week 6

Question 1

How many new academy members joined Oscars since 2016?

Answer 1

8000 (inlcuding Kendrick Lamar, J.K.Rowling)

Question 2

Director’s greatest 6 movies

Answer 2

1. A Space Odyssey
2. Dr. Strangelove
3. Barry Lyndon
4. Goodfellas
5. Taxi Driver
6. The Departed

Question 3

Oscar campaigns costs

Answer 3

100m-500m
72000 dollars for an ad in The Hollywood Reporter

Question 4

2 main film magazines

Answer 4

1. Variety
2. The Hollywood Reporter

Question 5

Issues with academy awards

Answer 5

1. best picture doesn’t = good or bad
2. 15% are women nominees
   a. female screen time in Oscars 37%, speaking 27% (screen time Hollywood movies 36%, speaking 35%)
   female lef films make 16% more than men

Question 6

Geena Davis

Answer 6

Inclusion quotation (GD-IQ) = automated analysis of the media content

Question 7

Mulan, US, 1998

Answer 7

Mushu, protector dragon spoke 50% more than Mulan

Question 8

Hollywood’s purpose

Answer 8

to make money

Question 9

2 extremes about Hollywood

Answer 9

1. Hollywood is the only cinema
2. only commercial cinema

Question 10

the American dream

Answer 10

coined by James Thrushlow Adams (Epic of America)
The Godfather, 1972, US -> I believe in America

Question 11

Reinhold Wagnleither “Hollywood is a text of power”

Answer 11

The American dream became big after WWII -> happiness by consumption

Question 12

Why is Hollywood so different? 3 factors

Answer 12

1. studio system -
2. the star system
3. genre

Question 13

the studio system

Answer 13

method of film production and distribution, dominated by a few large productions companies that compete against each other (Paramount, Walt Disney)

auteur theory - director is the major creative force

vertical integration - maximizing profit, all layers of industry conform to the same efficient

The Wizard of Oz, 1939 - organization of studies

Taylorism - each employee has own tasks - Charles Chaplin, Modern Times, 1936, US

Question 14

the star system

Answer 14

The star - private life is scripted to maximize adoration from audiences
The biograph girl - Florence Lawrence, Canada 1886-1938 = first Hollywood star

most influential = Mary Pickford (founded a studio with Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks)

Question 15

genre

Answer 15

category of film based on set of stylistic criteria
musicals - based on songs (Singing in the Rain, 1952, US)

Question 16

Classic Hollywood movie recap, 3 stages (during Golden age 20s-60)

Answer 16

1. presentation - explaining the story

America, America, Elia Kazam, US, 1963 - why he emigrated. dropping the Turkish hat in the water, and saying he’ll buy a new one in America

2. crisis -
   Gone with the Wind, Victor Fleming, US, 1939 (most profitable movie in Hollywood history) - Hattie Mcdaniel, the server won an Oscar, but could not attend
3. resolution
   Frank Capra, Prelude to War, US, 1942
   It’s a Wonderful life, US, 1946

Question 17

boxing movies

Answer 17

Rocky, 1976, US “no pain, no gain”
Rocky IV, 1985- symbolizes the cold war, the Russian boxer was on steroids
Creed - franchise

Raging Bull, Martin Scorsese, 1980, US
-the “other” America
-doesn’t praise boxing, but asks how much one is willing to do to become the greatest
- Jake the raging bull = trapped in the system, in the rink, like an animal
-nothing to glorify, because he is trapped without a choice, all he can do is fight

Question 18

road movies

Answer 18

about the journey, not the destination
Thelma and Louisa, 1991, US

Question 19

Dennis Hopper - drugs, rock, sex

Answer 19

made Hollywood popular again
Easy Rider, US, 1969
-Hollywood was losing popularity
-not a typical ending
-Up to the audience to decide if it is happy or not

Question 20

the new Hollywood

Answer 20

-movement/generation at the end of 70’s - authorial approach, directors were specialists (went to film schools)
Steven Spielberg, Jaws, 1975, US
- not costly but profitable -> blockbusters = feature films - very profitable, popular and financially successful

Question 21

Francis Ford Coppola

Answer 21

Revolutionized Hollywood
The Godfather, 1972, US (based on a book by Mario Puzo, 1969)
didn’t want to produce, but did it so he could make the movie Apocalypse Now, 1979 (19th best)
- non-diegetic sound -> orchestra while US army flies over Vietnam and kills civilians to surf at the beach -> shows the absurdity of war

• the “other America”
• not typical or happy ending

Question 22

The Irish community portrayed in Hollywood

Answer 22

Gangs of New York, Martin Scorsese, 2002, US
the american dream –> not for immigrants
-Goodfellas, 1990, US
-The Irishman

Question 23

Hollywood vs. TV –> new Hollywood

Answer 23

• the rise of African American filmmakers - Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, 1989, US
  blaxploitation - early-mid 70’s feature black actors in effort to appeal to black urban audiences to tap into a new profit source

Question 24

Women filmmakers

Answer 24

Sofia Cappola, The Virgin Suicides, 1999