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"2.5 Hades" -- the allusions to German Expressionism, Film Noir, and Gangster cinema

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www.YouPlural.com facebok.com/YouPluralMovie In the Hades section we recreate, shot-for-shot and sometimes word-for-word, all of the scenes in the video above; however, we allude to many other works in these genres in other ways (for instance, a man with a chalk "M" on his back passes Bloom whistling "Hall of the Mountain King" from Fritz Lang's "M"). The Hades section of You (Plural) is particular for many reasons: it is shot entirely from the literal first person perspective of Ulysses Bloom; it includes either every last line a character spoke in Shakespeare's oeuvre before committing suicide or another character's reference to it ("Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow"); it also charts the evolution of German Expressionism to Film Noir to Gangster cinema. Why? Hades is a scene which, in real time, has Bloom walk up and down the Tower District section of Fresno (which some deride as being ridden with crime, drug users, and the homeless, but others laud for being a section of Fresno which openly accepts homosexuals, is home to the Reel Pride LGBT Film Festival, the Fresno Film Festival, and a community of almost exclusively incredible mom and pop restaurants, cafes, bars, and shops). Because of Tower District's pejorative and mostly unfounded association with crime and because Ulysses is a stranger in a strange land, the thematic and chronological links between all three aforementioned genres spontaneously pop up when Bloom meets new people. Here is a list of the works cited in chronological order: "Nosferatu" d. F.W. Murnau "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" d. Robert Wiene "Destiny" d. Fritz Lang "Metropolis" d. Fritz Lang "Sunset Blvd." d. Billy Wilder "M" d. Fritz Lang "The Big Sleep" d. Howard Hawks "Touch of Evil" d. Orson Welles "Double Indemnity" d. Billy Wilder "The Maltese Falcon" d. John Huston "The Naked City" d. Jules Dassin "Le Cercle Rouge" d. Jean-Pierre Melville "Chinatown" d. Roman Polanski "Goodfellas" d. Martin Scorsese "Band of Outsiders" d. Jean-Luc Godard "Bonnie and Clyde" d. Arthur Penn "Mean Streets" d. Martin Scorsese "Pulp Fiction" d. Quentin Tarantino "Scarface" d. Brian De Palma "Reservoir Dogs" d. Quentin Tarantino "The Godfather" d. Francis Ford Coppola "Bugsy" d. Berry Levinson "Breathless" d. Jean-Luc Godard