Thursday, October 16, 2008

Things I Learned in Film Analysis Class

-Jack the Ripper in French is Jacques L'éventreur which means "Jack the disemboweler" and sounds more gruesome than ripper, since ripper doesn't overtly specify that he ripped prostitutes' stomaches open...

-A cinematic shot that shows a character's body from their head to mid-thigh is called a "plan américain" because it was used a lot in westerns to show cowboys' guns.

-The average Hollywood film has between 800-1,200 shots. The average French film has about 600 and the average action film can have up to 3,000.

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