Jackie Brown

The intro scene from the film Jackie Brown by Quentin Tarantino begins with the credits rolling in yellow and a medium shot of Pam Grier. Grier who plays Jackie is being carried on a moving walkway in stewardess apparel and looking straight ahead with ought blinking. The credits are on the left side of the screen and Greir is on the right seemingly moving together, until she finally catches up with them.

Then there is a close up of stuff in an x-ray machine with more credits now in the center of the screen. Grier passes by security unbothered with a  “how you doing” to the security guard. She is then shown walking in the airport from a low angle, long shot, from the side then a low angle, medium shot from the front with the credits still rolling. There is then a close up of her face before she starts to run. The camera follows here with a medium direct angle shot. She finally reaches here destination and gets to her plane where she greets guest a little short of breath.

What really makes this scene is the music.  It is by Bobby Womack and called “Across 110^th Street” and it plays throughout the entire opening scene. It plays throughout the movie similarly and becomes associated with Grier’s character Jackie.
 

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Nam June Paik Becoming Robot

My trip to visit the Asian Society took place on a snowy afternoon in early December. I went with my girlfriend and we were both skeptical about seeing art that consisted of Tv’s glued together in the shape of robots. We ended up being pleasantly surprised and disappointed when the exhibit was only two floors.
Nam June Paik was a innovative artist who created sculptures our of modern electronics. Displayed was a light bikini, which was a bikini made of lights, a television under a class chair looking up and many different robots made of televisions. The robots were kind of cute in a way which was appealing. The man and the woman robot were great, he used a round topped television to sculpt a dress.
There was a interactive exhibit that had three cameras that you could participate with. In the only room where pictures were allowed they set up three cameras facing you and an arrangement of different colored lights.

 The last section had Buddha’s as part of the television sculptures. It was funny and interesting to see the contrast between such a serene figure and a tv. A great trip, especially since Hunter students get in free.