Peter Cattaneo’s comedy film “The Full Monty” is set in the once thriving manufacturing town of Sheffield, England in the late 1970’s where the economy has dropped and unemployment in the steel industry is high due to automation. This has forced many men to sit around job club where there are no jobs to be found and avoid child support payments that they cannot afford. “The Full Monty” follows the lives of 6 unemployed steelworkers who are inspired when the “Chippendales” come to town. Peter Cattaneo’s film was one of the best films of its time and was awarded an Oscar for best music and an award for best film in 1998 with the film also being awarded and nominated for several other awards.
After losing his job at the steel factory, Gaz a divorced
This Screenplay is an appropriation of the entire short story Big World by Tim Winton in his book The Turning. The characters, setting and storyline have been maintained in this appropriation with explicit quote’s from the original text. However, flashbacks included in the original text is not included because of the complexity of portraying a flashback in a screenplay effectively and it’s lengthening effect. Stereotypical Australian language, swearing and behaviour and comments typical to teenagers characterises Biggie and Kevin, however, it also reveals that the Screenplay is directed at a teenage audiences, who are themselves entering into the ‘big world’. The introducing setting description includes a ‘WOMAN standing on a headland looking
In 2010, a poll taken from over 1000 people named Darryl Kerrigan of The Castle as the favourite Australian movie character with 23% of the votes (Hayes, 2010). The accolades kept flowing for the 1997 film, with over a third of those interviewed thinking The Castle best represents the real Australian culture (Hayes, 2010). These results raise an interesting question. How does a film taken in 11 days with a budget of half a million dollars capture the hearts of more Australians than a Hollywood blockbuster? What is it about Darryl and his family, and the story of the Kerrigans that Australians can relate to?
Martin’s use of the environment to aid in the telling of the story, adds a deeper layer of comedy that only a man as gifted as he could every
He ultimately becomes a criminal with an old friend from prison. He however gets back up on his feet and gets a job at a meatpacking plant, and makes a steady life for himself. Of course that doesn’t last long though, he relapses once he see’s Ona’s boss again. He attacks him again and he end up paying all his saved up money to bail himself out of jail. He goes to a conference where there is this speaker who motivates him to get involved in the society, and he does just that.
TERM 4 ENGLISH ASSESSMENT: ORAL PRESENTATION HANNAH BAKER How is the viewer positioned with regards to issues of gender in the Australian film The Man from Snowy River? “One moment it 's paradise, the next it 's trying to kill you.” (The Man from Snowy River, 1982) Australia is an untameable land that most would not survive, however the quintessential Australian stereotypes thrive in this unforgiving environment.
“Cinderella Man”, directed by Ron Howard, takes a hasty plunge from a booming economy to a bombshell into the Great Depression; Jim Braddock the courageous boxer, persevered through the nations lowliest point. In the film the camera caught a glimpse of a newspaper front-page reading “Unemployment Hits Record 15 million Americas”. This exposed the American economy; nationalism is shown incongruently in the film “Rocky IV” where the Western/American society is captured as a world superpower, strong and confident on their ability, but in “Cinderella Man” citizens are portrayed as desperate and willing to beg for mercy. Storm clouds of economic and societal conditions were in full affect on how it sculpted the film’s path had a dramatic mark on
Whereas, Far From Heaven reverts this representation of the black male body onto the white male body, to conceptualises homosexual desire within the framework of a 1950’s melodrama. Although, Haynes remains to conventional 1950’s melodrama by fading out the sexual encounter between the men, arguably the audience is now positioned as Cathy, as she is unaware of Frank’s infidelity.
Throughout the eight short film’s the children are presented in an overtly sexualised manner, often appearing scantily clad. The films comedy is frequently derived through this, by contrasting the children’s innocence
Mise-en-scéne is crucial to classical Hollywood as it defined an era ‘that in its primary sense and effect, shows us something; it is a means of display. ' (Martin 2014, p.XV). Billy Wilder 's Sunset Boulevard (Wilder 1950) will be analysed and explored with its techniques and styles of mise-en-scéne and how this aspect of filmmaking establishes together as a cohesive whole with the narrative themes as classical Hollywood storytelling. Features of the film 's sense of space and time, setting, motifs, characters, and character goals will be explored and how they affect the characterisation, structure, and three-act organisation.
While Ruttman’s film is an attempt to convey the Vertov’s film is idealistic cinema as an instrument of truth Scenes of the documentary are intercut with scenes of the actual production. Capitalism breathes life into industrialization, and machines The city is awake before the people are. lions feeding beauty salon Vertov’s passion lay in the ability of the lens of a camera to combine an infinite amount of perspectives Vertov’s cinematic style portrays cinema as a socialistic ideal of an art form, as he shows Vertov used filmmaking as a tool in the construction of his socialist ideal of the world.
After he quit his job from is employers lack of loyalty, he wasn’t too pleased to have to go back and plead to get it back, but he needed to do it for his pregnant
He tries desperately to ask for his job back to no avail. Once he realizes that his former job is no longer an option, he turns towards illegal means of support. He then decides selling marijuana is not the answer and changes
Ridley Scott’s ‘female buddy movie’ Thelma and Louise centres around issues of male dominance and the freedom of release from society. Thelma (Geena Davis) and Louise (Susan Sarandon) are women suppressed by the men in their lives. They take a vacation to escape for a few days and after an attempted rape and murder they end up fugitives on the run for their lives. This unintended event ends up being for them the best adventure of their lives, as they are able to divest from the rules of society and become the independent women they are. By subverting the traditional role of gender in the genre, the film shows how feminism impacted the film industry by challenging Hollywood and the gendered myths and social patriarchy, providing women with a voice, and changing how spectators view how women are looked at through women’s eyes and their experiences.
Limited for most of the time to two sets, the film 's great strength is the interplay between the two leads, who play former spouses having a tough time remaining apart. It also boasts one of the blackest comedy situations ever, as a small-time loser finds himself up against city corruption and imminent execution. Clever, witty and extremely satisfying, this marvelous film is still achingly funny
(2012) As it was previously mentioned, Mr. Gerald is the only protagonist that had a high position in the society and that is the main reason why he did not want to tell his wife about losing the job. According to Warr, “a person, who is unemployed, may lose a socially accepted position, and the newly acquired position may widely be seen as inferior.” (1983) Furthermore, Shamir underlines the idea that unemployment can change the place in “ a social pyramid” causing a person to lose a self-esteem as well as a self-respect. (1986) However, Gerald is the only character in the film that is positive and believes everything will be fine, therefore he is constantly trying to make changes in