Turtle Can Fly Angus Xie, Honda Zhu, Julie Pan, Kent Lin, Vivien Yang, Zora Hsiang
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Turtle Can Fly
Angus Xie, Honda Zhu, Julie Pan, Kent Lin, Vivien Yang, Zora Hsiang
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OUTLINE• Introduction• Background
Information• Relation – Children• Symbols – Illusion• Film Technique• Extra Information• Q&A
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BACKGROUND INFORMATIONZora
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Background Information – Director
• Bahman Ghobadi• Kurdish Iranian filmmaker• Realtistic• Ethnic Minority – the Kurds
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Background Information – Film
Iraq, Kurdistan, 2003 Invasion of Iraq
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Iraq, Kurdistan
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Kurdistan
• “The land of Kurds”• Plateau & Mountain• After WWI –
Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria• After Persian Golf War –
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The Kurds
• Iranian, Sunni Muslim• Own Language and Culture• Kurdistan, Nomadic• After WWI –
promised to create Kurdistan as a countryOil found in territory →
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The Kurds
• Early 20th Century: Nationalism• Oppressed, especially in Iraq and Turkey• Genocide in Iraq, Saddam Hussein –
* Iran-Iraq War: Halabja Poison Gas Attack* Persian Golf War – Kurdish Safe-Haven (Northern Iraq )
• * 1996 incursion into “Safe-haven”
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RELATION – CHILDRENAngus & Honda
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Society Formed By ChildrenRefugees Orphans
To Survive To Support Family
Cooperate with Each Other
Naturally Forms Micro Society Generates Power Relationship
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Care
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Trust
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Responsibility
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Care
Trust
Sympathy
Empathy
Love
Responsibility
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Children – Power
• Satellite takes charge other children.
– Help them find jobs, survive.
• Others look up to him.
– Knowledge.– Satellite dish.
– Information.
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How Children Survive
• Clear mine fields
• More crippled,
More expert
• Endless vicious circle– Mine would,
eventually,
GO OFF.
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How Children Survive
• Clear artillery shells– 1 USD= 1169 IQD
• A dud might explode.
• Show the intensity of warfare.
• Knowing the extortion, to play or to die.
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Children’s attitude
• Having fun in the most un-laughable situation.– Naiveness
– Optimism
• Comradeship– Support each other.
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SYMBOL – ILLUSIONJulie & Vivien
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Symbols comparison• Satellite
– Appearance
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-Superior ability and knowledge
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-Pro-American, media hegemony (the dish)
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- The bike
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• Red fish– The cure of blind eyes
Different meanings in China and Iran* Iran: one of the seven symbols of Nowruz , the Iranian New Yea* China: propitious/success
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• Water (amniotic fluid/lake)
– The place where life starts and ends
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• mine/tank/guns– The objects that ruin the Kurdish kids’ life– Exchanging mine for food– for dish– for guns– Satelitte living in a tank
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• Agrin– The mother(the child/Kurdish)– Asking for leaving– Choosing suicide– Rejectin Satellite
• Ria- the weak connection between Iraq and Kurd
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• Series of disappointments ILLUSIONS in regard to America’s image
1) USA mine: - Satellite get injured: collapse of optimism “You kept saying USA until you fell on USA mine.” - Broken bike
2) Red fish: fake appearance
Symbols as Illusion
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Irony• Satellite: optimism1)1:00:13~1:00:50 American army: ‘It’s the end of injustice, misfortune and
hardship. We are your best friends and brothers. Those against us are our enemies. We will make this country a paradise. We are here to take away your sorrows. We are the best in the world.’
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Juxtaposition: people on the hill, Hengov and the child - America: fallacy and hype - Kurdish people: causalities
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2) 1:29:45~1:31:00 Satellite walks away without saying any words when the American army arrive
3) Use of color Beginning: colorful the film is shown in a Gloomy weather
Ending: dreary
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FILM TECHNIQUEKent
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Film Technique
• the scene Agrin goes to the high cliff main motif • the person in the upside-down reflection in the lake (throwing a stone or a rock?)• Soviet Montage juxtaposition• suicide to atone her sins • Mannerism landscape in a high-angle shot • the jumping scene vs. the film title• mine vs. turtle
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• the telephoto lens to get Agrin’s close-up • using the nonprofessional performers
to prove the reality of the local society• realism vs. reality • hand-held shots documentary• bird’s-eye shots • high-contrast angle shots • child’s eye-level shots
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• composition triangular designs• the movement away from the camera • the movements from right to left vs. the
movements from left to right• the movement out of the depth of the
scene & a long take
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EXTRA INFORMATIONZora
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Life in Fog (1998)
A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)
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Q&A
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QUESTION:Why is the film titled “Turtle Can Fly”?
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Works Cited• Turtle Can Fly. Bahman Ghobadi. IFC, 2004. • http://74.125.153.132/search?q=cache:5k3UkjVq8J8J:www.oca.com.tw/
sidepage/magazine/80/03.doc+%E7%BE%8E%E4%BC%8A%E6%88%B0%E7%88%AD%E5%89%8D%E5%A4%95%EF%BC%8C%E5%BA%AB%E5%BE%B7%E6%97%8F&cd=1&hl=zh-TW&ct=clnk&client=opera
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halabja_poison_gas_attack• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Kurdish_people• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_people#Origins_and_History• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan• http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2386/2072069728_0d37c0d28a.jpg• http://movie.kingnet.com.tw/search/index.html?act=actor&r=1124161967• http://ifvc.com/images/lifeinfog.jpg• http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/september96/kurds_9-6.html• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/daily/feb99/kurdprofile.htm