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The 1990s: The First Days of Digital – Reality Losing Its Realness in America and Australia.

• Gladiator (2000) dir. Ridley Scott
  • almost everything in the opening shot of Gladiator was made digitally
• Intolerance (1916) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. D. W. Griffith
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) dir. James Cameron
• Anchors Aweigh (1945) dir. George Sidney
• Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) (introduced in Episode 4) dir. Winsor McCay
• Jurassic Park (1993) (introduced in Episode 11) dir. Steven Spielberg
• Titanic (1997) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. James Cameron
  • CGI was used to show audiences something they had always wanted to see but never got to
• Toy Story (1995) dir. John Lasseter
  • this was the first mainstream feature film to be made in full CGI
• The Blair Witch Project (1999) dir. Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez
  • this film was shot with mostly low tech and held cameras
• House of Flying Daggers (2004) (introduced in Episode 12) dir. Zhang Yimou
  • this film used CGI to show the movies themes of Grace
• Goodfellas (1990) dir. Martin Scorsese
• The Great Train Robbery (1903) dir. Edwin S. Porter
• The Killers (1946) dir. Robert Siodmak
  • movies of the 90’s were full of fun twist of old films
• Pulp Fiction (1994) dir. Quentin Tarantino
  • this film is very similar to the killers in its theme but is a polar opposite in the way its characters interact with each other
• Reservoir Dogs (1992) dir. Quentin Tarantino
• City on Fire (1987) dir. Ringo Lam
  • the characters look and overall themes inspired the film reservoir dogs like many films of the 90’s were inspired
• Bande à Part (1964) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • tarantino was inspired by the quick cut tittle sequence of this film
• Natural Born Killers (1994) dir. Oliver Stone
• Miller’s Crossing (1990) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
  • this film suggested that reality was fragmented and couldn’t be caught from just one angle
• The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
• O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
• The Big Lebowski (1998) dir. Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
• My Own Private Idaho (1991) dir. Gus Van Sant
  • the original intent of this film was to shoot multiple shots to show how the character was feeling
• The Shining (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick
• Elephant (2003) dir. Gus Van Sant
  • this film was about the fall from grace about young men and was made in response to the columbine shooting
• Elephant (1989) dir. Alan Clarke
• Gerry (2002) dir. Gus Van Sant
• Sátántangó (1994) (introduced in Episode 5) dir. Béla Tarr
• Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) dir. Chantal Akerman
• Last Days (2005) dir. Gus Van Sant
• Psycho (1960) (introduced in Episode 8) dir. Alfred Hitchcock
• Psycho (1998) dir. Gus Van Sant
  • this was a remake of a film that was based on a true story
• Cremaster 3 (2002) dir. Matthew Barney
• Safety Last! (1923) (introduced in Episode 2) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
• RoboCop (1987) dir. Paul Verhoeven
  • the director thought that if you said a joke after something graphic the tension would come out in the laugh
• Starship Troopers (1997) dir. Paul Verhoeven
  • this film was based on a right wing novel and had entirely CGI aliens
• An Angel at My Table (1990) dir. Jane Campion
• The Piano (1993) dir. Jane Campion
• Romeo + Juliet (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann
• Moulin Rouge! (2001) dir. Baz Luhrmann