auteur/narrative/genre

Question 1

KAR-WAI: auteur theory

Answer 1

• obsession with themes such as loneliness, isolation and the impact of western culture
• narrative broken into episodes
• likes to film through things: rain, smoke, windows
• use of high angle shots
• absense of establishing shots
• reference to the west
• central, ‘strong’ female character

Question 2

COLLABERATION: actor

Answer 2

• Tony Leung is a famous actor in Asia
• famous for playing leading men, action heroes etc
• he brings gravity to the role - the film is very respectful towards him at the end

Question 3

GENRE: followed

Answer 3

Kung Fu conventions:
- competing Kung Fu schools
- fights between characters
- revenge theme

Question 4

GENRE: broken

Answer 4

• Kung Fu with little fighting - fighting is obscured
• romance film with no romance
• historical film yet Gong Er is a fictional character

Question 5

NARRATIVE: followed

Answer 5

• closed narrative
• more closely follows equilibrium and new equilibrium (Todorov)
• clearer character types (Propp)
• clear binary opposites (Levi-Strauss)

Question 6

NARRATIVE: broken

Answer 6

unusual change in perspective/narrator (Gong Er)