Mya Lambert Film Studies

Film Review The Breakfast club is a comedy and teen film made in 1985 and directed by john hughes. It features a group of teens who spend their saturday at school in detention, all of them having completely different personalities and following different high school cliques. In the opening scene it shows a series of clips of a high school, to introduce a setting. In a couple of the clips it shows property that has been vandalised, suggesting that its a public, middle class school. The camera then shifts to the front of a BMW, the camera slowly pans up to present a girl, Claire Standish, and her father sitting in the car, the use of the expensive car immediately gives us insight into her class and spoiled character she will be. Next we see a side close up of Claire's face to see her expression, which is upset and sulky, with her dad behind her. the use of the camera in this position presents her to look bigger than her dad and show that she overpowers him. Whereas in the next s...

Ralph and Get off my land Comparison. Ralph is a short film that features a young man who has travelled to france in search of his love interest, and focuses on the idea of isolation. Whereas Get off my land is a short film about a couple taking a hike through a woodland area, in which they come across some private land that they cannot cross, the genre being dark comedy. There are several points throughout Ralph that show the theme of isolation, starting from when he steps off the train at the beginning. There is a wide shot with ralph, our protagonist, standing in the middle with nobody standing on the platform next to him to show that he is all alone in this foreign country. This foreshadows the rest of the film. Throughout the whole film everyone, with the exception of Ralph, is speaking french, which is another way that he feels isolated from everyone else. There are also no subtitles to translate and so by doing this, the viewer also feels isolated. At the beginning of G...

Genre is a term that defines the characteristics and features of an art - categorising it based on these features. For example, romance is a genre in which it typically revolves around two people discovering each other and developing feelings for each other. Usually it ends with a happy ending, and leaves the viewer satisfied, however sometimes you find that there are other genres in the movie that paint the storyline and ending a different way. Take Romeo and Juliet for example, it is categorised as a tragedy as well as a romance, and so it ends with both protagonists dying. So sometimes a story will play out in a way that is not typical to its genre for and it does not have to follow a strict set of rules. Some genres of film gain more popularity than others; Action, romance, horror and documentaries are very popular genres of film. Action movies usually have a big budget, and so the movies come out looking amazing and having great storylines, which makes it so popular, as wel...