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SUMMARY:Film: Action Movies / Violence / Editing
PRIORITY:5
DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Film: Action Movies / Violence / Editing\n
Text: "As 
 filmmakers top one another\, and as the viewer's tolerance increases\, fil
 mmakers try to approximate physical sensation with technique that in the d
 igital age\, has become increasingly expressionistic.  This technique may 
 seem to make the action more intense\, but really\, it only widens the gul
 f between seeing an act depicted and sensing it on one's actual flesh."\n

 -Lichtenfeld\, 277\n
Date: 09/13/07\n
ID: 9377
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SUMMARY:Sexuality / Spirituality / Control
PRIORITY:5
DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Sexuality / Spirituality / Control\n
Text: Eric Licht
 enfeld quotes this intriguing passage from Susan Sontag (on Leni Riefensta
 hl):\n
\n
"[T]he fascist ideal ... is to transform sexual energy into a 's
 piritual' force\, for the benefit of the community."\n
Date: 09/12/07\n
ID
 : 9307
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SUMMARY:Film / Industrial Age / Architecture / Myth: Orpheus
PRIORITY:5
DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Film / Industrial Age / Architecture / Myth: Orpheus\
 n
Text: Jackson DeGovia (production designer on Red Dawn\, Die Hard\, and 
 Speed):\n
"Designers like industrial settings because they're massive\, th
 ey're masculine\, and they light well.  Switch engines and steel presses\;
  they're the ultimate toys for boys.  [Industrial settings] have lots of p
 laces to hide\, lots of levels.  You can be very free there."\n
\n
Also: "
 The industrial interior is not about human beings.  These are the waste pr
 oducts of society.  The [industrial setting] has the mystique of the lair\
 , of abandonment.  It is Orpheus-into-the-underworld\, where evil comes fr
 om."\n
Date: 08/31/07\n
ID: 8613
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SUMMARY:Film: Action Movies / Body / Spirituality / Technology / Violence /
  To Read
PRIORITY:5
DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Film: Action Movies / Body / Spirituality / Technolog
 y / Violence / To Read\n
Text: Rikke Schubart identifies two themes in act
 ion films -- 'passion' and 'acceleration'\n
\n
the 'passion' axis draws on
  Rene Girard's "sacrifice plot\," "in which societies sacrifice scapegoats
  to avoid social crises" (Lichtenfeld's summary)\n
\n
"a hero is marginali
 zed\, chosen to handle a crisis\, sacrificed\, and finally\, resurrected" 
 (30)\n
\n
the 'acceleration' axis contains things like "kinetic energy ...
  explosions\, pure speed\, the hard body\, invulnerability\, invincibility
 \, impenetrability"\n
\n
Lichtenfeld expands this to include "the destruct
 ion visited upon cars\, buildings\, and other such objects"\n
\n
Rikke Sch
 ubart regards The Terminator as a film in which the theme of "acceleration
 " separates from its traditional pair ("passion"): "It tore itself away an
 d became a theme in its own right."\n
\n
the Schubart article appears in R
 outledge's Violence and American Cinema (2001)\n
Date: 08/24/07\n
ID: 8614
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SUMMARY:Film: Action Movies / Timeline
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DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Film: Action Movies / Timeline\n
Text: 1967\n
Bonnie 
 and Clyde\n
a "New Hollywood" milestone\n
\n
featuring "staccato editing\,
  slow motion\, overbearing sound\, and gore"\n
\n
"[It] helped end the Pro
 duction Code and ushered in the less restrictive Motion Picture Associatio
 n of America"\n
\n
see also 1971's Billy Jack\, Shaft\, and The French Con
 nection\n
and (especially) Dirty Harry\, "the action film's first true arc
 hetype"\n
Date: 08/24/07\n
ID: 8615
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SUMMARY:Film / Genre / To Read
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DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Film / Genre / To Read\n
Text: Todd Berliner's "genre
 -breakers" and "genre-benders"\n
\n
Lichtenfeld's summary: "genre-breakers
  ... use the [genre] conventions to attack the genre ideologically" and ge
 nre-benders "distend their genres just enough to mislead audiences who hav
