Film production has changed drastically over the years; directors have started to take risks by challenging common ideologies and conventional film techniques.
Slacker opened my mind to possibilities of film, it almost felt like a ‘one shot’ piece as very little editing was used. Jan Fortgang, a Film4 critic, explains that ’No single character or strand is allowed to dominate or even develop. Every scene is a snapshot, Linklater's camera hovering for a while on the edge of one exchange before growing bored and following another.’ which I have to completely agree with.

The editing style got tedious after a while, since as soon as you got indulged into one character’s story the camera would track another character, leaving you in question. This reminded me of Otolith Group’s installation at the Turner Prize as there was so much information being put forth that after a while was hard to digest.

The Long Goodbye contrasts well against Slacker as it has a conventional protagonist, Phillip Marlowe. This movie also follows the conventional five stages of story telling; there’s a solid resolution when Marlowe shoots his friend, the one who he was protecting throughout the whole movie. This resolution is emphasised when Marlowe dances off into the distance as if there was nothing else to solve. Marlowe is made out to be an intelligent detective however he fails in tricking his cat into eating a different brand of cat food, this foreshadows the detectives ways and signifies that he cant hide anything.
The movie also carries typical ideologies, for example women being elegant; Gould continuously shows this, both orally, with her British accent and visually, by wearing dresses in almost every scene. 
This differs to Slacker, as the movie plays with common ideologies, like in the scene where the unnamed girl with sunglasses tries to sell Madonna’s ’Pap Smear’. The character is dressed in a black baggy t-shirt and worn out shorts, this shows her lack of care in physical appearance, going against the ideology of women being elegant.

Une Femme Est Une Femme is similar to The Long Goodbye as Angela follows the ideology of a woman, by carrying out the household chores, yearning for a baby and being highly sensitive. Many cinematic techniques were used, I especially enjoyed the long pan’s used with the text interfering its emptiness, it creatively showed time passing and story telling. This is similar to Slacker as long pans are used continuously.

This movie, like The Long Goodbye, has a main protagonist, Angela, with beauty as her strong point.
The scene where the purple light is shone against Angela’s face reminded me of Andy Warhol’s print of Marilyn Monroe; this emphases Godard’s passion for conceptual ideas.

Godard plays with the idea that orchestral music should be used to create tension, he uses the music whilst Angela and Emile argue giving an overall comical approach.
Une Femme Est Une Femme was created before Slacker and the Long Goodbye however I believe Jean-Lu Godard was way ahead of his time as he challenges traditional forms of film without changing common ideologies. All three movies have shown the evolution of film; challenging traditional forms of film with conceptual ideas in modern times has become a must.
Bibliography
Film4 Review on Slacker
http://www.film4.com/reviews/1991/slacker
27/02/2011 19.02
Otolith Group’s Installation, Turner Prize, Tate Britain
03/10/2010
Andy Warhol Print, National Portrait Gallery, Postcard
02/11/2011
Sunday 27 February 2011
Week 1 FMP
I enjoy changing the speed of drawing as drawing from movies were a lot quicker than drawing from still life in Museums.
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