ib film blockbuster presentation
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The blockbuster ERA 1970-1980
IBDP Film2010-2011
By: Joshua Schawelson
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1970’s - 1980’s
• Hollywood experiencing financial and artistic depression.
• Benchmark decade for development
• New era for film makers, creative high point in film industry.
• The films of the 1970’s were attempts to explore the mindsets of a society undergoing tremendous change through honest portrayals of real people
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What was brought from the 1960’s?
• Restriction of language, adult content, sexuality and violence had loosened up - widespread
• Hippie movement, Civil Rights movement, growth of rock & roll and use of drugs
• Hollywood New Wave or New Hollywood (Young generation took prominence , film school educated,reach the youth) emphasis on realism
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• Viewers and directors would not compromise with the production of mediocre films.
• Audiences from late 1960’s saw a glimpse of new possibilities, new story telling techniques and meaningful ‘artistic’ options.
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What is the Blockbuster Era?
• Block-bust-er (noun)
• A thing of great power or size
• an era of great commercial success
• Considered the greatest era of filmmaking (art form)
• Jaws regarded as first film of “blockbuster era”
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1970’s...
• 50’s & 60’s were recognized for wide-screen epics on silver screens....70’s was an age of creativity.
• Reflected questioning spirit and truth of the time.
• It brought vigor in adventures, complex realistic narratives with rich cinematography.
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Social Change• The aftermath of late 1960
social events called out for tremendous change.
• Audiences no longer wanted to partake in the false, homogenized and happy images.
• Realism and stories to relate to.
• Independent and innovative way of creating film.
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Culture in Film 1970’s
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C74Pae3PpMo - All that Jazz (Four Oscars) deemed culturally significant
• Counter-culture to be more free
• Pop culture - Saturday Night Fever & Grease
• Hippie culture / movement
• Rise of music (Jazz, composers,
• 1972 Munich Olympics
• Lava lamps
• Literature relating to Nixon and the watergate scandal were top sellers
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Influence of Historical Events
• Success films were based upon the harsh truths of wars or events.
• Events: Vietnam War, the Kent State Massacre, the Watergate scandal, President Nixon's fall, the Munich Olympics shoot-out................
• The Parallax View (1974), Patton (1970’s), M*A*S*H (1970).
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The Parallax View
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=324b8PIaMfA
• Richard Nixon conspiracy theory of assassination
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MASH
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UeYGS0UU6E
• subtext Vietnam War / set in Korean War
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Steven Speilberg
• Film producer, screenwriter & director.
• Jaws (1975)
• Founder of DreamWorks
• Worth 3 Billion
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Jaws• 1975 Relase - 159 days to shoot
• Based on Peter Benchleys novel
• Changed the movie industry - first summer blockbuster
• Led to summer screening for larger profits
• Regarded as one of the best movies of all time
• Three Mechanical sharks made for production (Bruce)
• Music by John Williams
• Shifted Hollywood away from jaded, sophisticated cinema towards more high-adventure thrills
• Shark was more terrifying when unseen - shown an hour into the movie
• Great White represented taxes and unemployment - Ronald Regan.
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Jaws
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucMLFO6TsFM
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George Lucas
• Producer, screenwriter & director
• Founder of Lucasfilm Ltd. -1971
• USC school of cinematic arts
• Star Wars + Indiana Jones Franchise
• Worth 3 Billion
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Star Wars (1977)• Ground breaking in the use
of special effects
• Unconventional Editing
• Sci/fi storytelling
• Motion control photography
• ‘Used Universe’
• Industrial Light and Magic - visual effects (revolutionary)
• John Williams
It can be used to facilitate special effects photography. The process can involve filming several elements using the same camera motion, and then compositing the elements into a single image.
editing together aerial dogfights from old war films, which enhanced the pacing of the scenes.
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Star Wars
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypNYVnjQPZI - behind the scenes
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gvqpFbRKtQ -trailer
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Developments• Cable television - the first pay/premium television channel, Home Box
Office (HBO), was founded in 1972; in 1975, became the first in the television industry to use satellites for regular transmission of programming
• The industry decided to move major film openings from mid-week to Fridays, in 1973
• Multi-plex theaters - the proliferation of multi-screen chain theaters in suburban areas, replacing big movie palaces, meant that more movies could be shown to smaller audiences
• Hollywood realized that it could increase its profits by advertising its new releases on television
• publicity/celebrity magazines -People Magazine - first published as a weekly magazine in March of 1974 , took over the role of celebrity watching and film promotion for the industry
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Notable Directors from 1970’s
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THE END
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Homework (not optional)
• Watch Episode IV Star Wars
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