I think one of the most important scenes in 'Dazed and Confused' was when Randall (or "Pink" Floyd) and his friends got caught for trespassing on the football field and Randall ends up having to talk with his football coach. This is importance because in the beginning on the film each football player on the high school team was given a consent form that must be signed to show that they will not engage in any illegal activities or use alcohol/illegal substances during the summer and throughout the football season. Randall, the quarter back, objects to signing this form and is constantly bombarded to sign it for the team's,the town', and his future's sake. Even though Randall has many reasons to sign the consent form, he doesn't see it as doing any good for himself because all he really wants to do before he grows up is to have as much fun as he can and do what he wants to do without anyone trying to run his life. Randall and the coach’s talk shows how serious that Randall is about being able to make decisions for himself and do what he wants to do. The coach talks about how everyone is depending on Randall to sign that form and what a disappointment it would be if he gave up football just because of this form; but Randall reassures the coach by telling him he will play football next year, but he would never sign that form. At that point, it is the end of hearing about the consent form and when summer truly begins for Randall.
"I think they're just worried that some of us are having too good a time"- Randall
Many of the movies that Richard Linklater has directed, including 'Dazed and Confused', take place during one twenty four hour period. Dazed and Confused depicts several groups of teenagers on the last day of school in 1976. Between getting caught trespassing onto a football field and the climatic kegger hidden in a local forest of Texas (another element common in Linklater's works), he achieves keeping his audience's attention by his use of non diegetic sound. In between scenes, switching from different friend groups and characters, Linklater fills the gap with popular music common to the 1970's time period, like Alice Cooper's "School's out". A school bell rings, on the last day of school 1976, letting out a wave of relieved and excited kids- a perfect match for Cooper's song; I liked how it fit the context/plot of the film! The song also foreshadows some of the mischief and trouble that those very same kids would run into later in the film. Like as Claire pointed out, Randall's objection to the pledge to abstain from illegal activity and his ultimate run in with his coach after getting caught for trespassing formed good characterization and also fit the song well.
A scene that I felt was really important aswell, was the final shot of the main characters; Pink, David, Ron and Simone driving down a highway on their way to buy Aerosmith tickets. This is right after the part that Claire described in which Randall "Pink" Floyd throw's the pledge into Coach Conrad's face, declaring that he would only play football on his own terms. The last scene, where they are driving off down the highway is accompanied by the non diegetic sound of Aerosmith's "Slow Ride", which is the concert they are set on purchasing tickets to. The song is also played in the opening scene as Pink and the gang arrive at school. I thought Richard Linklater's use of sound in Dazed and Confused reflected the time period very well, and added for smooth transistions between scenes.
'Slacker' was a different movie...We kind of expect a movie to make sense and to have a specific plot, but this movie leads the audience all around Austin, Texas and connects stories and lives of others by the starting of a simple conversation or a person walking by. Even though the film was different from what I normally watch, I liked the whole setting and idea of the film. This multiple stories are shown through out an entire 24 hour period, which was also done in Linklater's 'Dazed and Confused'. The thing I like most about this film is that almost everyone has had the thought of when walking by someone and wondering what they were going to do that day, or who they person is, ect. Linklater was able to take those questions and curiosities of the mysteries of others lives and formed them into a comical, deep and philisophical film about youth, the government, and life in general.
One of my favorite scenes in 'Slacker' was when the 3 men go to the bridge with a typewriter, a book and... ( I FORGOT THE OTHER ITEM!) Anyways, the items belonged to the woman who screwed over one of the men, and his friends and him were going to throw the items into the river/creek. The reason why I liked this scene was because I've always seen girls do stuff like this in real life(LIKE ME! haha) or in movies, but I've never seen guys do something like that to get over someone. I know though stuff like that probably does happen for boys too. Heart break happens to everyone, and it's an important thing to experience in our lives (especially as a teenager and through our early adult lives) because then we can recognize the person who we are truly meant to be with. I like that Linklater was able to incourparate all spectroms on the ideas of love and romance, such as this particular scene and the couple who don't "get out much", and the guy picking up the 3 girls at the bar.
