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HYPERTEXTUALITY

1.  Keenen Ivory Wayans’ film, Scary Movie, parodies Jim Gilleslie’s film, ​I Know What You Did Last Summer ​and Wes Craven’s film, Scream (Raymond, 2013). This movie utilizes hypertextuality because Scary Movie utilizes the two horror movies’ plot and in turn, parodizing it to produce an original movie.

2.  Romeo + Juliet by Baz Luhrmann Baz Luhrmann’s movie adaptation of William Shakespear’s Romeo and Juliet features a modern-day Romeo and Juliet storyline (Yousuf, n.d.). The movie’s adaptation is an example of a hypertext because it takes Shakespeare’s original work by making a film adaptation.

3.  The Wolf of Wall Street by Martin Scorsese Martin Scorses’s The Wolf of Wall Street is a biographical film about Jordan Belfort’s life story (Scott, 2019). The biographical film is an example of a hypertext because the movie’s plot is using the hypotext, Jordan Belfort’s biographical record, to make a movie plot.

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INTERTEXT

Jordan Peele’s film,US, features plenty of “easter eggs” and historicalreferences. One of the featured references that was shown in the duration of the movie is the 1986 Hands Across America movement which was re-enacted by the antagonists in the movie (Zuckerman,2019). The re-enacted reference is a form of intertextuality because it served as a brief historical reference which gave a brief meaning to the movie, if the allusion was deciphered. 

Inglourious Basterds, Sgt. DonnyDonowitz (played by Eli Roth) was seen portraying a similar shot ofTony Montana (a character fom the movie, Scarface) during a Nazigunfireinthecinema(Sherlock,2020).InglouriousBasterds’portrayal of a similar scene portrayed in Scarface is seen as anintertextuality since it recreates and references a scene in Scarface