Intertextuality in a movie...I NEED ANSWERS FAST!!?

Question

can any one tell of a movie that has intertextuality in it?? also can you tell me how its working in the movie

Answer 1

what?

Answer 2

Um, see what wikipedia says about intertextuality:

"There have also been many modern retellings of Shakespeare plays through film - such as 10 Things I Hate About You, loosely based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, O, based on Othello, and She's the Man, based on his play Twelfth Night."

There you have three examples.  The movies "Forbidden Planet" and "Strange Brew" were also based on Shakespeare.

"Clueless" was based on some Jane Austen novel--you can look it up.

"Mean Girls" was written based on a nonfiction account of girls in high school.  Once again, I'll leave you some work.

The definition of intertextuality from the article is:  "Intertextuality is the shaping of texts' meanings by other texts."...it happens a lot in TV it seems.

Answer 3

Quentin Tarantino movies usually have a lot of intertextuality. He is clearly influenced by old spaghetti westerns and kung fu movies. He doesn't spoof them put rather reimagines them for the modern era.

Also...I would say spoofs like Airplane, Scary Movie, etc. are intertextual in that they would not exist without other movies created before them.

Also...Down With Love is a modern take on a classic Doris Day/Rock Hudson romance, but told tongue in cheek for the 21st century. In that same vein is Brick, a modern movie about high school that is told in a film noir style with lots of old-timey sounding dialogue.

BTW, Clueles is losely based on Emma by Jane Austen.