I really enjoyed "Slacker" because it really showed many different aspects of how humans behave and different relationships, different personalities and different situations. It was basically a story that had no story, but was a collection of snip-its of many peoples summer day. I noticed, that each person had something different to say about life, and about the hardships going on in the world. Each person had a different perspective on things which is what made this movie so interesting. You could sit there and not know where you were going next and who you were going to follow next. When you are introduced to a new character you have no idea who you are going to be following or getting to know for the next ten minutes, you are given no explanation as to who they are and you have no idea what they are going to do. That's what makes this film so interesting.
Yeah, Slacker was really odd and different as Claire said. It followed the same style as Dazed and Confused, following a day in the life of ordinary people, more specifically a younger more detached generation of Americans in Texas. The movie follows the length of a day (just like Dazed and Confused), starting out with the opening scene of Paul who is filmed in the opening scene gazing out a bus window. Something that I found rather interesting was that the director, Linklater, casted himself as the role of Paul. That amused me because I hadn’t expected the director to be so young looking! He sits rambling about reality to the taxi driver, Roy, using a metaphor referring the Wizard of Oz and the path’s that Dorthy could have taken, which I found particularly amusing.
I thought that the opening scenes of Paul on the bus and then getting into “Roy’s Taxi” were particularly important and a little humorous because the plot/story unwinds right as he gets out of the taxi and an old woman lays sprawled in the middle of the street with her groceries flung around her, victim of an obvious hit and run murder. What I found shocking and really set the tone of the film was the fact that none of the pedestrians seemed too throttled or shaken at the sight of her dead body. A sleazy man who stops because of the road obstruction of her body; jumps out of his car annoyed and doesn’t even investigate the situation. He instead proceeds to flirt with a jogger, who doesn’t seem upset by the body at her feet; she continues to bounce up and down insistent on continuing her exercise.
I believe this movie has a lot to say about American Society during the 1990s, and the youth of America’s lack of ambition and their detachment from life, family, culture, and politics.
I also thought that it was really interesting that Paul doesn't tell anyone that he is leaving and all he leaves behind is a symolic stack of postcards in the middle of his empty room. He describes his boring and monotinous life, a message to the people he left behind.
Something that i found particularly humorous was that girl (who reminded me completely of Slater from "Dazed and Confused"), was trying to sell Madonna's pap smear. ew!
The characters from Slacker move from one scene to the next, rondomly coming and going into one another's lives. To achieve this Linklater used a series of linear vignettes.
This movie adresses a lot of social issues during the 90's as i said before includ9ing the growing drug problems on the streets of Texas, the green house effect, and also the mentally unstable. It also holding true for current issues in the U.S. today.
Murder and death are also themes frequently confronted in this film.
A quote that was repeated too many times by a wacko waitress;
"You should quit tramatizing women with sexual intercorse. I should know. I am a medical doctor!!!"
'Scanner Darkly'...weird. One thing I can tell that one thing Richard Linklater likes to do to his audience is to really get them thinking. With 'Slackers' and 'A Scanner Darkly', you have to know what is going on yet also use a bit of your own imagination in comprehend what's going on.
A reoccuring theme I have seen in Richard Linklater's films is the use and effects of drugs. Some people might think that he trying to make drugs seem "cool", but really he is just painting a picture of reality. Drugs & addition are a part of our society, so why bother covering it up? In 'A Scanner Darkly', the whole film is about how the addiction of Substance D has become an epademic. The other intresting thing about 'A Scanner Darkly' is that it's set during 2013(7 years a head of when the film was released in 2006) which makes you wonder if something like a drug addiction epidemic could happen that quickyl.
The film is based on Philip K. Dick's novel, but I think Linklater must of really believed in the plot of Dick's novel and can clearly see the easy and consuming addictions of our world. He makes sure that people can't avoide the subject of elicite drugs and how they can be fun, but can easily consume one's life.
did you guys pay attention to the guy in the begining of the film who was freaking out about the "bugs"... I kinda of thought he looked like slater from 'Dazed and Confused' and thought maybe the actors just looked the same... but it's actually the same actor, Rory Cochrane! I thought this was intresting that Rory showed up in one of Linklater's films as a drug fiend, kind of like Slater.
Like I said before, I don't think Linklater tried to make drugs glamorized, he is just showing us reality of using drugs. In the past 3 movies we've watched by Linklater, they always seems to be that one character who has that hippie "i don't care what anyone thinkgs" attitude. For example, Slater in 'Dazed and Confused', the blonde chick in 'Slackers' who tried to sell some of Madona's pubic hair, and Charles Freck who was the guy freaking out about the bugs in 'A Scanner Darkly'.
