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Alex Cox chose to film the movie mostly in an objective point of view. Should he have used a more subjective camera shot during the drug use scenes? If he had would it have changed the picture dramatically? If so, how? How would you as a filmmaker have filmed a more subjective point of view for those scenes?
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Alex Cox is very simply a cult-film phenomenon. He represents that rare breed of filmmaker whose love of underground, off-centre cinema has allowed him to transcend the barriers between making films and film appreciation.
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Cinematography: In this film, as most independent filmmakers do, Cox along with co-writer Wool used slow motion to fullfill the surreal image they portrayed in some of the most significant scenes. In the scene with the floating money, Cox uses slow motion to give the image of Sid dreaming about making lots of money, being a big hit on his own. Then the audience is presented with Sid in a club by himself with an image of Johnny Rotten sitting and watching him fail. The slow motion is again used in the famous garbage scene where Sid and Nancy are standing by the dumpster with garbage and a garbage can falling slowly around them. This gives the image of Sid and Nancy's life falling apart even more, but yet they are still in love and oblivious to the "garbage" that is going on around them. The use of drab colors, and lots of low-key lighting in this film was ... used to enhance the mood of a drug ridden lifestyle.
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Working outside the studio system, Alex Cox has become a maverick filmmaker. Known for offbeat films, Cox takes to the open road for with his latest film Searchers 2.0. He reunites with Del Zamora, Ed Pansullo and Sy Richardson. Searchers 2.0 is a revenge quest across the desert to write a wrong in a way only Alex Cox could deliver. Shot on digital video, the film proves that you can make a good movie for little money that is worth watching.
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