3D's influence on cinema: Revision

Blockbusters Revision

Video Nasties Revision

http://www.bbfc.co.uk/education-resources/student-guide/legislation/video-recordings-act

Props:

• 1950s dress
• Baseball jackets 
• Lab coat 
• News report 
• Red lipstick 
• Curly hair 
• Quiff hair for boys
• Moustache
• Glasses
• Guns
• Army uniform
• Army tanks 
• Spagetti 
• Toy soliders 

Setting:

• Woods
• Office 
• Lab

Revision: MACRO: V for Vendetta & Children of Men

How are different groups in society represented in the films you have studied?

• Masculine - hyper masculinity in both films - lack of infertility - phallic imagery
• Feminine - yonic imagery - rose in V for Vendetta - themes of birthing/rebirthing - nature - lack of nature in both films 
• Ethnicity 
• Sexuality - Valerie, Diestrich, Evie being over sexualised 
• Nation/UK - immigrants - link to ethnicity - UK represented as totalitarian, racist state = a warning/realism of what is going to happen if we do not put a change to our current values - Nazi, fascist values 

V for Vendetta written as if Germany won WWII 

Narrative: 

• Stock characters: V - Hero/villain = hybrid = subverting the typical conventions of narrative - people are not set character types = realism - the messages of the film become more relatable to the audience, can link to their own situations - is V actually a hero - one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist. - Questions the simplicity of film narrative = messages = questioning what you are told (by your government or film industry) 
• Resolution : Both clouded resolutions - allows the audience to decide / interpret the ending themselves 

To what extent are these films sci fi ? = realism factor - relatable to the audience, messages and values become more coherent in the film 

Genre: 

• Conventions - sci fi - aliens / lazers / technology 
• Stock characters - typical characters picked from a shelf - stereotypical - hero, villain, etc 

Style:

• Realism ( in terms of filming) : Children of Men - long takes = documentary style 
• Comic book style :  V for Vendetta - taken originally from comic book 
• Film Noir : Dark, shading filming linked with narrative / mysterious angles - "Chiaosuro" = low key lighting and shadows. V for Vendetta uses film noir in a chiaosuro style. 
• V tries to make you think through the stereotypical Hollywood film - broadens the audience, etc. 
• Both films are presenting a warning to the audience, however Children of Men conveys the warning clearly through a realistic style, whereas V for Vendetta incorporates a warning through the typical Hollywood film = giving meaning to typical empty blockbusters. 

Themes:

• Dystopia 
• Oppression - homosexuals / immigrants / women / curfews / cctv / government control, etc link to religion = government control 
• Revolution/terrorism - one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist 
• Religion 
• War 
• Infertility - link to oedipal complex - lack of parental roles - brought this upon ourselves - pollutions etc, or spirtual punishment
• Oedipal Complex - Lack of parental roles - Evie and Diestrich / Theo and Jasper - both father figures die after the protagonists have fulfilled motivation / parental figure role has been fulfilled = death 
• Survival 
• Totalitarian government / fascism - Nazi Germany state / fascist / Sutler being saluted / death camp style / lined up and killed, in Children of Men. 
• Birthing - rebirth - God is in the Rain scene - V for Vendetta / Children of Men - Kee gives birth scene - new generation = installs a new hope and survival / motivation 

V for Vendetta is simplistic, whilst Children of Men leaves you with questions. Requires us not to think.