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Analyze chosen film in terms of its formal elements (visual style and design) and themes. Provide the individual history of chosen film: its social, political, cultural, and historical contexts. Relate your chosen film to one of the key concepts in this course such as: auteurism, expressionism, feminist and/or gender theories, race or class theory, queer theory, reception theory, genre theory, or star theory. Construct a critical position in your evaluation of your chosen film. Perform analysis of key scenes of sequences.
For my final paper I am going to explore ideas of the American dream and how in today?s society, the American dream is not as fulfilling as it is made out to be, there are clearly more important things in life than success and money. The film I am choosing to exemplify this concept is, Lost in Translation (2003), by Sofia Coppola. I want to explore why people are not satisfied in life even though they have what society deems is successfully, money and fame. Bill Murray plays a famous actor who is in Japan while shooting a commercial, and Scarlett Johansson who is married to a famous photographer and in Japan while he is on a photo shoot. Both of the main characters seem to have everything they could ever want, but are still unhappy and bored with their lives. The film uses drama, as well as humor to convey its messages and I will go into both of those genres and how they can help to illustrate a point. Although the main characters are rich and successful, they are also lonely, and in the case of Bill Murray?s character, this seems to be a result of his success and fame and not being around his family. I want to talk about how this movie shows that with success and fame and money, tradeoffs are made, including family, that people do not realize are important until its too late. To the outsider both of these characters are on the right path in life, successful and married, but they are both lost in their lives, and being in a foreign city only helps to show this more, I want to further explain how setting the film in Japan helps alienate the characters into realizing how empty they feel that their lives are and how lost they are in their own lives. This is the dark side of the American Dream, giving up what really matter for things that you are only told to think matter, like money and fame. Japan is used as the setting because the characters are away from their home lives and are able to escape into what they want to do away from the pressures and expectations of what?s back home in the United States. I will also talk about the rise of independent films in the 21st century; Lost in Translation was made for only $4 million but made almost $120 at the box office. I can also bring in themes of the black comedy, using alienation and reflection as a way for the audience to relate. Coppola uses themes such as loneliness and mid life?s crisis and finds the humor in them. The movie also has themes of existentialism that can be explored further. Make sure to cite at least 3 academic, scholarly sources.
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