 e been prepared for a familiar\, generically proscribed outcome"\n
\n
see 
 Berliner's "Genre Film as Booby Trap" in Cinema Journal 40\, no. 3 (2001)\
 n
Date: 08/24/07\n
ID: 8616
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SUMMARY:Film: Action Movies / Genre
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Text: the action film "
 comprises different trends"\; it is "a synthesis of other genres" (Lichten
 feld)\n
\n
(the Western\, the noir\, the police procedural\, combat film\,
  science fiction)\n
\n
"It is ... an extrapolation of the most essential n
 arrative elements from *all* of the pre-existing action-oriented genres"\n
 
(Richard Slotkin\, in Foreword)\n
Date: 08/24/07\n
ID: 8617
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SUMMARY:Film: Action Movies / Crime / Power / Violence
PRIORITY:5
DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Film: Action Movies / Crime / Power / Violence\n
Text
 : Eric Lichtenfeld's distinction between the action film and the police pr
 ocedural:\n
"In the action film\, investigative procedure is second to the
  genre's real concern: not the investigation of crime\, but rather the obl
 iteration of criminals."\n
Date: 08/24/07\n
ID: 8618
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SUMMARY:Film: Action Movie
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Text: Joel Silver 's "whammy the
 ory" = one major sequence per reel\n
Date: 08/24/07\n
ID: 8619
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SUMMARY:Film: Action Movies / Ethics / Narrative
PRIORITY:5
DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Film: Action Movies / Ethics / Narrative\n
Text: Lich
 tenfeld: "We can find an action film's conscience\, or lack thereof\, in h
 ow it treats [its] noncombatants\, because here is how the filmmakers choo
 se to present life and death as an abstract or pure value -- that is\, as 
 a value uncomplicated by considerations of story."\n
Date: 09/13/07\n
ID: 
 9459
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Text: Die Hard clones or progen
 y--\n
\n
Toy Soldiers\, The Taking of Beverly Hills\, Passenger 57\, Under
  Siege and Under Siege 2\, Speed and Speed 2\, Cliffhanger\, Sudden Death\
 , The Rock\, Executive Decision\, Con Air\, Air Force One\n
Date: 09/12/07
 \n
ID: 9319
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SUMMARY:Film: Action Movies / To See / To Do
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DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Film: Action Movies / To See / To Do\n
Text: the "hom
 e invasion" film\n
John Berry's He Ran All the Way (1951)\n
William Wyler'
 s The Desperate Hours (1955)\n
\n
influences on John Carpenter's Assault o
 n Precinct 13?\n
\n
see also: Panic Room?  Straw Dogs?  Funny Games?  The 
 new "Them"?  You've got half the makings of a Facets film class here\n
Dat
 e: 08/24/07\n
ID: 8620
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SUMMARY:Film / Narrative / Media / Corporations / Sport
PRIORITY:5
DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Film / Narrative / Media / Corporations / Sport\n
Tex
 t: cross-media / cross-platform promotions re Van Helsing:\n
\n
-- Univers
 al launches "The Monster Legacy Collection" on DVD and a "Monster Legacy" 
 clothing line [!]\n
--monster-related attractions at Universal Studios Hol
 lywood\n
--monster-related attractions at Madame Toussaud's wax museum\n
-
 -a Van Helsing video game\n
--a straight-to-DVD animated prequel\n
--promo
 tional partnerships with Carl's Jr.\, Toys R Us\, and the American Red Cro
 ss [!]\n
--promotional partnerships with TNT (a division of Time-Warner\, 
 and associated with the NBA [!] -- attempting to unify "the theme of the m
 ovie with the themes of our playoff coverage\," according to Turner Entert
 ainment drone Chris Eames)\n
\n
Not sure how much of this constitutes "sto
 rytelling" in any meaningful sense\n
Date: 09/13/07\n
ID: 9400
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SUMMARY:Film: Action Movies / Film: Westerns
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Text: Lichtenf
 eld compares Die Hard against High Noon-- not just in the emphasis on the 
 final showdown\, but also because "McTiernan [often] pushes McClane to the
  margins of the frame -- usually the left margin\, as Fred Zinneman had fr
