Jelena Breedlove

&

Bjac Aquisto

NIGHT WATCH

• Name of the movie – Night Watch

• Director – Timur Bekmambetov

• Country – Russia

• 2004

• Based on the book by Sergey Lukyaneko

NIGHT WATCH НОЧНОЙ ДОЗОР

• Postmodern form

• Pastiche

• Incorporating the elements of previous genres, creating a new narrative voice

• Metafiction

• Writing about writing

• Jumps in time

• Maintaining emotional distance as a narrator

• Magical realism

• Introducing fantastic into normal life

• Magical characters

• Parallel worlds

• Intertextuality

• Acknowledgment of previous literary work

• Irony, Referential

• Deferring in expectation

POSTMODERNISM

• Subtitles

• Play scene (11:00)

• Conveys other meaning

• Lack of opening credits

• Studio required minimal credits

• Use of specific methods and camera shots types of special effects

Play (38:22, 23:20)

POSTMODERN FORM

• Different genre

• Thriller

• Abortion as a murder

• Murder of a vampire

• Horror

• Vampires

• Love Story

• Anton’s wife leaves him

• He loves her

• He finds their son at the end

• Legend

• Old Byzantine legend – virgin curse

• Legend of the battle

• Russian Hollywood style

• First Russian movie that was done in Hollywood style

• First large budget film after the colapse of USSR (4.26 mil)

• No previous fantasy genre

• Needed to stay close to reality to

• Make believable to audience

PASTICHE (PREVIOUS GENRES, MIXING)

• Time

• First scene starts few thousand years ago

• 12 years ago

• Present

• Continuance of last battle

• Play first (0:43) and last battle(1:41:26)

• English speaking narrator

• Maintaining emotional distance as narrator

METAFICTION(JUMPS IN TIME, DISTANT NARRATOR)

• Various Characters

• Vampires

• Dark ones

• Others

• Light ones

• Shape shifters

• Woman lion

• Gods

• Gasser and Zavalon

• Others under the spell

• Girl owl

• Virgin

• Witch

• Old woman

• Curse

• Damned virgin

• Everything dies

• Chaos

• Good and Evil imbalance

• Continuance of the battle

• Gloom

• Vampires can hide

• Others can go there

• Play the scene with mirror

• Play scene ( 30:22)

MAGICAL REALISM(FANTASY IN REAL LIFE)

• Baba Yaga

• Russian fairy tales

• Eats children

• Performs black magic magic to kill an unborn child

INTERTEXTUALITY(REFERRING TO PREVIOUS LITERARY WORK)

• Leading a horse with a carrot and a stick

INTERTEXTUALITY

• Refers to USSR and time after the fall

• Pop star – vampire

• 1990s criminal – vampire

• Light Others – workers

• Electricity/ socialist realism

IRONY, REFERENTIAL

INTERTEXTUALITY

• Light and Dark twist

• In order to kill a Vampire, Other has to drink blood

• Nightwatch and Daywatch

• Play the last scene (1:43:46)

• Friend on opposite sides

• Vampire gives …. His mother clothes

• Vampire helps him get blood

DEFERRING IN EXPECTATION