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A 9 page research paper that contrasts and compares Spanish director J.J. Bigas Luna's Jamon, Jamon (1992) and French director Cyril Collard's Savage Nights (1992). Examination of these movies reveals common features. These characteristics principally involve how each director employs the tools of filmmaking--that is, mise-en-scene elements, camera work, montage and soundtrack--to emphasize their themes and the particular cultures that provide the backdrop to their work. Bigas Luna and Collard are both adept at the task of weaving cinematic elements into a coherent whole, in order to tell their stories visually through the artifice of film. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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means literally "ham, ham" but was subtitled as a "tale of ham and passion" for English audiences (Berardinelli) -- is a black comedy that lampoons the Spanish cultural conception of
machismo and its inappropriateness for the modern world. Savage Nights (Les Nuits fauves) deals with the emotional and psychic impact of AIDS on the life of an HIV-positive man, and
his relationships. As this suggests, these films are quite different. However, examination of these movies reveals common features. These characteristics principally involve how each director employs the tools of
filmmaking--that is, mise-en-scene elements, camera work, montage and soundtrack--to emphasize their themes and the particular cultures that provide the backdrop to their work. Bigas Luna and Collard are both adept
at the task of weaving cinematic elements into a coherent whole, in order to tell their stories visually through the artifice of film. In Jamon, Jamon, the directors principal
theme is economics, as he pictures a Spain that is moving away from its macho-obsessed patriarchal past into a future of modernization (DLugo 65). While this move will undoubtedly bring
more economic prosperity to more of Spains population, it also brings with it an upsetting of social parameters. Bigas Luna makes this a principal focus of the film, as he
pictures the "ineffectual male figure" as being displaced by the more "aggressive female" (DLugo 65). Cinematography underscores this notion from the beginning of the film as Bigas
Luna juxtaposes icons of Spanish culture against each other. There is a predominance of "hams, bulls testicles, and close-ups of crotches and breasts" (DLugo 65). This theme is made
clear from the opening credits. A highway is shown in southern Spain, as viewed from between the legs of a billboard representation of a bull in silhouette. It is the
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