Transcript The Free Market Cinema

The Free Market Cinema
Polish Action Flms in the 1990
PIGS (Psy, 1992)
 Psy=Dogs, slang for cops.
 Director:
Władysław Pasikowski.
 Starring:
Bogusław Linda, Marek Kondrat,
Cezary Pazura, Janusz Gajos.
 "What is 'Dogs' about? 'About a
dog's world, about the fact that
freedom also engenders filth and
stupidity while destroying ideals.”
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Pigs II: The Last Blood
(Psy II: Ostatnia krew, 1994)
 A critic about Pigs: “[I]t is
one of the most important
Polish films of the 1990s. ...
going far beyond the craft
of gangster films,
introducing a new
esthetics and a new type of
a hero to Polish
filmmaking.” (Gazeta
Wyborcza, December 15,
2000).
A new (anti?)hero of the 1990s
 Lonely;
 Middle-aged;
 Desperate;
 Reckless;
 Drinking;
 Out of work;
 Former officer;
 Hopelessly fights criminals;
 Wins accidentally (if ever).
Sara (1997)
 Director:
Maciej Ślesicki
 Starring:
Bogusław Linda and Agnieszka
Włodarczyk
 Genre:
action/romance/parody.
 Ironic references to famous
films, Polish and American.
Sara: Ironic References
 Mafia films (The
Godfather)watched by the
characters;
 A poster of Daddy (Tato);
 The character’s name and a poster
of Leon: The Professional by Luc
Besson.
 A tango scene: The Scent of a
Woman.
 Leon burns a book: Dostoevski’s
Crime and Punishment.
 The final scene: K9.
Sara
 Drug dealer scene
 The tango scene
 Action
The Killer (Kiler, 1997)
 Director: Juliusz Machulski
 Starring: Cezary Pazura, Jerzy
Stuhr.
 Soundtrack: Electryczne Gitary
(Electric Guitars), a popular rock
group.
 A quid pro quo (mix-up) comedy.
 Parody on Western action films;
comic use of clichés.
 Followed by Two Killers (Kiler-ów 2-
óch, 1997).