the place Beyond the pines

Gender representation

The male representation of this film is mainly as a sexual symbol, especially at the beginning of the trailer, the first shot that is seen is an extreme close you of ryan goslings chest and it focused on this defined abs. The following shots on from this include him with his top off or with a vest which shows of his muscular arms. Also with ryan and Bradley coopers shots there are a lot of close ups of their faces to show that they are attractive and in control. The men seen in the trailer are very manly men who are very buff and physically fit and in all scenes they are the ones in control as only two women are shown through out the whole clip so the town they are in is a very male dominating town. ryan character is represented as a hard man who's is potentially dangerous and doesn't obey by any ones but his rules, we get this impression from his vast amount of tattoos (especially the ones on his face) also how he is  always armed the first shot we see of him is him holding/ playing with a knife.
  The female representation is completely different to the males, both of the women shown have children so they are automatically represented as maternal and caring also they are very much controlled by the males and depend up on them, we see this when eva mendes' character found it difficult to raise her child alone and vulnerable we also see her getting married to a man who can help her and support her. this trailer also shows the women as being easily influenced by men an example of this would be how Eva's character takes the money from ryan's even though it is obvious it is stolen as ran is a kind of gangster who doesn't obey by the rules.

The Place Beyond the Pines - Official Trailer [HD]

analysis of sleepy hallow

we can apply the theory of propp to the film sleepy hallow, the villain is the older witch woman, the way she is talking to the girl about how she wants to cause death and destruction how she talks about how many people her herself has already killed and how she has manipulated peoples opinion of her. Also he was wearing al black which is a key connotation of a villain especially in older films which this is. This film also has another villain the head less rider as he is moving very fast and there’s a juncture position of when he is shown rather then when the witch is shown. also when both villains are in a shot with other actors they are seen in high angle/ low angle shots this makes the other actor feel intimidated and in less control as they have to look up at the villain and it also gives the sense of danger and intimidation. The hero of this clip is Johnny depps character as though out the beginning of the clip he is seen riding very fast through the wood to save the girl then when he arrives he is the one in control trying to get the children to safety. The princess in the clip is the little girl as she is the one who needs to be rescued and is helpless to saving her self.

In this clip there are many examples of binary opposition such as the obvious good verse evil, the heedless rider/which against Johnny depp and the children. There is also the light/dark all the shots in the beginning in the windmill are relatively light compared to the dark misty wood the headsman is riding through. there is the opposition of dead and alive, the headsmen is clearly dead due to the fact he doesn't have a head and Johnny depps character is alive as they are fearing and escaping death. Another would be old/young as the children are very young where as the headless man and the witch and the children are the representations of young

Analysis of james bond sky fall

we can apply Propp's theory to sky fall, the princes would be the girl who is tied up with the shot glass on her head as she is the one who is need of a hero and needs saving, the hero that would be saving her would be bond as he is unwilling to fire the gun in case he hits the girl ad he tries to save her. The blonde man is seen as the villain as he is the one who ties the girl up and wants to cause havoc and death. Another theory that links in to propp is strause's ideas of binary opposes, in this scene we have the representation of good verses evil
We can also apply todorov as there is equilibrium when the scene stars as the two men are walking up to where the tied up girl is, once the girl gets shot and killed this creates disequilibrium and the only way to reinstate it is for bond to get justice. Through out this scene we are overloaded with many enigma codes such as, who is the girl, is she just random or does she mean a lot to bond? Why is she tied up and why does she have to be killed surely bond would be in distress if he knew her and she was tied up with out having to kill her? The genre of this clip is action we can tell this by the usage of long shots to give us an idea of the scenery also the close up clips of the actors faces as they are very serious and there expression can give a lot of insight to the genre of the clip. also there is a lot of fighting which is very iconic to stereotypical action films again to link in with the fighting all the men in the scene are carrying guns, so even before the fighting starts we can tell this clip is going to be hostile and there are going to be many casualties and even deaths

thriller

Conventions Of Thriller Films from bobsled

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Conventions of action films from simsimma

Genre of my chosen texts

The black cauldron genre is fantasy how ever it also has traces of horror, the conventions of these genres that show in the film are low key lighting and dragging out the scenes which can been seen as horror also the non diegetic sounds change to increase the tension in the film especially in scenes when the 'villain' appears on the screen. many of the scenes have mist which is a very iconic part of very olden horror films. The conventions of the fantasy film are the opposite to the horror aspects, they is high key lighting to make the audience feel at ease and that nothing bad is going to happen. again the music changes through out the scenes that are seen to be fantasy and the music is more upbeat and relaxes the audience and instead of them expecting whats about to happen the audience just enjoys and watches it. morse conventions of this is their are fairies and aspects of magic which is a key element of fantasy films.

the dark knight rises genre is a thriller/ action film conventions of horror films are as followed, it mainly uses panning and tracking shots the first shot that was used in the film was a panning shot not focusing on any one just setting the scene. it also uses a lot of high and log angle shows this always shows the the audience who controls the scene and can make the audience fell important/the focus or can make them feel threatened and vulnerable. there are many jump cuts between scenes as this gives the scene of fast movement and its unpredictable what can happen. conventions of an action film is fighting, through al the whole film/trilogy of batman these is a lot of fighting. a key location of an action film is in a big city and batman fits this perfectly as the whole film is set in the fictional city gotham.