Film noire esk - has to resolve a crime - lighting in some scenes strong exaggerated shadows - flashing neon lights eg. in SAMs house when his house is on fire - Kubrick weird style of locations - Orson Welles' citizen Kane style in the hall, long shadow - Russian style typography, bold letters lots of red.
The music increases in volume during his anxious episodes. Sam feels lost, anxious and guilty because he knows about truttle being the wrong suspect. He only cares about the woman he is looking for and fallen in love with, when he realises that he is struggling to find the her, he attempts to solve the bruttle/truttle case. The mess that he is he always dropping his papers.
Finally Sam engages with the woman claiming he loves her and dreams about her, she turns around and tells him he is paranoid and that he has no sense of reality - his reality and dreams come together where he fights the warrior in his dreams - single source lighting and low angle shots.
Lots of Kubrick influences using similar camera shots to The Shining with the typewriter and else where a resemblance to A Clockwork Orange strapped up in the chair.
We start to question 'Superman', is Tuttle Sam's imaginary friend? Blowing up the building seems to have influenced the ending of fight club. Much of the red flashing lighting is also used in fear and loathing.
Sam constantly is losing his papers all the time and he seems to lose more as the film goes on. It seems to be a metaphor for him losing the will more and more - his work environment was like a prison, representing his own cagey state of mind, locked behind a barrier.
Where as Wes Anderson's features reminds me of an old traditional painter that paints really beautifully, Brazil is an abstract master piece. A Wes Anderson film compiles of the perfect centre point for the frame, Terry Gilliam couln't be further away with his contemporary, futuristic world, but both directors remind me of clips from Stanley Kubrick's features.
I want to build or find an object that looks futuristic or complex that looks seriously weird and use it in part of my extended practice, i just need to find what it is.
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