Comparing Le Jetee Short Film and 12 Monkeys Full movie
“La Jetée ” (1962) by Chris Marker is a short film that was remodeled by Terry Gilliam in 1995 to make a full-length movie called “ 12 Monkeys ”. Marker described his own dystopian-fable film as a photo novel instead of a film . The movie is a series of still images with voice and sound . It includes a dispassionate narrator that seems detached from the present action and gives a more distant feel to a story about obsessions with the past . Similarly, 12 M onkeys is a conscious, reverent, remodeling of M arker’s original storyline, themes, and ideas; i t ’ s made by people who are devotees of La Jetée . Told in these snapshots, L a Jetée is an intriguing lo-fi , sci-fi , time-travel tale in which a Parisian survivor of World War 3 is sent back before the planet was destroyed and radioactive to save humanity . This editing was extraordinary with its high-concept, action-oriented aspect. The unnamed man in 12 Moneys is selected because he clings hard to an ...
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