'A Scanner Darkly' was a very powerful movie in my opinion. Unlike many of Richard Linklater's other films this one showed the very dark side of drug usage. In this film the whole world had basically gone to shit and was a Substance D crazed society. Even the people who were supposed to be treating them, were actually taking these brain dead people and using them to farm more of the drug. In my opinion this film is kind of a culmination of the others that Linklater has done. In his other films he shows how much fun drugs can be, he may make the people look stupid, but in no way does he make it look as severe and dirty as he does in this film. The impression you get from the moment the film starts with a drugged up man scratching thousands of bugs off of him, is one of extreme discomfort. I think that Linklater has shown all these at least semi good things about drugs and now is trying to show his audience what he's been keeping from us; the fact that this lifestyle is not something anyone would wish for themselves.
One thing I noticed about Linklater's films is that he always has these characters with extreme views on the world and on life. People who start off with normal comments about a little everyday thing and turn it into this huge conversation about really deep things, that often don't make sense to the audience. While watching his movies I find I have to pay very close attention to the wording of things and to the conversations because there is so much meaning and so much going on in just one little part. This is especially the case in both this last movie, 'A Scanner Darkly' and the previous one, 'Slacker'. In 'A Scanner Darkly' one thing that is very interesting is the animation of it. It's hard to describe but basically the real actors are turned into more of a cartoon. The characters tend to shake and twitch randomly and often seem to be floating above where they should be. This helps make the audience almost feel strange watching it. Because you know the characters are high, and it makes you feel like you're seeing how they're seeing. Which is really powerful for the whole plot of the film because you feel like you're in the story. I think it's a great way of doing animation, particularly for this film.
I agree that Linklater had a very different approach on the plot of this film, not glamorizing the use of drugs or its effects like he had done in previous films we have watched like Dazed and Confused and Slacker. And just as Claire had said, I noticed that the character in the opening scene was none other than Slater from Dazed and Confused. I was excited to see a familiar face but was immediately horrified to see little green alien cockroaches crawling through his hair and clothes. I think Linklater may have chosen the main character to be a cop on the job was to enforce the idea into viewers that addiction can happen to anyone. The character becomes addicted to “Substance D” while working on a drug busting case and ends up losing his mind to the battle against drugs and addiction. I have another theory that Linklater chose to invent his own fictional drug to base the plot of the movie on instead of a commonly used drug on the street, because he didn’t want to catorgorize the addict or the potential viewer. Substance D is broad, meaning basically any drug on the street. His point was to indicate to viewers during the scenes where the main character is being checked by two doctors, and they don’t have the answers to what possible side effects or potential long term effects are to the unknown drug, they were almost encouraging him to continue his use. So I thought that was a statement on many of the pharmaceuticals and drugs that are handed out at the hospitals, everyone is targeted and has the potential to become an addict.
This film was loaded to say the least, touching upon some very heavy topics of the time and even to current date. It was a film that I really had to pay close attention to, to completely grasp the concept. It seemed as though Linklater took a totally different approach to A Scanner Darkly as compared to the other two films we watched this quarter, the film had a lot less nondiegetic music, and it didn’t take course over the length of a single day. In a Scanner Darkly the plot follows a nark from the beginning of his addiction to Substance D, to him basically being admitted to a mental ward and spending the rest of his days farming the very drug that left him brain dead. A reoccurring theme that I’ve noticed as well is that Richard Linklater’s plot develops around the drug scene and issues. I agree with Alana that Linklater’s use of animation in the film was awesome! I haven’t seen a movie like it; it really made the viewer feel as though they were looking through the eyes of the Substance D abusers. It kind of made my stomach hurt after awhile from all of the shaking, it was comparable to the Blair Witch Project. It wasn’t a very optimistic ending either, with betrayal, and the main character being put in an institution for the abuse of the potent drug, Substance D, and then the last scene where you see him (by government force), fertilizing a huge field of the little blue flowers (known also as Substance D).
