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The Influence Of Hollywood Film

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Films are the lenses through which one could look at the world and explore the way other people think and see it however, there became a time in which films stopped being just lenses, they became an entire world that is full of mistakes as much as it is full of virtues. New kinds of filmmaking appeared as a response to the works of film production companies, such as Hollywood, and it is called Independent filmmaking. This response aimed to show the gaps Hollywood films contained, and to show that Hollywood movies do not reflect the truth, for as sherry B. Ortner, An American anthropologist and professor at UCLA states “independent producers and filmmakers can get quite angry about what Hollywood films are doing and saying. When they are explicit …show more content…

Dead Man was a response that shocked the world, as It is an independent that aimed to mock the way Native Americans’ life and cultures are portrayed by the Hollywood movies. Dead Man earned a lot of attention when was first released. Although Dead man might seem a normal movie, the implicit purposes of releasing it are way more complicated than they might appear, for it is a critical film that contained a lot of mocking elements, techniques and strategies. The importance of Dead Man comes not only from the fact that it is the first to mock the Western American films but, as its director states in one of his interviews with Scott Macaulay, a Canadian film producer, “Dead man is a very simple story on the surface, but there are so many things the film is about – history, language, America, indigenous culture, violence, industrialization” (Macaulay, 1), this movie is very comprehensive, for despite the purposes of producing it, it is a thorough …show more content…

As the film starts, William Blake mentions that he has come to the “town of machine” to work, after a man asks him about the reason he came to the “hell town”. when the name “hell” strikes the audience ears, it makes them build an image about the town he is travelling to, which leads them to desire to watch more in order to know if what they have built in their minds is matching with it or not, also, this name shows how the western towns are portrayed by the directors of Hollywood movies, for they are hell in Jarmusch’ eyes. As for the name “town of machine”, it refers to people that live inside that hell, who stopped being human long time ago, and were turned into machines controlled by the guns they own, or this is the way Hollywood movies portray western Americans. When Blake asks the Indian man about his name, he answers “I’m Nobody”, this was done to show how American movies always give useless roles to the Indians, and they view them as nothing. Even the name of the movie itself was to mock the western American culture, and it meant that every man that enters the town of machine is a definitely a

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