Summary
THE language of cinema and the language of dreams often intertwine. The scrabbly, exploitative indignities of Hollywood are ceaselessly romanticised by references to dreams and dreaming, from Dreamworks to the Boulevard of Broken Dreams to Hilary Swank's fantastically self-mythologising Oscar acceptance speech ('I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream!') .
Trailers and taglines advertise the pursuit of dreams; and films are often described in terms of their dream-like or nightmarish qualities. Then there's the dream sequence, one of the most frequently deployed means of shifting perception or tricking an audience, which exploits the similarities between dreaming and film- watching, as well as cinema's capacity to render persuasively "real" a completely subjective and unreliable viewpoint.See the full content of this document
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Still the Dream Factory On Cinema
The Alice in Wonderland/Wizard of Oz twist (protagonist wakes up to find that the events of the preceding 90 minutes or so have been a dream, but smiles to him/herself anyway, due to having learned life lessons in the process) can still be dusted off and trotted out if a w...
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