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I think one of the most important scenes in 'Dazed and Confused' was when Randall (or "Pink" Floyd) and his friends got caught for trespassing on the football field and Randall ends up having to talk with his football coach. This is importance because in the beginning on the film each football player on the high school team was given a consent form that must be signed to show that they will not engage in any illegal activities or use alcohol/illegal substances during the summer and throughout the football season. Randall, the quarter back, objects to signing this form and is constantly bombarded to sign it for the team's,the town', and his future's sake. Even though Randall has many reasons to sign the consent form, he doesn't see it as doing any good for himself because all he really wants to do before he grows up is to have as much fun as he can and do what he wants to do without anyone trying to run his life. Randall and the coach’s talk shows how serious that Randall is about being able to make decisions for himself and do what he wants to do. The coach talks about how everyone is depending on Randall to sign that form and what a disappointment it would be if he gave up football just because of this form; but Randall reassures the coach by telling him he will play football next year, but he would never sign that form. At that point, it is the end of hearing about the consent form and when summer truly begins for Randall.
"I think they're just worried that some of us are having too good a time"- Randall
'Dazed and Confused'(1993)
Claire Vandrovec 6th hour
Many of the movies that Richard Linklater has directed, including 'Dazed and Confused', take place during one twenty four hour period. Dazed and Confused depicts several groups of teenagers on the last day of school in 1976. Between getting caught trespassing onto a football field and the climatic kegger hidden in a local forest of Texas (another element common in Linklater's works), he achieves keeping his audience's attention by his use of non diegetic sound. In between scenes, switching from different friend groups and characters, Linklater fills the gap with popular music common to the 1970's time period, like Alice Cooper's "School's out". A school bell rings, on the last day of school 1976, letting out a wave of relieved and excited kids- a perfect match for Cooper's song; I liked how it fit the context/plot of the film! The song also foreshadows some of the mischief and trouble that those very same kids would run into later in the film. Like as Claire pointed out, Randall's objection to the pledge to abstain from illegal activity and his ultimate run in with his coach after getting caught for trespassing formed good characterization and also fit the song well.
A scene that I felt was really important aswell, was the final shot of the main characters; Pink, David, Ron and Simone driving down a highway on their way to buy Aerosmith tickets. This is right after the part that Claire described in which Randall "Pink" Floyd throw's the pledge into Coach Conrad's face, declaring that he would only play football on his own terms. The last scene, where they are driving off down the highway is accompanied by the non diegetic sound of Aerosmith's "Slow Ride", which is the concert they are set on purchasing tickets to. The song is also played in the opening scene as Pink and the gang arrive at school. I thought Richard Linklater's use of sound in Dazed and Confused reflected the time period very well, and added for smooth transistions between scenes.
'Slacker' was a different movie...We kind of expect a movie to make sense and to have a specific plot, but this movie leads the audience all around Austin, Texas and connects stories and lives of others by the starting of a simple conversation or a person walking by. Even though the film was different from what I normally watch, I liked the whole setting and idea of the film. This multiple stories are shown through out an entire 24 hour period, which was also done in Linklater's 'Dazed and Confused'.
The thing I like most about this film is that almost everyone has had the thought of when walking by someone and wondering what they were going to do that day, or who they person is, ect. Linklater was able to take those questions and curiosities of the mysteries of others lives and formed them into a comical, deep and philisophical film about youth, the government, and life in general.
Claire Vandrovec
One of my favorite scenes in 'Slacker' was when the 3 men go to the bridge with a typewriter, a book and... ( I FORGOT THE OTHER ITEM!) Anyways, the items belonged to the woman who screwed over one of the men, and his friends and him were going to throw the items into the river/creek. The reason why I liked this scene was because I've always seen girls do stuff like this in real life(LIKE ME! haha) or in movies, but I've never seen guys do something like that to get over someone. I know though stuff like that probably does happen for boys too. Heart break happens to everyone, and it's an important thing to experience in our lives (especially as a teenager and through our early adult lives) because then we can recognize the person who we are truly meant to be with.
I like that Linklater was able to incourparate all spectroms on the ideas of love and romance, such as this particular scene and the couple who don't "get out much", and the guy picking up the 3 girls at the bar.
