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

2. 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

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

4. 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)

5. 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)

6. 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)

7. Erich Heckel, ‘Landscape Near Dresden’ (1910)

8. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: ‘Street Scene’, 1913.

9. 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.

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

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

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

13. Metropolis: The Dystopian City in German Expressionism

14. Expressionist Mise en Scene in Blade Runner (1982): Angularity, the dominance of line over space, lighting contrast, diminution of bodies, etc.

15. The Matrix (The Wachowskis, 1999): Expressionist mise en scène: distortion, elongation, angularity, colour tinting, etc.

16. Celluloid: The basis of film

17. Life of Pi Featurette

18. A digital/real synthesis: the digital image as cinematic magic realism
Life of Pi (2012)

19. Flying Fishes – Digitally composition movement and form

20. Richard Parker in close-up: a digital fabrication Life of Pi (2012)

21. The body: a digital creative imagining. Life of Pi (2012)

22. The body: a digital creative imagining. Life of Pi (2012)

23. An imaginary world: Ang Lee’s magic realism Life of Pi (2012)