Last thursday (I know, im pretty slow) we were given an activity to “recreate” and “reinterpret” one frame from a selection obtained from the films we watched that week. First re-doing it as accurately as we could, then doing something interesting with it in relation to one of Deluze’s theories.

I chose this iconic frame from Once upon a Time in the West.

Re-creating it was fairly simple in concept, just do a close up of my face and squint. You’ll see however, that my most intimidating stare is pitiful compared to Jason Rohbarbs. (I also had no hat)

For the next image the task was “re-interpretation” in relation to one of Deluze’s theories. I found quite a lot of the reading to be confusing and rather abstract, but one concept that appealed to me was Montage, and the art of putting 2 frames or shots together to create meaning. This was also relevant to the “Kuleshov Effect”, where meaning can be placed on an image simply by what accompanies it, even if the image stays the same and the accompaniment changes.

Here is my reinterpretation of the shot.

I copied the “close up of eyes staring at something” from the original, but replaced a rival who is engaged in a gun fight with a chocolate cupcake, completly re-defining the emotion behind the stare. It is no longer an intense, emotional showdown with a man who wronged me many years ago, in this image I am simply very interested in the muffin.