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Pulp fiction

This Film being a postmodernism film, Challenges the conventional relations between audience and text, I also found that Buffy the vampire slayer also does this. Whilst both the film and TV series appear to have a genre, it is also mixed with other genres making it not so easy to categorize.
With pulp fiction being a film where the “chapters” are mixed about and played in a different order within the film to when they actually happened.  In Buffy, there are episodes however I found that not all of them link together one after another, having references throughout the series.  When you watch either Pulp fiction or Buffy, you can be drawn in and feel as its reality or you know it’s a film/TV series and don’t gain the feeling for a specific character.

Modernism films have a deep story and follow this storyline rather than work on the visual side of the film. However, postmodernism films focus on the visual side, not focusing on the story, if there really is one.  This example is greatly shown in the film Transformer, with loads of action and explosions creating amazing visuals and not showing what the story is. Although Buffy the Vampire slayer is a post modernism TV series, some episode side track from being postmodernism and focus on a little bit of a storyline, and the characters. Pulp fiction doesn’t really tell a story, but the way in which the film is presented is all over the place. This then makes the viewer have to put the film in the right order once seeing the whole film.

Both Buffy the vampire slayer and pulp fiction relate to a previous section of the past, in pulp fiction it would be the retro dinner and the twist competition, going to the 1950s and buffy going to the medieval times, where vampire, witches and monsters were all thought to have been around.

Hot Fuzz

I will be discussing whether the film “Hot Fuzz” could be categorized as a post-modern film. I will talk about the intertextuality, conventional vs. postmodern films, and the way in which is challenges the text to audience relationship.

From watching this film and looking at the references within the film, I found there are a lot more then I first thought. The first one I find is the one to the films, “3 colours of red/yellow/blue” films made in Italy directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski in the 1990s. The 3 colour films are high culture films, where as Hot Fuzz and the other film in the 3 Cornetto trilogy, Shaun of the Dead, are low culture films. As this film if part of a trilogy, there are many references to the first film, Shaun of the Dead, such as “Never taken a short cut before?”  And “Do you want anything from the shop?” Both of these quotes have been repeated in the films a number of times. Other films like bad boys 2, and the tv show He man, With “by the power of Grayskull” being repeated by both Sergeant Angel and Danny in Hot Fuzz.

Some people say this film is postmodern, although it does have elements of being a convention film, having the film in order, unlike pulp fiction. It may be conventional as it has a story, a police officer going from the big city full of crime to a small village, where crime is not as high. Genre could challenge whether Hot Fuzz is postmodern, for the reason as it is unclear to exactly what genre the film is. Throughout it’s a mixture of films from comedy to action and police and crime, this then links to the music used within Hot Fuzz, using Fire by The crazy world of Arthur Brown and Blockbuster by The Sweet; giving this film a more postmodern look, having a very mixed soundtrack.