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| - | '''Hyperlink cinema''' is a term coined by [[Alissa Quart]], who used the term in her review of the film ''[[Happy Endings]]'' for ''[[Film Comment]]''. Noted film critic [[Roger Ebert]] subsequently popularized the term when reviewing the film ''[[Syriana]]''. | ||
| - | Hyperlink movies are films following multiple story lines and multiple characters. These story arcs and characters intersect obliquely and subtly. Events in one story arc affect other story lines or characters, often in ways that the characters are unaware of or do not fully understand. Hyperlink cinema is often characterized by globe-spanning locations, multiple languages, and frequent though unanounced use of flashback and flashforward. Also, strict parameters in terms of art direction, cinematography and [[mise en scène]] are used in each story line, so as to create an abrupt visual break when cutting between characters and arcs. | + | '''''Happy Endings''''' is a 2005 [[Lions Gate Entertainment]] picture directed by [[Don Roos]] and starring [[Lisa Kudrow]], [[Tom Arnold]], [[Steve Coogan]] and [[Maggie Gyllenhaal]]. The expression 'happy ending' is a [[colloquialism|colloquial]] term for the practice of a massage therapist to [[Erotic massage|offer sexual release]] to a client. |
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| - | The genre was generally identified as such in 2005 with ''[[Syriana]]'', though its development can be traced back to the beginning of cinema. It is generally agreed that director [[Robert Altman]] is a major influence on the development of the Hyperlink movie. The first true hyperlink movie was ''[[Traffic (2000 film)|Traffic]]'', which systematically defined and applied the basic rules of hyperlink cinema: Multiple story arcs, multiple (and international) locations, use of radically different cinematography and mise en scène to define each story arc, and character ignorance of defining events ocurring in other story arcs. | + | |
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| - | Canonical examples of the hyperlink film include: | + | |
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| - | *''[[Traffic (2000 film)|Traffic]]'' (2000) | + | |
| - | *''[[Amores Perros]]'' (2002) | + | |
| - | *''[[Crash (2004 film)|Crash]]'' (2004) | + | |
| - | *''[[Syriana]]'' (2004) | + | |
| - | *''[[21 Grams]]'' (2004) | + | |
| - | *''[[Nine Lives (2005 film)|Nine Lives]]'' (2005) | + | |
| - | *''[[Happy Endings]]'' (2005) | + | |
| - | *''[[Babel (2006 film)|Babel]]'' (2006) | + | |
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| - | Further examples of hyperlink cinema include: | + | |
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| - | *''[[Magnolia (film)|Magnolia]]'' (1999) | + | |
| - | *''[[11:14]]'' | + | |
| - | *''[[20:30:40]]'' | + | |
| - | *''[[Cape of Good Hope (film)|Cape of Good Hope]]'' | + | |
| - | *''[[Carnages]]'' | + | |
| - | *''[[Dazed and Confused (film)|Dazed and Confused]]'' | + | |
| - | *''[[Go (1999 film)|Go]]'' (1999) | + | |
| - | *''[[Happiness (film)|Happiness]]'' | + | |
| - | *''[[Last Night]]'' | + | |
| - | *''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]'' | + | |
| - | *''[[Love Actually]]'' | + | |
| - | *''[[Me and You and Everyone We Know]]'' | + | |
| - | *''[[Monsoon Wedding]]'' | + | |
| - | *''[[Pulp Fiction]]'' | + | |
| - | *''[[Reservoir Dogs]]'' | + | |
| - | *''[[The Rules of Attraction]]'' | + | |
| - | *''[[Slacker]]'' | + | |
| - | *''[[Snatch (film)|Snatch]]'' | + | |
| - | *''[[Time Code]]' | + | |
| - | *''[[Thirteen Conversations About One Thing]]''' | + | |
| - | *''[[Wilby Wonderful]]'' | + | |
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| - | Robert Altman films cited as defining influences: | + | |
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| - | *''[[Nashville (film)|Nashville]]'' | + | |
| - | *''[[Short Cuts]]'' | + | |
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Happy Endings is a 2005 Lions Gate Entertainment picture directed by Don Roos and starring Lisa Kudrow, Tom Arnold, Steve Coogan and Maggie Gyllenhaal. The expression 'happy ending' is a colloquial term for the practice of a massage therapist to offer sexual release to a client.
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