6 - Identity - Allusion

7/31/2019 6 - Identity - Allusion

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Im Not ThereAllusions and Techniques


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Focus Questions

(what you should be able to answer by theend)

1. What allusions are present in the film?

2. How are these created through

techniques?

3. Why should Im Not There be considered

a pastiche?


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Allusion

Haynes has stated: theres nothing in the script thats

my own.

This is a pretty big statement to make, but is a strong

representation of how reliant Haynes is on allusion

across this film. Basically, everything in the film is a

reference to something else.

This makes good sense in terms of the wider intention

of the film: the undermining of any sense of

authenticity.


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Allusion in the words

A lot of dialogue and voice over is also drawn directly

from other texts, in particular the Playboy interview that

I handed out.

Have a look at these two clips...


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Technique to Allusion

Mise-en-scene

Dialogue

Voiceover

Film stocks/colour


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Pastiche

A pastiche is a work of art, literature, music, or

architecture that openly imitates the work of a previous

artist.

And so the form of the film really nicely represents this

wider thinking about the nature of identity:

It is certain that neither men nor women are clearlydefined personalities but rather vibrations, flows,

schizzes and knots.


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Pastiche

All of this stuff works to distance the viewer from the emotional

connection we are used to in a film. We are meant to be cool

spectators, rather than becoming lost in the diegesis. There is meant

to be intellectual reflection, rather than heightened emotive response.

We are be given the opportunity to see the film as in-authentic, to have

no essence, no identity. And I think that we are meant to transfer that

understanding to the subject of the film. We are meant to see him in

the same we see the film - as having no fundamental essence, nofundamental identity. And this is all there to challenge our traditional

sense of identity as fixed and knowable. Just like the film, we are

always already something else.


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Focus Questions

(what you should be able to answer by theend)

1. What allusions are present in the film?

2. How are these created throughtechniques?

3. Why should Im Not There be considered

a pastiche?

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