Monday, March 23, 2009

Intertextuality is a place in a text that references another text in some way. It can reference another text in multiple ways. It can just mention another text by saying the name, or it can be a direct quote from another text. There are some movies that are completely based off of other moves because they are making fun of them. All of the “Not Another Scary Movie” movies are examples of this. They are multiple scenes from a selection of scary movies and basically just mock and make the horror films into a joke. Also, some movies just reference another movie for some reason. An example of this that stands out in my mind is in the movie “Step Brothers.” The scene that I am thinking about is when Dale is having his first counseling session with his therapist. He decides to not take his session seriously and decides to act like he is Will Hunting from the movie “Good Will Hunting”. He says that he is a janitor for a very prestigious college and thinks that he is smarter than everyone that goes to the school. He says that he sometimes goes to the board in the hallways and solves impossible equations that no one else can solve. The therapist says that he is just pretending that he is Will Hunting and is just stating the plot of the movie. But Dale denies this claim and continues on with his pretend life by acting like he is Will Hunting.

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