Sunday, 10 February 2013
Location report.
Corridors from an old work place of my Mum's in which is used as offices but can be used to show a dark prison corridor:
Outside a prison in Brixton (London):
Outside a prison in Brixton (London):
This is suitable for my film, as it is a dramatic looking prison and looks like it belongs in a council estate.
High rise flats in Brixton (London): These are suitable for my sequel as they look almost identical to the ones in the previous films and it has the ability to carry the story on through.
Creating an argument... Children of Men and V for Vendetta.
How to create an argument, explain, describe, analysis and compare.
Friday, 1 February 2013
Cara's Dialogue for the Sequel to Attack the Block
The dialogue in my sequel moves the story forward as it uses some elements from the first Attack the Block movie and this has been processed and progressed into something more mature than what the previous film was. Moses has now grown up and become a fatherly figure to two of the boys in the gang and this shows how the typical youth stereotypes can be challenged and how we contradict the way in which society thinks of youths. This evidently shows that it links with my macro study.
It still shows the relationship Moses has with the people he has been brought up with, even after being in prison for 5+ years.
To improve this I will need to look at the dialect in which the group use: Chav', gang-like, so I can get the story and dialogue rolling more freely into the next scene.
To what extent does V for Vendetta and Children of Men conform to film stereotypes and what messages are behind these representations?
The two films that I have
studied, V for Vendetta and Children of Men conform to the normal everyday film
stereotypes, however, they also go against them too. In both films the men seem
to act and the women become more of a sex object or a symbolism of the film.
For instance, Evey definitely comes across as the sex object of the film
because in the opening sequence (first scene), she appears to be dolling
herself up to go see a boss of hers, to obviously have intercourse. However,
whilst roaming around the streets in a red dress (which enhances our
realisation that she is in-fact going to her boss’ for that) she is going around
after curfew, and curfew in this film is an important factor. This is when she
comes across the finger men (police); also showing that she is a sex object.
However, in Children of Men, there isn’t a sex object as such. Theo (the main
protagonist) has his former wife who is featured in the first section as she
begs him for help, other than that, there is Kee. She is the pregnant woman who
Theo has to protect. She definitely isn’t a sex object, although, she could be
the symbol of the film. She is pregnant, the only pregnant woman to be known
about by a small amount of people, who needs to be taken to safety to ensure
that the human race leads on, as there hasn’t been a birth in eighteen years.
All in all, we notice that V for Vendetta does conform to the objection of
women and Children of Men doesn’t, because V actually features a sex object
whom is Evey.
Furthermore, both films feature a final girl. In Children of Men Kee is left at the end alongside her new born baby, however, there is no exact closure. Kee is basically left behind on this boat floating away as Theo dies on that same boat, how do we know whether she has survived and got to safety? We don’t, but she is still known as the final girl as she saves everyone who is fighting through the revolution as they all notice that she is in-fact brought life back to the human race and has signified that there is hope out there for all and infertility. Also in V for Vendetta Evey is the final girl because she completes V’s dying wish and takes it upon herself to blow up parliament and get hers, V’s and the public’s freedom. Oppressing the Government and securing them and ensuring that they will have their own rights. This shows that Evey is fearless and that she is the final girl. Overall, both Children of Men and V for Vendetta conform to the element in which is the final girl. They both have two females (also could be known as the underdogs of the movies because you’d have thought the man would’ve been the hero) alive at the end, saving and getting what the male originally wanted. Evey got the freedom for all and Kee helped make people realise that there is hope for all.
Thirdly, you can see hyper masculinity in V for Vendetta because he has immortal strengths; he uses his arms and upper body strength to fight off his ‘enemies’. He also uses knifes which could be known as a phallic symbol as this is an object that represents penetration, example, like V using a knife to show his male power. Take the scene where he kills Creedy underground, he uses upper body strength to hill him and uses knifes to kill the officers. In addition to this, in Children of Men, it doesn’t conform to hyper masculinity like V for Vendetta as there is no form of phallic symbols used, nor is there any male power shown. Theo is feminised as he runs and depends on the people in the revolution scene to keep him covered and out of harm’s way. He also cried once his former wife has died, hid himself behind a tree for a few seconds and then composed himself, this shows the typical male roles in films as he stops himself from crying and becomes less feminised. This also gets the message across to the male audience that it is okay to cry sometimes and show their feminised side. Seeing as this is typically what any girl would love for a man to be able to do, example be able to show their emotion. However, when he returns back and shakes the crying away, he becomes his masculine self again. Especially seeing as if other people were to see his reaction to this, they’d lose all faith in him. In the end of the scene and film, Kee is the final girl and saves the many people as they see her holding her new born. In the end, V for Vendetta does conform to the typical hyper masculinity theme, whereas Children of Men doesn’t, because there is no form of male power seen throughout the film.
