Intertextuality - Fight Club

Fight Club



There is also a very significant intertextual reference to be made to fight Club. Throughout the course of the film, the unnamed protagonist's anarchist activist alter-ego of Tyler Durden is shown to be flashing in and out of the shots, as if he himself has been edited into the film, as he himself is shown to have been doing within the film itself. We have somewhat mirrored this in our own video, with the very rapid punching montage interspersed with shots of other shots of the interior, and shots of the secondary non-existent character.  

The use of this montage formation is important, because it gives the audience some idea of what the protagonist is looking for, and what his end-goal is (with shots of both the secondary character, and shots of the doorway). These shots are pinned together in such a way as to make the audience understand the anguished feelings of the protagonist, and so form an empathetic connection with him.

Intertextuality - Oldboy

Oldboy



This scene in Oldboy is a rather good comparison to make with the wall punching in our video; the encapsulation of the anger of both characters. The plot of the film is also not unlike that of our music video; the main character (Oh Dae-Su) spends his time searching for a lost person in his life (his daughter, Mi-Do, who's fourth birthday he misses when he goes missing), when in actuality the person is with him the entire time. Additionally, there is a recurring stylistic approach in Oldboy that bears similarities with our music video, for instance a lot of the interiors of the film are somewhat decrepit and misused, which bears a resemblance to the abandoned airfield command structure that we filmed inside.