Assignment 2

Sorry, I realized that I posted the homework for this blog on a blog for another class.

1."Independent" could mean exploitation aimed at a younger market, free of a studio budget, and avant-garde such as Stan Brakhage which was completely independent of finance and weren't meant for regular distribution. In the 1980s and 1990s, the video store opened, so more studios were trying to make more "independent" films because there was now a much wider market, so studios used films with non-stars such as Dirty Dancing and Nightmare on Elm Street to produce cheap movies.

2. There was a new market from cable and video rentals that high-end studios weren't exploiting yet, and various studios such as New Line, New World, and Goldwyn took advantage of this time. Hillier describes a "continuum" of independent films which make "very different products with very different origins and aspirations".

3. Soderbergh's Sex, Lies, and Videotape and Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction "dismantled" the structure of independent distribution and production in the 1980s, and the term "major independent" was created. Miramax became associated with Disney for independent production.

4. Miramax was a division of Disney, and they produced Pulp Fiction which cost a lot of money because of the star cast, and was not really independent, at all, and this film opened up the door for them to distribute larger films as independents until "independent became dependent", because the studios liked having independents so they spent more money on them and had more control over them.

5. In 2001, he said that Van Sant was incorporating himself into the mainstream with Good Will Hunting and Psycho, but in 2003 he re-evaluated his assessment because he says that with Elephant and Gerry, he has returned to his American independent roots because they are slightly experimental in nature and have an independent nature.Kristin Thompson, “Modern Classicism”

6. "Post-classical" film argues that old Hollywood was on the decline by the early 1960s, and was replaced by "youthquake" films which have kept their style in the present, a style which incorporates auteurs, high violence and sexual content, and a star-studded cast and special effects to drive the plot line, rather than story, but she believes that stories in current Hollywood follow the same narrative structure as old Hollywood. She uses Jaws and Star Wars to support her argument because though they do have stars and special effects, they have strong story lines that are driven with a fast pace, just like old, or classical Hollywood narratives.

7. An easy-to-follow chain of cause and effect, every action, character, and emotion is motivated and justified by another part of the film, consistent characters with consistent goals and desires, and a chain of questions.

8. The setup (initial situation is established), the complicating action(takes the action in a new direction), the development(the protagonist's struggle toward his or her goals), and the climax(action shifts toward the final resolution). They help her provide a more nuanced analysis of Terminator 2 because she balances out the imbalanced three-act structure set up by Syd Field, and she marks important events, such as the dialogue between John and The Terminator.

9. Attempt to break down the structure of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues according to Thompson's model.
Setup: Sissy is with doctor, and we see her hitchhiking.
Complicating Action: Sissy struggles with her virginity and need to stay on the move, ends up at the Ranch.
Development: Sissy falls in love with Jellybean, the cowgirls take hold of the farm.
Climax: Jellybean is shot.