Poetic Realism in Drive and Port of Shadows Author: Dylan Possoit Faculty Sponsor: Joyce Johnston

Poetic Realism in Drive and Port of Shadows Author: Dylan Possoit Faculty Sponsor: Joyce Johnston

Poetic Realism in Drive and Port of Shadows Author: Dylan Possoit Faculty Sponsor: Joyce Johnston • Research Idea: Take a 1930s French Film and a modern production/films/bf4fa213775dfb28b88fec3cf7e591f3/npz6imAc55viSlErqx5RV1pItUSk2B_large.jpg - American film to examine Poetic Realism https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion • Method: A rhetorical analysis https://i.pinimg.com/originals/27/ed/04/27ed0416e2656288300d8edb2cc0210f.jpg Port of Shadows of the filmmaking, Drive performances, and the staples • Director: Marcel Carné of the genre. • Director: Nicolas Winding Refn • Jean Gabin is the desperate solider • Ryan Gosling is the lonely driver on the run. • Findings: That poetic realism, with no name. above all, is a mood or • Takes the typical noir setting and • A neo-noir setting that uses its fills it with a fog that is a metaphor atmosphere that a film vibrant colors to enhance the idea for the characters' desperation. creates. Drive benefits more of the audience witnessing Driver's from being classified as a fairy-tale. • Every character wants to shed their real identity to take on a modern poetic-realist film • Driver views himself as the white fabricated one that projects the way than a neo-noir. knight of his own story, even they each view themselves. donning a mask to commit murder • Relevance: The term poetic so that the blood is not on his • In a moment of rage, Jean reveals realism should be used in film hands. his true identity to Nelly, and classification for modern films, because of it he loses the girl, and • The story of the Scorpion and the his life. instead of saving it for a Frog specific era of film..

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