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2011 In late 1920s Hollywood, George Valentin is the world’s biggest silent movie star. His dashing good looks, wit and screen presence ensure his �lms are huge hits. However, his screen persona masks The Artist OSS 117of French spy movies that parodied James Bond �lms. The protagonist of OSS 117 The Artist’s Jean Dujardin) was suave and overly con�dent (much like Austin Powers) yet inept and accident-prone (like Inspector Clouseau). Hazanavicius’ subversion of genre codes and The Artist. An audience’s knowledge of these codes and conventions is essential for the subversion to work. Vampires Suckconsiderate than a parody. While a parody of a horror (like ) won’t be scary, a ) will be scary. It embraces, imitates and satirises codes and conventions rather than ridiculing them. A pastiche takes the codes and conventions of a genre and revises, updates or comments on them. A pastiche might be ironic and acknowledge its own genre conventions in a highly stylised way. The horror �lm characters discuss the ‘rules’ of the horror genre.Let us look at the difference. Remember sometimes parody and pastiche can overlap. zooms and music. father’s death Upon A Time In The West.A cowboy Count Basie’s �lm’s score. The window. Racist (dir Wes Craven)A girl answers Wes Craven, Freddy Krueger. A movie geek Wayans)A girl escaping into a ‘wasted’ A victim is OSS 117 to this table. You may need to watch the trailer.The Artist is a parody, or a pastiche? When Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez wanted to make a homage to the low budget US was a �lm that clearly had a large budget. After all...The Artistin the 1920s. Also, whilst re�ecting on the transition of cinema from silent cinema, the �lm raises The Artistthe ‘silent’ era?was made in 2011?special effects The Artist The Artist The Artist’The King’s Speech The ArtistThe Adventures of TintinMy Week With Marilyn?Was The Artist and colour and black and white to show different points of view, or just to unsettle the viewer. rather than colour. Watch sequences from Oliver Stone’s �lms U-Turnand why is black and white used and what effect does it have?The action packed, blood-soaked ending of Tarantino’s Kill Bill Vol. 1made in colour. Using Internet research, �nd out what �nancial, aesthetic or thematic reasons the Young Frankenstein Schindler’s ListA fantastic example to look up is Todd Field’s (2002), which imitates the Technicolor Douglas Sirk affairs and homosexuality.Written by Gareth C. Evans