Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Intertexuality

Intertexuality is when the director in a film makes a direct reference to another film, the reason for the use of intertexualilty differs from film to film, it may be making us feel for the character in shot, or creates a sense of what the film is referring to, like “Kill Bill vol 2” at 4.22 and 6.29 during the clip it refers to the sound of trumpet in “The Good, The Bad, The Ugly” at 4.22. Tarantino uses the sound of the trumpets in Kill Bill to give the same effect of what is happening in The Good, The Bad, The Ugly. The effect on the audience makes us see Bud as the ugly, The Bride as the good, and Bill as the bad, because Tarantino makes us see the Bride as Blondie (The good) by giving her the characteristics and power as Blondie.
When the Bride is buried in a coffin, we know she will get out because Tarantino creates the sense that the Bride is Blondie, who is able to escape from any situation.
Also Bud portrays Ugly in Kill Bill, and at the end of the film in The Good, The Bad , The Ugly, Ugly gets the short straw, and ends up being close to death, from this we can decipher that Bud will come to a bad ending as well.
Also it creates a sense of a shoot-out, as this is what happens in The Good.., revealing that is could soon be the ending for Bud, as Ugly comes off worse that Blondie. Not only that but the sense of isolation is a thriller convention and also occurs in both films, the shootout in The Good…, takes place in an isolated area, in the middle of the country, and in Kill Bill takes place in a dark, gloomy area, which is a thriller convention, the same as the isolated location in The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.






The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Finale


Kill Bill- fight between Bud and the Bride

1 comment:

  1. Your post indicates that you understand Tarantino's purpose when he explicitly uses the inter textual reference to Morricone's sound track in Kill Bill 2! The Bride's cowboy boots and the use of the graveyard are also strong intertextual references to Sergio Leone's classic shootout in The Good the Bad and the Ugly.

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