There is also an aspect of being a motherly/nurtured figure (roles). In Children of Men there is a character known as Hippy Woman, she comes across as the motherly figure as she looks after Kee like her own. Kee is definitely a motherly figure in the film as he actually gives birth to her new born. Theo could be seen as a motherly figure as well as he is more feminised here, as in this scene he took on the role of the midwife (during the revolution). In V for Vendetta, Evey is also represented as a motherly figure as she takes on the lead role; she adores V and almost treats him like a childlike character at times. Gordon Dietrich becomes a motherly/fatherly figure towards Evey; take the scene in which he’s black bagged. He rein acts exactly what Evey’s mother did when she was taken by the Government. He can also be seen as a motherly figure as well, because of his sexuality, he is bisexual/guy who takes on a more feminised role. Overall, both films conform to having a motherly figure in them and show the audience that both men and woman share a feminine and masculine side to them.
To conclude, both films conform to the typical stereotypes of gender and let the audience interpret different points in different ways. It gets the message across that it’s okay for male characters to be more feminised and still be the ‘hero’ or ‘reluctant hero’. There’s both a positive and negative to this. Theo was firstly an alcoholic who leads to a normal stereotypical male in a film and V has hyper masculinity which is usually seen in a sci-fi/thriller. Both films reinforce positivity and negativity, because although Theo cries on the boat at the end because he’s dying, it still shows his masculinity because he is a leader and because he kept his role, his job of protecting Kee. The same goes for V for Vendetta; because V’s hyper masculinity led him to triumph as he led Evey to complete his job. Evey was inspired by V’s persistence which led to them reaching their goal, even though V died and Evey became the final girl.
Furthermore, both films feature a final girl. In Children of Men Kee is left at the end alongside her new born baby, however, there is no exact closure. Kee is basically left behind on this boat floating away as Theo dies on that same boat, how do we know whether she has survived and got to safety? We don’t, but she is still known as the final girl as she saves everyone who is fighting through the revolution as they all notice that she is in-fact brought life back to the human race and has signified that there is hope out there for all and infertility. Also in V for Vendetta Evey is the final girl because she completes V’s dying wish and takes it upon herself to blow up parliament and get hers, V’s and the public’s freedom. Oppressing the Government and securing them and ensuring that they will have their own rights. This shows that Evey is fearless and that she is the final girl. Overall, both Children of Men and V for Vendetta conform to the element in which is the final girl. They both have two females (also could be known as the underdogs of the movies because you’d have thought the man would’ve been the hero) alive at the end, saving and getting what the male originally wanted. Evey got the freedom for all and Kee helped make people realise that there is hope for all.
Thirdly, you can see hyper masculinity in V for Vendetta because he has immortal strengths; he uses his arms and upper body strength to fight off his ‘enemies’. He also uses knifes which could be known as a phallic symbol as this is an object that represents penetration, example, like V using a knife to show his male power. Take the scene where he kills Creedy underground, he uses upper body strength to hill him and uses knifes to kill the officers. In addition to this, in Children of Men, it doesn’t conform to hyper masculinity like V for Vendetta as there is no form of phallic symbols used, nor is there any male power shown. Theo is feminised as he runs and depends on the people in the revolution scene to keep him covered and out of harm’s way. He also cried once his former wife has died, hid himself behind a tree for a few seconds and then composed himself, this shows the typical male roles in films as he stops himself from crying and becomes less feminised. This also gets the message across to the male audience that it is okay to cry sometimes and show their feminised side. Seeing as this is typically what any girl would love for a man to be able to do, example be able to show their emotion. However, when he returns back and shakes the crying away, he becomes his masculine self again. Especially seeing as if other people were to see his reaction to this, they’d lose all faith in him. In the end of the scene and film, Kee is the final girl and saves the many people as they see her holding her new born. In the end, V for Vendetta does conform to the typical hyper masculinity theme, whereas Children of Men doesn’t, because there is no form of male power seen throughout the film.
There is also an aspect of being a motherly/nurtured figure (roles). In Children of Men there is a character known as Hippy Woman, she comes across as the motherly figure as she looks after Kee like her own. Kee is definitely a motherly figure in the film as he actually gives birth to her new born. Theo could be seen as a motherly figure as well as he is more feminised here, as in this scene he took on the role of the midwife (during the revolution). In V for Vendetta, Evey is also represented as a motherly figure as she takes on the lead role; she adores V and almost treats him like a childlike character at times. Gordon Dietrich becomes a motherly/fatherly figure towards Evey; take the scene in which he’s black bagged. He rein acts exactly what Evey’s mother did when she was taken by the Government. He can also be seen as a motherly figure as well, because of his sexuality, he is bisexual/guy who takes on a more feminised role. Overall, both films conform to having a motherly figure in them and show the audience that both men and woman share a feminine and masculine side to them.
To conclude, both films conform to the typical stereotypes of gender and let the audience interpret different points in different ways. It gets the message across that it’s okay for male characters to be more feminised and still be the ‘hero’ or ‘reluctant hero’. There’s both a positive and negative to this. Theo was firstly an alcoholic who leads to a normal stereotypical male in a film and V has hyper masculinity which is usually seen in a sci-fi/thriller. Both films reinforce positivity and negativity, because although Theo cries on the boat at the end because he’s dying, it still shows his masculinity because he is a leader and because he kept his role, his job of protecting Kee. The same goes for V for Vendetta; because V’s hyper masculinity led him to triumph as he led Evey to complete his job. Evey was inspired by V’s persistence which led to them reaching their goal, even though V died and Evey became the final girl.
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