There are often scenes within the films where two characters are having normal, everyday conversations which donвЂ™t necessarily have much to do with narrative progression. Love is both complicated and dangerous within these stories.Д«oth of these films have very naturalistic performances and dialogue. In Chungking Express, both love stories are left open-ended and ambiguous. In Breathless,В the girl, whom the male protagonist loves, turns him into the police, resulting in his death at the end of the film. Both films follow characters who have fallen in love with someone, yet this love isnвЂ™t exactly mutual. The narrative of these films are both driven entirely by one underlying theme love. The film also uses other editing techniques such as freeze frames, recurring imagery and montage which are all present throughout GodardвЂ™s work. The editing style in Chungking Express is directly influenced by Godard. Breathless is famous for being one of the first films to use jump cuts as a stylistic element, and a regular form of narrative exposition. The most noticeable similarity between the two films are the frequent use of jump cuts to progress time, and communicate information. These techniques ultimately bring the audience closer to the characters, letting them empathise with, and understand them on a more human level, as they observe the scene from the perspective of another characterВ (as opposed to simply observing characters through an omniscient camera, with no personality, as you do while watching a Kubrick film). Both films also incorporate many big close ups on characterвЂ™s faces, emphasising their facial expressions. The camera feels like an extra presence in the room. This, accompanied with the long takes during dialogue scenes gives the camera a human personality. Here are some similarities between Chungking Express and GodardвЂ™s 1960 film вЂ BreathlessвЂ™:Д¬hungking Express borrows many camera techniques from Breathless handheld camera shots help give both films their gritty, realistic feel. Not only is Chungking ExpressВ similar, stylistically, to GodardвЂ™s work, but it is also influenced both thematically and in itвЂ™s narrative. It is quite obvious that вЂ Kar Wai WonвЂ™, the director of вЂChungking ExpressвЂ™ (1994) is influenced heavily by вЂJean Luc GodardвЂ™ and french new wave cinema.

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