Wednesday 27 April 2011

Action Adventure Notes

Explain the main features of action/adventure films and provide examples to support your ideas, referring to at least two action adventure films: -


  • Rush Hour
  • Hancock
Include:-
Representation
Institution
Media Language - Storyline and Plot, Structure, Oppositional Characters, Journey/Quest, Action Sequences. 

The main features of a typical Action Adventure film always will involve a hero and a villain. 

Rush Hour:- This film is about a young girl who gets kidnapped by a couple of guys, two police officers then get on the case to find her and are represented as 'Heroes'. They are both represented as good guys who are out to fight crime and evil. The Institution is New Line Cinema and Roger Bimbaum. The main characters are Jackie Chan and and Chris Tucker. With time running out they must join forces to catch the criminals and save the eleven year old chinese girl named Soo Yung. Both main characters carry a gun and ID cards which connotes power and heroism. They are represented in this way for the audience to feel afraid of them both as they have power and weapons which would scare people. The language used in this film is not standard english and does include a few swear words and slang which may not be suitable for the younger audience. Throughout the storyline, both characters go on a journey together to find out exactly where the girl is and are concerned about her safety which signifies that they are caring and hardworking. the villain phones up Soo's father to threaten him and say that they will kill his daughter if they do not give them money.

Hancock:- This film is about a hard-living superhero who is in a questionable relationship with his wife as she does not know that he is a under cover superhero till later on in the film. The institution is columbia Pictures, Relativity Media, Blue Light. The main characters in this film are Will Smith, Charlize Theron, and jason Bateman. The storyline is based on Hancock and how he becomes the most hated man in Los Angeles, even though he saved many peoples lives, he ruined a lot of peoples property and it costs the country millions. Hancock is extremely powerful and can destroy things with his bare hands. This connotes power and strength. He is represented in this way as he is both the hero of the country and the one everyone is afraid of. 

Sunday 3 April 2011

New Action Adventure Films

The Matrix:

Synopsis:

Thomas A. Anderson is a man living two lives. By day he is an average computer programmer and by night a malevolent hacker known as Neo. Neo has always questioned his reality but the truth is far beyond his imagination. Neo finds himself targeted by the police when he is contacted by Morpheus, a legendary computer hacker branded a terrorist by the government. Morpheus awakens Neo to the real world, a ravaged wasteland where most of humanity have been captured by a race of machines which live off of their body heat and imprison their minds within an artificial reality known as the Matrix. As a rebel against the machines, Neo must return to the Matrix and confront the agents, super powerful computer programs devoted to snuffing out Neo and the entire human rebellion.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133093/

Directors and writers: Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne and Carrie-Anne Moss.
Rating: 15
Duration: 136 minutes.
Released: 11th June 1999.