Meme - Scream vs Scary Movie.

In Class we have being looking at Meme "An Idea or creative item that is passed on virally from person to person, to the point where lots of people know about it and are talking about it" this could be anything. In this case it is the mask from Scream. I think that meme can be used to describe the symbolic mask from scream (shown left) Scream is a horror movie in which a murderer uses the mask to conceal him self, in the film their are enormous amounts of people wearing the mark making it hard to tell who the murderer is. The mask being shown in large quantity's makes the audience uneasy, they recognise the mask and relate it to danger.
This classic mask comes from the painting Scream by Edward Munch (shown right)
which is parodies in lots of things e.g the Simpson's.
Scary movie is a Parody, it uses typical stereotypes and ideology's that audiences are used to seeing in film e.g Blonde ditzy woman and exaggerates them to the extreme.






The two trailers to compare. :D as you can see the second video is a complete parody

An example of post morderness

I love scrubs. And this is POST MODERN. Zack Braff looks at the screen ;) I love scrubs. Scrubs is very post modern in other ways to, we are often entering the world of J.D its is HYPEREAL.

The Coen Brother

The Big Lebowski

Post modernist elements: Man gets punched, day dreams and appears to be floating in the sky following a magic rug, a shot from within a bowling ball, camera spinning round and round the same elements are used in The Hudsucker Proxy, these dream-like sequences happen more than once. These techniques disorientates the viewer and makes them aware that they are watching a film. The use of an actor talking directly to the camera makes the audience again aware that they are watching a film.
Below is an extract from the film :D

Mo' Coan brothers

Blood Simple

Scared witless.

The Coen Brother

The hudsucker Proxy

Postmoderinist film by the Coan brothers. Starts Tim Robins. There are many things that make this film postmodern, one is the emphasis on characters, their clothing exaggerated everything is so clean it becomes hyper-reality. Another is that the film starts with the end, we know what is going to happen we just don't know how, the narration over the footage talks to us and tells us that we are being told a story, and then finally the narrator turns and talks directly to the audience breaking the 4th wall.

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.

Hot Fuzz

Helena and I have created a powerpoint presentation about the film Hot Fuzz. I feel that the presentaion has helped us learn more about the way british films are made.