STUDY GUIDE 2
Week 2 Guide to Readings and Film Viewing: What You Need to Know
1. Identify some of the styles used in film directing such as Montage vs. Long Takes, the Hollywood Style, the Brechtian influence on the Hollywood style etc.
2. What is film theory? What briefly constitutes the background of film theory? What are some of the key theories?
3. What is meant by "Film Text?"
4. What are the areas of tension in he Wedding Banquet? The Wedding Banquet is part of the trilogy of films that have been identified as "The Wise Patriarch Trilogy." The other films in the trilogy are Pushing Hands and Eat, Drink Man Woman. What evidence do we see of this theme in The Wedding Banquet? What scenes personify this "wisdom?"
5. Watch the documentary Slaying the Dragon. Identify the male and female stereotypes of Asians that have been portrayed in Hollywood movies.
6. How would you describe Ang Lee's directing style? What are the characteristics of his style as seen in these three movies?
7. What comparisons can you make with other films such as My Big Fat Greek Wedding or Fools Rush In?