Film and mirror is a key concept when looking at the realities and fantasies created by cinema and the relationship created between connected characters and the visual spectator. When looking at Hollywood film alike, there is a clear trend in the way western cinema has adapted in exchanging identities within the characters on screen to allow for the dynamic identification and self-estrangement within new western audiences to stories already told elsewhere. Because what’s within the frame constructs meaning, we see a change of western aesthetic take over Hollywood cinema, and these changes thus allow for self-reflexivity being employed as the spectators can look back at themselves unveiling a truth in the whitewashing trend Hollywood partakes in remakes of storytelling and the idea of imagination of new worlds as un unconscious force creating mirror and face relations between the visual spectacle and viewer.
The trend of whitewashing Hollywood cinema allows for a new connectivity within western culture as Hollywood implement traditions, attitudes through the screen of retelling stories western audiences can critically engage with, recognise themselves, and allow spectators to enter a world previously unknown that gives the ability for them to look back at themselves, which is where this new connection is created.
Film over film
Ghost in a shell is a perfect example of current examples of whitewashing cinema, receiving critical reviews surrounding the controversy about the idea that for Janene’s remake, it needed to stare a white actress to be successful when looking at the oringal ghost in the shell to the 2017 remake. The use of using Scarlett Johansson opens a new audience that may otherwise not have come to watch the film without the original connection between their own embodiment and world on screen. However, white washing also means that the lack of mirror and face relationship of other ethnicities is missed and disregarded. New relationships are created with the mirror and facWesternrn audiences instead, setting the tone and evoking a new aesthetic.
Film vs comic
When looking at film vs comic for the film Wanted we see a new way of representing characters whom are mirroring characters on comics. A loose adaption at best, the movie strays away from the original source content a lot. The characters on screen display a disconnected mirrored relationship between the ones represented within the comic creating a different discourse of meaning and distance from the comic but also reveals motif within the Hollywood trend of white washing as some characters such as Angelia Jollies character changing form African American in the comics to Caucasian in the cinematic remake.
Film Vs Person
Looking at the film the social network, mirror/face relationships become more complicated when considering representing people within the real world. More complicated as the mirrored image on the screen of the visual representation of the characters on the screen changes the way they are interpreted and the ideas and relationships audiences have with them. As the film was released and with time, information about the real people being visualised on screen was released, as the truth of the real face and personalities of those on screen differed from what everyone had perceived as the mirrored imaged characters within the film. Thereby, the mirror and face relationships depicted in film demonstrate the power and complexities created through what the viewer see’s and can relate to on a personal and meaningful level.
References
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/06/28/absolutely-fabulous-who-was-the-real-patsy-stone/
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