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Cinema is a cyclical phenomenon of images, themes, stories, and visions yet each interpretation presented to viewers is unique and connects with them in a different manner. By studying the foundations of cinema, one can trace the influences of directors in modern cinema. Quentin Tarantino's most recent film, Django Unchained, is not only a postmodern film that draws influences from Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen: Siegfried, an Expressionist film, and seamlessly intertwines the German legend with the Western genre. Through the film's narrative, structure, and mise-en-scene, one can see how early films and directors like Lang and Die Nibelungen: Siegfried have influenced contemporary directors like Tarantino and his film, Django Unchained.
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried is a 1924 silent fantasy film of the German Expressionist era. The film is based on the German legend of Siegfried who risks his life to help win Brunhilde's hand in marriage. Lang's film traces Siegfried's journey from a blacksmith's apprentice to hero, and chronicles the different obstacles he had to overcome to be successful in his quest. Not only does Siegfried defeat a dragon, which helps him to achieve a sort of invulnerability, he also defeats the king of dwarves, walks across of ring of fire to get to Brunhilde (Die Nibelungen: Siegfried). Lang's Die Nibelungen: Siegfried is set in the Middle Ages and attempts to remain faithful to The Song of the Nibelungs, which the film's narrative is based on (Ahearn).
While Lang's adaptation of the Siegfried follows the epic poem's narrative closely, Tarantino's...
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Philip Glass Biography Philip Glass is certainly the world's finest identified living serious composer owing to vast amounts of American recording contracts. He has a readily exclusive, if ever controversial, style that is both imitated and parodied the world over. He is familiar to pop audiences, crossover audiences, new music audiences, opera audiences and increasingly to chamber music audiences and symphony goers. He is in regular performance around the world performing
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