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Takashi Fujimura's paper: Hitchcock-Hawksianism
Starting a movement of Howard Hawks
① Films in which the movement has already begun at the start of the movie: 29 films (including professional movements other than those of the main character).
"FIG LEAVES" (August 22, 1926) - Begins with primitive people hunting.
"A GIRL IN EVERY PORT" (February 26, 1927/1928) - Begins with sailors steering a yacht in the rain.
"FAZIL" (June 4, 1927/1928) - Begins with an Arab prince bringing back a deserter he captured.
"THE DAWN" "PATROL" (July 10, 1930): Begins with a scene of Army Air Corps pilots in combat.
"SCARFACE" (March 31, 1931/March 31, 1932): Begins with a gang assassinating an enemy. (The footage begins at dawn after the gang's party has ended and the streetlights have been turned off, but the sequence is shot in a long take leading up to the assassination. This sequence was filmed specifically for the purpose of "assassination," meaning the assassin was already preparing to kill when the first shot of the streetlights going out was shown.)
"VIVA VILLA!" (April 10, 1934): Begins with the government army announcing the confiscation of serfs' land.
"TWENTIETH CENTURY" (May 3, 1934) Begins with actors rehearsing for a play.
"Barbary Coast" (September 27, 1935) Begins with sailors throwing anchor into the sea.
"CEILING ZERO" (January 16, 1935/1936) Begins with a communications officer communicating with pilots in the command center of an air cargo company.
"THE ROAD TO GLORY" (June 2, 1936) Begins with a messenger delivering orders to his superior officer during wartime.
"COME AND GET IT" (October 29, 1936) Begins with a lumberjack transporting felled timber in a horse-drawn cart.
"BRINGING UP" "BABY" (February 8, 1938): Begins with an archaeologist contemplating dinosaur bones.
"HIS GIRL FRIDAY" (January 11, 1939/1940): The film begins with the daily work activities of newspaper reporters and telephone operators.
"SERGEANT YORK" (September 27, 1941): Begins with believers singing in a church and a pastor preaching.
"AIR FORCE" (February 3, 1942/1943): Begins with a communications officer in the Air Force communications room receiving a coded message and delivering it to the intelligence agency.
"TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT" (October 11, 1944): Begins with the captain going to obtain permission to depart, and then immediately sets sail.
"THE BIG "SLEEP" (August 22, 1946): Begins with a detective visiting a client's house.
"RED RIVER" (August 26, 1946/1948): Begins with a cattle herder moving his cattle.
"A SONG IS BORN" (October 19, 1947/1948): Begins with a scene of music professors performing.
"I WAS A MALE WAR BRIDE" (August 19, 1949): Begins with a soldier heading to military base in a taxi for a mission.
"THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD" (April 7, 1951): Begins with a newspaper reporter visiting a base for an interview.
"MONKEY BUSINESS" (September 5, 1952) Begins with a doctor working for a pharmaceutical company opening the door and about to leave his house, thinking about a drug he's developing.
"GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES" (July 19, 1953) Begins with a scene of a singer and dancer singing and dancing.
"Land Of The Pharaohs" (June 24, 1954/1955) Begins with the Pharaoh returning home in triumph after winning a war.
"HATARI!" (June 19, 1961/1962) Begins with a hunter searching for prey with binoculars.
"MAN'S FAVORITE" "SPORT?" (1963/January 29, 1964): Begins with a man working at a fishing tackle shop being tailgated by a woman's car on his way to work, and then having his parking space taken over (going to work is included in his duties).
"RED LINE 7000" (November 9, 1965): Begins with a racer returning from vacation driving his car to the racetrack (going to work is included in his duties).
"EL DORADO" (June 9, 1966/June 9, 1967): Begins with a sheriff heading to a hotel to interrogate a suspect.
"RIO LOBO" (December 17, 1970): Begins with a Union colonel escorting a gold bullion transport train.
② Films in which the movement begins after the movie starts: 8 films
"THE CRIMINAL CODE" (1930/1931.1.4) - Begins with detectives playing a card game (they immediately receive a phone call about a case and head out on duty, so there is a close connection to their work)
"TIGER SHARK" (1932.9.22) - Begins with a scene of porters looking at a poster announcing the news of a fishing boat being shipwrecked
"TODAY WE LIVE" (1933.3.3) - Begins with Americans arriving in England by ship undergoing immigration inspection
"ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS" (1939.5.15) - Begins with a woman disembarking at the port
"THE OUTLAW" (1941/1943.2.5) - Begins with a sheriff receiving information that his close friend, a doctor, has come to town and going to meet him (not part of the sheriff's duties)
"BALL OF "FIRE" (December 2, 1941): Begins with professors taking their daily walk (Gary Cooper, a scholar, is reading a book as he walks, which could be considered part of his job).
"THE BIG SKY" (July 29, 1951/1952): Begins with a hunter going to investigate something that has moved in the woods (it doesn't start with the hunter already searching for prey, but it's closely related to his job, so it could be classified as ①).
"RIO BRAVO" (March 8, 1958/1959): Begins with a gunman begging for drinks at a saloon (if it starts with a drunkard begging for drinks, it becomes a "professional" movement and thus classified as ①).