My bad, I totally lost time and forgot to post before 9. Hopefully this is okay. During the film Redskin, I noticed that there was a lot more text for the viewer to read. Other films that we have watched there really was not any text to read and if there was, it was short. In Redskin there was on average a text to read every few minutes. This increase in reading seemed to me that the producers of the film really wanted the audience to come out of the film with one idea and story. In other movies the story was left up to the interpretation of the audience. I think that this film was one of the first to push movies into more of a narration and one base line.
Another thing that I noticed was that the screens with the text were different. While with the Natives, the screen was larger and it had a design, but with the whites the screen was half the size and only black and white. I really do not understand why this was done, there does not seem to be a reason.
One of the other main things that I noticed was the use of makeup. During the film, the story fast forwards like ten or more years and instead of getting all new actors, the characters were dressed up in makeup to make them appear older. Other movies that were watched before this, there was no makeup used for the characters besides powder to make people's skin color lighter. Wing Foot's father and the other main characters were dressed up in makeup that gave them wrinkles and gray hair, all of this made the tribe members look old. Also later in the movie Wing Foot is out in the desert and he discovers oil. When the whites come looking they find Wing Foot who looks crazed. This is done through dark makeup around his eyes. The makeup also makes him look sickly and close to death.
This film did many different things that I had not seen done in earlier films. This was a very interesting film to watch and was not hard to watch.
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I agree with what you said about how there was more text to read in this film- I noticed that too. I preferred it this way because it made the story line of the movie seem more apparent and helped me to follow along easier. In other silent films such as Within Our Gates, the text did not appear as often and it was a bit difficult to interpret what was going on in certain scenes.
ReplyDeleteYes, there's more text (and more dialogue intertitles) in this film, Kyle; this seems more natural than the simple "Here is what's happening" intertitles of the early films (which were necessary for that time period).
ReplyDeleteI noticed the more dialogue based titles too, I think it definitely helped me fallow the story easier, therefore being able to understand the plot throughout the movie. I also agree with Megan, Within Our Gates was a lot harder to follow; we kind of had to guess and interpret what was going on then confirmed it with one of the few intertitles. It was annoying going I think this is going on but oh no this is what they meant. And by the simple fact of knowing what was going on in the story, when Redskin finished I didn't have as much open-ended questions at the end unlike Within Our Gates.
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