Analysis of The Boat That Rocked

The Target audience for the film is quite wide, I would say it is for teenagers in Britain however there will be many older people willing to see this film from the 60's as that was the time they were teenagers. The fact that the film is a Richard Curtis film will also widen the target audience as he has been writing films for years now and people who are familiar with his films will wish to see them.

The film uses stereotypes to gain the audience it wants to get, people wouldn't go and see the film unless there were characters they can relate to. Nick Frosts Character for example is a stereotype of the "average Joe" his character is called Dave and is somebody that most people would recognise we see him as the slob, lazy and fat. British actors that we recognise such as Bill Nighy will also influence us to go and see the film as he is commonly used in Curtis films.
Gemma Arterton is a principal stereotype, she plays a character named Desiree which is exactly what her character is, desirable, she represents females as sex objects, they only come onto the boat for party's. Dave and Desiree are very British, Dave has a very Cockney accent and Desiree a very upper class one, they both dress British (for the 60's) and so the audience feels comfortable watching them.

Richard Curtis and the team can be said to be appealing to the mythological tendecies of the audience.