Claire V. 6th hour
I really enjoyed "Slacker" because it really showed many different aspects of how humans behave and different relationships, different personalities and different situations. It was basically a story that had no story, but was a collection of snip-its of many peoples summer day. I noticed, that each person had something different to say about life, and about the hardships going on in the world. Each person had a different perspective on things which is what made this movie so interesting. You could sit there and not know where you were going next and who you were going to follow next. When you are introduced to a new character you have no idea who you are going to be following or getting to know for the next ten minutes, you are given no explanation as to who they are and you have no idea what they are going to do. That's what makes this film so interesting.
Alanna Gonzales Hr.6
Yeah, Slacker was really odd and different as Claire said. It followed the same style as Dazed and Confused, following a day in the life of ordinary people, more specifically a younger more detached generation of Americans in Texas. The movie follows the length of a day (just like Dazed and Confused), starting out with the opening scene of Paul who is filmed in the opening scene gazing out a bus window. Something that I found rather interesting was that the director, Linklater, casted himself as the role of Paul. That amused me because I hadn’t expected the director to be so young looking! He sits rambling about reality to the taxi driver, Roy, using a metaphor referring the Wizard of Oz and the path’s that Dorthy could have taken, which I found particularly amusing.
I thought that the opening scenes of Paul on the bus and then getting into “Roy’s Taxi” were particularly important and a little humorous because the plot/story unwinds right as he gets out of the taxi and an old woman lays sprawled in the middle of the street with her groceries flung around her, victim of an obvious hit and run murder. What I found shocking and really set the tone of the film was the fact that none of the pedestrians seemed too throttled or shaken at the sight of her dead body. A sleazy man who stops because of the road obstruction of her body; jumps out of his car annoyed and doesn’t even investigate the situation. He instead proceeds to flirt with a jogger, who doesn’t seem upset by the body at her feet; she continues to bounce up and down insistent on continuing her exercise.
I believe this movie has a lot to say about American Society during the 1990s, and the youth of America’s lack of ambition and their detachment from life, family, culture, and politics.
I also thought that it was really interesting that Paul doesn't tell anyone that he is leaving and all he leaves behind is a symolic stack of postcards in the middle of his empty room. He describes his boring and monotinous life, a message to the people he left behind.
Something that i found particularly humorous was that girl (who reminded me completely of Slater from "Dazed and Confused"), was trying to sell Madonna's pap smear. ew!
The characters from Slacker move from one scene to the next, rondomly coming and going into one another's lives. To achieve this Linklater used a series of linear vignettes.
This movie adresses a lot of social issues during the 90's as i said before includ9ing the growing drug problems on the streets of Texas, the green house effect, and also the mentally unstable. It also holding true for current issues in the U.S. today.
Murder and death are also themes frequently confronted in this film.
A quote that was repeated too many times by a wacko waitress;
"You should quit tramatizing women with sexual intercorse. I should know. I am a medical doctor!!!"
I just thought it was really random and funny.
'Scanner Darkly'...weird. One thing I can tell that one thing Richard Linklater likes to do to his audience is to really get them thinking. With 'Slackers' and 'A Scanner Darkly', you have to know what is going on yet also use a bit of your own imagination in comprehend what's going on.
A reoccuring theme I have seen in Richard Linklater's films is the use and effects of drugs. Some people might think that he trying to make drugs seem "cool", but really he is just painting a picture of reality. Drugs & addition are a part of our society, so why bother covering it up? In 'A Scanner Darkly', the whole film is about how the addiction of Substance D has become an epademic. The other intresting thing about 'A Scanner Darkly' is that it's set during 2013(7 years a head of when the film was released in 2006) which makes you wonder if something like a drug addiction epidemic could happen that quickyl.
The film is based on Philip K. Dick's novel, but I think Linklater must of really believed in the plot of Dick's novel and can clearly see the easy and consuming addictions of our world. He makes sure that people can't avoide the subject of elicite drugs and how they can be fun, but can easily consume one's life.
Claire V.
did you guys pay attention to the guy in the begining of the film who was freaking out about the "bugs"... I kinda of thought he looked like slater from 'Dazed and Confused' and thought maybe the actors just looked the same... but it's actually the same actor, Rory Cochrane! I thought this was intresting that Rory showed up in one of Linklater's films as a drug fiend, kind of like Slater.
