'The Death of Uncool'- iPod Shuffle

• jewel- bombay bicycle club
• lucky- jason mraz
• this house is a circus- arctic monkeys
• drunk kid catholic- bright eyes
• i gave you all- mumford & sons
• unstookietitled- babyshambles
• what difference does it make- the smiths
• buck rogers- feeder
• forgotten fields- ellie goulding
• glitter in their eyes- patti smith
• pick you up (acoustic)- the dykeenies
• inbetween days- the cure
• no worries- mcfly
• feeling this- blink 182
• heart skipped a beat- the xx
• blindsided- bon iver
• expectations- belle & sebastian
• flash delirium- MGMT
• love no- the teenagers
• write you a song- plain white ts

David Fincher Filmography

Alien 3 (1992)

Seven (1995)

The Game (1997)

Fight Club (1999)

Panic Room (2002)

Zodiac (2007)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

The Social Network (2010)

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Fight Club Characters

Edward Norton plays an insomniac. He is weird and can only cry around people with 'real' problems. He is lost as a person and tries to find thing, e.g furniture, that will define him as a person. He sees things. We don't know much about him or his background or why he is the way he is. We know that he works in a boring office job and he strikes us on the surface as a normal, plain and average guy. Most importantly, we do not know his name.

Brad Pitt plays Tyler Durden and he strikes us as a bit of an off the wall character. He is laid back and spontaneous. He lives in a dump and is wreckless. Him and Edward's character form a brotherly bond and Tyler is seen as more the leader and Edward the sidekick.

Marla Singer, played by Helena Bonham Carter, is strange and scary. She is pale skinned and pretty unhygienic, relating her in a way to Tyler. She strikes us as quite 'up herself' but also intriguing and interesting. She is enigmatic and tough. She smokes and is pretty fearless.  



Fight Club Research



Fight Club (released November 12th 1999)

Directed by David Fincher

Staring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton & Helena Bonham Carter

Storyline: A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

Genres include mystery, thriller & drama

Post Modernism in Inglorious Basterds

The post-modern elements in Inglorious Basterds are typical of Quentin Tarantino and is part of what sets the film as a hybrid text as it fits into many genres.
The Music:
Although the film is set in WWII (1939-1945), it's soundtrack consists of modern music, unusual for a 'war film'. The film does open with music that you would expect in a film of the era but continues with rock music to add to the modern action elements in the movie. The modern music contrasts with the era but fits with the glorified action and violence in the film. The music is intertextual of modern day action films and the use of it can be seen as humorous. A David Bowie song is used to Shoshana's scene and the scene is portrayed as almost like a music video. Tarantino also uses a lot of western music in Inglorious Basterds. This relates to the shoot out scenes in westerns and again focuses's and glorifies the violence in the film. The intertextual elements of the western music mixes genres which is unusual and post modern.
Painted Backdrop:
Rather than using a green screen, modern technology, Tarantino uses painted backdrops to relate to original war films, contrasting with the modern elements he incorporates into the movie to create a mixture of the two.
Titles/Character introductions:
Creates modern action type feel and can be seen is Tarantino's other films such as Kill Bill. This isn't something that would appear in a normal war film.
Public Film Split Screen:
This creates a contrast to the modern elements of the film and reminds the audience that this film is not your typical war film.
Movie Set:
An arial view of Shoshana reveals the movie set, very unusual for a film as you as an audience member are supposed to become emersed in something that you watch as if it was reality. This element exagerates the film element and makes the movie all the more glorified.

Westerns & Spaghetti Westerns

western films tell stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the american old west. most are set between the end of the american civil war (1865) and the massacre at wounded knee in 1890

westerns often portray how primitive and obsolete ways of life confronted modern technological or social changes e.g by showing conflict between natives and settlers

westerns from the 1960s and 70s often have a more pessimistic view, glorifying a rebellious anti-hero, highlighting the cynicism, brutalityand inequalityof the american west

despite being tightly associated with a specific time and place in american history, these themes have allowed westerns to be produced and enjoyed across the world

spaghetti western is a nicknamefor a broad sub-genre of western film that emerged in the mid 1960s

they are named this because most were produced and directed by italians, usually in co-production with a spanish partner and in some cases a german partner

typical team was made up of an italian director, italo-spanish technical staff, a cast of italian and spanish actors, sometimes a fading hollywood star and sometimes a rising one

the films were typically shot in inexpensive locales resembling the american southwest

they are characterized by their production in the italian language and low budgets

Blaxpoitation

blaxploitation is a film genre that emerged in the united states circa 1971 when many exploitation films were made specifically (and perhaps exclusively) for an audience of urban black people

 the word itself is a mix of the words 'black' and 'exploitation'

blaxploitation films were the first to feature soundtracks of funk and soul music

 these films starred primarily black actors

when set in the northeast or west coast of america, blaxploitation films tend to take place in the ghetto, dealing with hit men, drug dealers and pimps

the genre frequently takes place in an atmosphere of crime and drug-dealing. ethnic slurs against whites (e.g., 'honky')

negative white characters like corrupt cops, politicians, prostitutes and gullible gangsters were common

blaxploitation films set in the south often take place on a plantation, dealing with slavery and miscegenation

blaxploitation includes several subtypes of films, including crime, action/martial arts, westerns, horror, comedy, nostalgia, coming-of-age/courtroom drama and musical

many of these films featured funk and soul jazz soundtracks with heavy bass, funky beats and wah-wah guitars

these soundtracks are notable for a degree of complexity that was not common for radio-friendly funk tracks and rich orchestration that included uncommon instruments such as flutes and violins

these films were accused of stereotyping blacks—their target audience—as pimps and drug dealers

 this dovetailed with common white stereotypes about black people, and as a result, many called for the end of the blaxploitation genre