Todays joyful lecture was on the term Intertextuality and how its used in film and tv. As i already knew about the term and how its used, i found this lecture to be just repeating on what i had already learnt previously. To start we was told what the word intertextuality stands for; how things link together, or my understanding, a reference to text that is held within another text. In the lecture we looked at a clip from Pulp fiction, where John Travolta is dancing with Uma Thermon, i found this particular clip to be quite clever on Tarantino's behalf, as by including this it refered to the previous films that John Travolta has appeared in. These being Saturday Night Fever and Grease, this link comes in to how he dances within all these films. It also shows the audience how he has grown as an actor over the years as you instantly think of these films when you see the clip. We was also shown an image of a model called 'rock drill', after this was shown the discussion came about on how it links in with the film Alien and the similarities between the two. These being shown through the shapes involved and the visible rib cage on both, it makes you wonder whether Giger had seen this image before doing the designs.
Whilst in the lecture i thought of the refernces with the two films, Avatar and Pocahontas. Avatar holds many references to Pocahontas in the way that they are trying to protect their land, a love interest from the opposing side and the sacred tree. These are just a few of the intertextualities that are held within Avatar.
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