Like I said before, I don't think Linklater tried to make drugs glamorized, he is just showing us reality of using drugs. In the past 3 movies we've watched by Linklater, they always seems to be that one character who has that hippie "i don't care what anyone thinkgs" attitude. For example, Slater in 'Dazed and Confused', the blonde chick in 'Slackers' who tried to sell some of Madona's pubic hair, and Charles Freck who was the guy freaking out about the bugs in 'A Scanner Darkly'.
Claire V.
'A Scanner Darkly' was a very powerful movie in my opinion. Unlike many of Richard Linklater's other films this one showed the very dark side of drug usage. In this film the whole world had basically gone to shit and was a Substance D crazed society. Even the people who were supposed to be treating them, were actually taking these brain dead people and using them to farm more of the drug. In my opinion this film is kind of a culmination of the others that Linklater has done. In his other films he shows how much fun drugs can be, he may make the people look stupid, but in no way does he make it look as severe and dirty as he does in this film. The impression you get from the moment the film starts with a drugged up man scratching thousands of bugs off of him, is one of extreme discomfort. I think that Linklater has shown all these at least semi good things about drugs and now is trying to show his audience what he's been keeping from us; the fact that this lifestyle is not something anyone would wish for themselves.
One thing I noticed about Linklater's films is that he always has these characters with extreme views on the world and on life. People who start off with normal comments about a little everyday thing and turn it into this huge conversation about really deep things, that often don't make sense to the audience. While watching his movies I find I have to pay very close attention to the wording of things and to the conversations because there is so much meaning and so much going on in just one little part. This is especially the case in both this last movie, 'A Scanner Darkly' and the previous one, 'Slacker'.
In 'A Scanner Darkly' one thing that is very interesting is the animation of it. It's hard to describe but basically the real actors are turned into more of a cartoon. The characters tend to shake and twitch randomly and often seem to be floating above where they should be. This helps make the audience almost feel strange watching it. Because you know the characters are high, and it makes you feel like you're seeing how they're seeing. Which is really powerful for the whole plot of the film because you feel like you're in the story. I think it's a great way of doing animation, particularly for this film.
I agree that Linklater had a very different approach on the plot of this film, not glamorizing the use of drugs or its effects like he had done in previous films we have watched like Dazed and Confused and Slacker. And just as Claire had said, I noticed that the character in the opening scene was none other than Slater from Dazed and Confused. I was excited to see a familiar face but was immediately horrified to see little green alien cockroaches crawling through his hair and clothes. I think Linklater may have chosen the main character to be a cop on the job was to enforce the idea into viewers that addiction can happen to anyone. The character becomes addicted to “Substance D” while working on a drug busting case and ends up losing his mind to the battle against drugs and addiction. I have another theory that Linklater chose to invent his own fictional drug to base the plot of the movie on instead of a commonly used drug on the street, because he didn’t want to catorgorize the addict or the potential viewer. Substance D is broad, meaning basically any drug on the street. His point was to indicate to viewers during the scenes where the main character is being checked by two doctors, and they don’t have the answers to what possible side effects or potential long term effects are to the unknown drug, they were almost encouraging him to continue his use. So I thought that was a statement on many of the pharmaceuticals and drugs that are handed out at the hospitals, everyone is targeted and has the potential to become an addict.
This film was loaded to say the least, touching upon some very heavy topics of the time and even to current date. It was a film that I really had to pay close attention to, to completely grasp the concept. It seemed as though Linklater took a totally different approach to A Scanner Darkly as compared to the other two films we watched this quarter, the film had a lot less nondiegetic music, and it didn’t take course over the length of a single day. In a Scanner Darkly the plot follows a nark from the beginning of his addiction to Substance D, to him basically being admitted to a mental ward and spending the rest of his days farming the very drug that left him brain dead. A reoccurring theme that I’ve noticed as well is that Richard Linklater’s plot develops around the drug scene and issues.
I agree with Alana that Linklater’s use of animation in the film was awesome! I haven’t seen a movie like it; it really made the viewer feel as though they were looking through the eyes of the Substance D abusers. It kind of made my stomach hurt after awhile from all of the shaking, it was comparable to the Blair Witch Project. It wasn’t a very optimistic ending either, with betrayal, and the main character being put in an institution for the abuse of the potent drug, Substance D, and then the last scene where you see him (by government force), fertilizing a huge field of the little blue flowers (known also as Substance D).
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