Themes of CoM

Micro analysis 

Stick characters

Casting

Visually constructed - casting & stock characters

Colin Firth and High Grant aren't butch - Bridget Jones isn't a skinny bitch

Look at the casting and stock character

Genre - thrillers

Narrative - follows the dude in CoM

Messages - bad stuff will happen if we let it

Comparative points so far:

* Themes 

• dystopian future - different themes: war & dictatorship

-Style

• CoM = realistic

• V = more like a comic book

-Reason

• CoM = shot like a documentary & using relatable topics - a warning to the audience - and the style makes it more realistic

• V = a dude in a mask with super powers saving people doesn't seem realistic (genre)

* Genre (video essay)

• Although they are both thrillers and have similar themes, V has elements of a comic book film and CoM is a thriller

• Both sci-fi films (sub genre is dystopian sci-fi) - do they conform to a sci-fi film? Which one is more of a sci-fi? 

     • V has super powers from science

     • CoM - more modern technology - set in a time when people are infertile (takes a while)

- Has to be set in the future because it is a warning (message) 

* Narrative

• Neither film follows classical Hollywood narrative

- CoM - the film is not resolved 

- V - does have a revolution - not CHN because V does not have 'the hero's journey' - he is a terrorist and a freedom fighter - killing people and manipulating people ~ typical of villains 

     - Evey does follow the hero's journey, sets up as CHN - makes it more interesting for the audience- thriller form and so has to throw with the audience - subverts (undermine or rebel again) expectations ~ narrative reflects the themes of the films / the way it tells the story reflects how the character feels

Because it's the same stuff but applied to different films

>Representation of men, women, social class & national identity

Frued - didn't like sex, 1930's, Uncle of Eddie Bernays - made PR, believed that man is animalistic and if society doesn't manage these desires, the world would fall apart - cannot be trusted to govern ourselves because we can't control ourselves 

Woman smoking cigarettes - female empowerment 

January 2012

MACRO representation apply to CoM and 

England turns into it's most opposite - Germany

Start of the revolution

Big screen - over compensating

V on the screen

Kid asked Dad first

Fugee face

Baton - symbol of masculinity

Birthing scene

He keeps telling her what to do

He is in her vagina

Which emotional instinct is this designed to appeal to?

Hope, fear

A bank