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The Player
M
Robert Altman,
124 mins,
USA,
1992.
The Player marks the return to Hollywood of director Robert Altman, after being shut out by major studios for his uncommercial approach to filmmaking.
Relishing the irony of returning to the Hollywood fold in order to a make a film about its excesses, superficiality and amorality, Altman created a film that is obsessively self-referential, trapped within the Hollywood world it critiques.
The Player has all the elements of the successful Hollywood film outlined by its amoral protagonist Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins): 'suspense , laughter, violence, hope, heart, nudity, sex, happy endings.'
In order to examine the idea of formula, the lecture will unpick the tapestry of conventions, allusions and in-jokes that make up the film in order to examine Altman's depiction of the blinkered 'reality' of the self-absorbed characters who inhabit this gleefully superficial film.
Levels: Year 12 (VCE) | Teacher Development
Study Areas: VCE English, Units 3 and 4, Area of Study 2 (Whose Reality?)
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Student Lecture: $15 per student (minimum 30 students)
Teacher Seminar: $110 (full day)
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