Rec. notes

• little animation to intro 
• looks like a home video 
• show women in the fire station 
• got call in the middle of the basketball game 
• people keep following to see the person 
• virus origination: the girl 
• \building manager gets attacked first 
• uses rewind to show killing the woman twice 
• girl has a fever 
• bionuclear ( unspecific) 
• don't try to leave the building 
• dont so deep into symptoms ( hysteria) 
• interviews each person 
• resident blames chinesee, Jappanesee etc. 
• daughter has tonsilitis 
• what are the doing here 
• has to hide to see patients 
• oemonic looking 
• sound effects with hammer hit 
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Quarintine notes

• animations when into to companies 
• origin: doomsday cult breaking into a chemical weapons lab 
• woman reporter shadows firefighters 
• camera seems traditional but handheld shows fireman in the locker room and half naked 
• woman calls in (ms espinosa) - attacks firefighters and bites them ( zombie like ) 
• people panic when they are trapped in appartments 
• firefighters want to turn off the camera but reporter refuses 
• communication is cut off 
• has rabies symptoms 
• call in CDC 
• When the CDC comes in  they get a brain sample 
• man wakes up and attacks 
• rabies comes from an infected dog and transmits through saliva 
• symptoms: hyperagression and zombie like 
• daughter (brianna) starts with bronchitis then gets rabies 
• highly emotional 
• shoot people when they try to escape 
• loud sound when something happens 
• sound effects when zombies are hit 
• everyone dies in the end and reporter gets dragged away 
• night vision 

TVF notes

• product worth more 
• amusement park ride 
• more camera moving 
• no stasis 
• designed 
• looks more beautiful 
• realism 
• aesthetic experience ( painting in a museum ) 
• complexity of acting 
• homage 

Infernal Affairs and The Departed

• subjectivity - implies you create the world ..., Irrational 
• objectivity implies the world is created for you in it (Nationalism or realism) 
• Violence - (pathetic grizzly and horrifying) Irony ... order enlightenment 
• Black and white, good and bad... 
• objectivity - gravitas seriousness, heaviness, woriness, a movies acadamy award 
• objectivity: Importance of character 
• character driven material - realism, naturalism not stylized melodrama 
• ( homosexual ... sexual abuse implications... importance) 
• This is a real world- who am I , in it. The individual is empowered 
• subjectivity - the universe destiny - the karmic wheel is way more empowered than you puny human ego 
• This is a real world - who am I in it. The individual empowered self 
• Christian vs Confucian or Buddhist 
• what do we learn about America?  

Horses of God

• setting: shanty town of sidi moumen casablanca 
• kids play soccer in the beggining and one kids brother beats another kid with a chain 
• global: shows city 
• mother is getting less hours so the kids look in the trash for valuables 
• older brother: hamid 
• younger brother:yachine 
• kids are smoking at a wedding and drinking 
• hamid fucks another guy in the ass ( the one friend he tells yachine to stay away from) (nabil) 
• global - King Hassan II dies and muhammad VI takes over 
• Hamid throws a rock at the police and later gets arrested in his home 
• yaccine sells oranges 
• nabil goes away for work 
• yacchine gets a job as a mechanic from his friend and is good 
• shows september 11 attacks 
• hamid comes back in 2001 
• went to jail in 1997 
• hamid comes back from jail and becomes religious 
• yacchine kills the mechanic owner after he tries to rape his friend (Nabil) 
• Hamid tries to convert them to islam 
• The islamic church turns them to terrorists and call them to help their brothers ( challenges them by saying they are doing nothing to help their brothers) 
• Islam preacher tells them to not see their families and their brothers will take care of them 
• Saddam Hussein takes over after Muhammad VI 
• bomb a Jewish community center in casablanca 
• "Let us combat corruption and depravity in this country" 

Amorres Perros

• Octavio's dog kills the thugs dog 
• homeless guy kills rich guy ( business man) 
• girl has baby 
• octavio loves girl 
• girl leaves with octavios brother 
• movie starts with car chase the back tracks 
• model gets hurt in car accident 
• richie ( their dog goes under the floor) 
• valerie (model) opens the floor boards to find richie (dog) 
• valerie (model) leg gets amputated 
• gets richie (dog) out of the floor boards 
• ramiro ( octavios brother ) dies 
• octavios dog kills all homeless guys dogs 

Psycho

• kuleschev effect - showing a picture to relay an emotion 
• ways of interpreting the film psycho 
• construction of cinematic world 
• the meaning of the point: theft is wrong 
• convert symbolic implicit meaning: un married sexuality lead to her death
• Repressed: or symptotic meaning 
• men are predatory towards certain females but become domesticated by the family 
• carry within us for potential evil  

final paper world cinema 225 oral presentation of topic Thurs May 26, paper due June 2
4-5 pages in length
compare a foreign film to its American remake. Or vice versa, compare an American fulm to its foreign remake
What changes were made in the plot, character, and cinematic style of the film? What do these changes tell us about America or Hollywood films, or how we would like to see ourselves her in America, or finally how Hollywood would like to portray America? This is somewhat a political question and somehat a cultural question and somewhat an aesthetic question. Thus you can supplement your answer with any secondary source that might inform us about political, social, cultural or artistic identity. \
Perhaps an approach is the to inventory of questions from Shago Miura
What differences in gender roles exist? Are there any differences in male-female relationships generally? What differences in social values are able to be inferred from the films? What differences in physical characteristics (i.e., clothing, make-up) are noticeable as social noms? Are there differences in communication modes or styles? Do the actors perform or express themselves differently between the original and the remake? Are there general differences in cinematic style (i.e., cinematography, editing, and sound) that speaks to issues of cultural differences?
But you should go further than this inventory. You should really be interpreting at a level 4 now, probing the unintended or unconscious meaning of the changes made by the American filmmaker. What secret did he let out about how we see ourselves. It could be a happy secret is a dirty little secret. It could be a critique of America or it could be a celebration of its ascendancy to world domination!
 You should give enough of a plot synopsis so that the reader can make sense of the paper without having seen the films.
You should analyze one sequence in detail using cinematic terms
You should talk about at least three other scenes where the changes and the cinema reveal some interesting information about the American self-image
You should give three direct quotes from the films
Again, you should refer to one outside secondary source and properly cite it
You may use any of the films we have seen in class or other films of your own choosing. If you us the films from class you must come up with some original interpretations
The final grade will be based on how well you exhibit that you have mastered the skill mentioned in the title of this course: Interpreting World Cinema. Good Luck.