 amed Gary Cooper in High Noon ... McClane does not control the frame\; it 
 controls him." (164)\n
Date: 09/12/07\n
ID: 9331
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SUMMARY:Film: Action Movies / Virus / Other
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Text: Lichtenfe
 ld posits that the outfits in action-movie cinema "[insulate] their wearer
 s from all that is pathological in a world obsessed with purity."\n
\n
Cob
 ra\, Commando\, Blade\n
Date: 09/13/07\n
ID: 9412
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SUMMARY:Film: Action Film / Narrative
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Text: Larry Wachowski
 :\n
"American filmmakers have gotten to the point where they just create t
 heir fights in the editing room.  Those types of sequences are just design
 ed for a visceral\, flash-cut impact.  Hong Kong action directors actually
  bring narrative arcs into the fights\, and tell a little story within the
  fighting."\n
Date: 09/12/07\n
ID: 9343
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SUMMARY:Film: Action Movies / Ritual / Body / Technology
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Te
 xt: Eric Lichtenfeld comments upon the "practically ceremonial" montages i
 n Rambo\, Cobra\, and Commando\n
\n
"What is ritualized is the body ... th
 e body and weapons ... or weapons and actual rituals"\n
\n
"The montage is
  in itself a ritual"\n
Date: 09/01/07\n
ID: 8649
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SUMMARY:Film: Action Films
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DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Film: Action Films\n
Text: villains\, in the action f
 ilm\, are the figures that "take pleasure in transgression" (Lichtenfeld\,
  85)\n
\n
see Commando's Matrix character\, or Dirty Harry's Scorpio\, or 
 many others\n
Date: 09/01/07\n
ID: 8650
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Text: Lethal Weapon (and 48 Hrs
 ) are partaking in the "mismatched buddy tradition that dates back to earl
 y sound comedies"\n
\n
"In action movie partnerships\, a hero will be assi
 gned his opposite: if one is older or reserved\, the other is young or bra
 se (the Lethal Weapon series\, the two Stakeout films\, Tango & Cash\, The
  Rookie\, Bad Boys\, The Rock)\; if one is a battle-hardened cop\, the oth
 er is a starry-eyed tagalong (The Hard Way\, Last Action Hero\, Showtime)\
 ; if one is black\, the other is white (Magnum Force\, the Lethal Weapons\
 , Off Limits\, The Last Boy Scout\, Die Hard with a Vengeance\, the two 48
  Hrs. films\, the 1986 Running Scared)\; if one is American\, the other is
  Chinese (the Rush Hour films) or a Soviet (Red Heat)\; if one is human\, 
 the other is a machine (the Robocop series)\, an extra-terrestria (Alien N
 ation)\, or the undead (Dead Heat)."\n
Date: 09/01/07\n
ID: 8651
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SUMMARY:Film: Action Movies / Violence
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DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Film: Action Movies / Violence\n
Text: the action fil
 m's most basic tropes\, according to Lichtenfeld:\n
\n
"sadism\, masochism
 \, martyrdom\, vigilantism\, vengeance\, violent salvation\, rescuing inno
 cents\, and the clash of the subhuman and the superhuman"\n
\n
these are d
 istilled in Sin City\n
Date: 09/13/07\n
ID: 9424
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SUMMARY:Film: Action Movies / War / Other
PRIORITY:5
DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Film: Action Movies / War / Other\n
Text: Many action
  movies (Rambo and Predator\, most notably) appropriate the successful ski
 lls of the Viet Cong and attribute them to "American" heroes\n
\n
scholars
  like Michael Comber and Michael o'Brien hace noted that "Rambo resembles 
 the Viet Cong in both his fighting strategies and in his opposition to Ame
 rican authority"\n
Date: 09/12/07\n
ID: 9295
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SUMMARY:Boredom / Attention
PRIORITY:5
DESCRIPTION:Keywords: Boredom / Attention\n
Text: Anthony Lane\, on Con Air
 :\n
\n
"There is nothing so boring in life\, let alone in cinema\, as the 
 boredom of being excited all the time."\n
Date: 09/13/07\n
ID: 9436
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