Life of Pi and Metropolis

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Life of Pi and Metropolis Film Analysis: Life of Pi and Metropolis DR BRUCE ISAACS | UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY

Life of Pi and Metropolis Film Analysis: Life of Pi and Metropolis DR BRUCE ISAACS | UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Theatrical mise en scene – excessive dramatizing as a departure from realism

Exaggerated gesture; high contrast lighting: The German Expressionist aesthetic in Metropolis (1927)

Life of Pi and Metropolis Film Analysis: Life of Pi and Metropolis DR BRUCE ISAACS | UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY A contemporary Hollywood special effects film: Life of Pi (2012)

Life of Pi and Metropolis Film Analysis: Life of Pi and Metropolis DR BRUCE ISAACS | UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY A contemporary Hollywood special effects film: Life of Pi (2012)

Life of Pi and Metropolis Film Analysis: Life of Pi and Metropolis DR BRUCE ISAACS | UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Confronting death: Ang Lee’s realist thematic within an artificial image field Life of Pi (2012)

Erich Heckel, ‘Landscape Near Dresden’ (1910)

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Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927): The last German Expressionist film Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927): The last German Expressionist film. The film’s sets are a marvel of visual effects and design. Here, contrived through drawings and models, we see the dystopian city rendered in a depth of field, and on an enormous scale. Note the ‘lighting’ in the background of the shot, which strategically draws our attention to the looming structure.

German Expressionist style: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Robert Weine, 1920): artificiality and graphism

German Expressionist style: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Robert Weine, 1920): a ‘graphic’ effect – the cinematic image as ‘drawn’

German Expressionist style: Nosferatu (F. W German Expressionist style: Nosferatu (F. W. Murnau, 1925): lighting, contrast, and distortion

Metropolis: The Dystopian City in German Expressionism

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