Futures, Made of, Inter-Textuality (sing it)

Every time I say intertextuality I want to start singing Jamerequi which is kind of annoying but at the same time, I guess its actually a good example of intertextuality! In a round about sort of way at least! For the lecture we had some examples of intertextuality, quite cool ones too! First one was Charlton Heston in the original Planet of the Apes, shouting 'Damn you! Damn you all to hell!' and then same guy in the newest Planet of the Apes, but playing the part of an ape instead of a man, saying the exact same lines! Cute hey?


Later we watched clips from Spaced, Kill Bill and Sin City. All very good, and relevant! But the idea of Sin City made me think, because its REALLLLYYYY stylised and it sticks very heavily to the graphic novel its based on! Which got me thinking obviously this whole film is intertextual as it is an entire reference almost frame for frame of the comic! With massive film noir references too, similar to other films of the same genre like Watchmen.


So then I obviously got thinking and thought about other films which follow similar lines as Sin City and Watchmen, and I thought about a film called 'REPO! The Genetic Opera' fantastic film, its a musical based on... well a musical! haha but the style it follows is very similar to that of a comic book! Infact the entire intro to the film is a comic book, showing panels and hand drawn images of the back story behind the film. This comic book style is very similar to the look of old DC comics, which in itself is a little intertextual nod toward the comicbook industry!


The whole style has a very gothic, film noir feel about it, with many intertextual links to various industries, the biggest of these is possibly toward the end of the film where a few scenes take place on a stage in front of an audience. this is intertextual because as i said this film was based on an on-stage musical!

And heres the thing about blogs that I don't understand, where do i stop? I mean its not like this is an essay, with a start middle and end, and i couldn't do that thing and end half wa