip has been made funny because in 'Batman' and action/superhero film you hopefully have seen beforehand so you understannd that in a superhero film they jump of the top of buildings to show there power of flying.

Postmodernism.

Theoretical background to Postmodernism

List of things i need to do.

-Fiske
-derrida
-Bricolage
-simulacra and simulation
-baudrillard (hyperreality)
-pastiche (imitate nice) homage (nice) parody (not nice)
-Leotard (grand and samll narative)
-plurasism and relitivism.

Need to create a post on each of these to consolidate my learning.

Postmodernism, Derrida

"The centre is not the centre. The concept of a centred structure is...contradictorily coherent. And as always, coherence in contradiction expresses the force of desire" Derrida