D Group Film Section C Narrative by Stuart https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30 Made with joy en-us 2017-05-08 09:48:50 UTC 2023-06-24 03:15:51 UTC hello@padlet.com saulknight https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170462489 Both films have a non-linear narrative as they both have flash backs

Q. What do the flashbacks do? What purpose do they serve?

They provide exposition to the narrative GOOD ;-)

]]> 2017-05-08 09:54:11 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170462489 saulknight https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170462652 Both films follow a conventional Hollywood narrative apart from when the hero dies.

Q. What term describes a convention is broken?]]> 2017-05-08 09:55:22 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170462652 ZaraElisabethxx https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170462688 Both films share the same cause and effect. The characters(Neville) have similar desires and needs. But Heston's desire is to kill and Smith's to cure but they both wish to survive]]> 2017-05-08 09:55:39 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170462688 saulknight https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170462931 Both films follow Todorov's circular narrative theory.

Q What does that mean though?

That in this respect if conforms to the classical Hollywood narrative convention

Q. Which is?]]> 2017-05-08 09:57:40 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170462931 saulknight https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170463060 Both films mainly feature restricted narration.

Q - What is a restricted narration.
Q How does it work in the case of our films?]]> 2017-05-08 09:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170463060 saulknight https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170463238 Both films use epistolary narration in the form of Will Smith's blogs and Charlton Heston's talking box (Dictaphone) . This may be intertextual reference to the original Dracula novel by Richard Matheson 

Good. 
Q. How was the content delivered in BS Dracula?]]> 2017-05-08 10:00:12 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170463238 https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170463365 Both of the films we have studied are adaptations of "The Last Man on Earth" but contextually different because of the times they where created, The Omega Man (1971) carrying communism themes while I Am Legend (2007) is centered around germ warfare]]> 2017-05-08 10:01:20 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170463365 Q - What events were happening at the time the Novella was written - what fears did the Vampires represent? stuart_grenville_price https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170463411 2017-05-08 10:01:51 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170463411 ZaraElisabethxx https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170463484 The original book Dracula, released in 1897,  inspired the source material for our case study films.

The original written story, I am Legend, and the first filmed version of the story (The Last Man on Earth) contained what Vampire iconography?

]]> 2017-05-08 10:02:26 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170463484 jenw5799 https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170463548 The vampires represent a fear of the unknown and xenophobia, in the omega man they represent a fear of communism but in I am ledgend they represent a fear of terrorists]]> 2017-05-08 10:03:02 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170463548 niamhloftus https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170463752 Subverting genre conventions

Q When, where, how?]]> 2017-05-08 10:04:30 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170463752 ZaraElisabethxx https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170463904 Omega=Last]]> 2017-05-08 10:05:46 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170463904 saulknight https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170464258 Both films use binary oppositions (Levi Strauss) to propel narrative

Q List 5 to 10 Binary Opposites in either film.
Science vs religion
Determination vs giving up
Dog vs evil dog
Light vs dark
Compassion vs violence
Life vs death

]]> 2017-05-08 10:08:21 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170464258 The both have a classic Hollywood narrative because it has a start, middle and an end it also relies on cause and effect logic and by editing it orientates the audience. ZaraElisabethxx https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170464295 2017-05-08 10:08:36 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170464295 saulknight https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170464433 I am legend uses enigma codes well in the expositional scene when rn is sleeping in the bath tub as we hear the darkseekers  but cannot see them. The audience wants to know what creatures are making these noises]]> 2017-05-08 10:09:27 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170464433 ZaraElisabethxx https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170464761 If you get an A in the exam you are a...]]> 2017-05-08 10:11:49 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170464761 saulknight https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170464905 I am legend reflects the insecurity in America following the 9/11 attacks. 2007 could be seen as a fin de siecle

Q. Check spelling - of last term/theme]]> 2017-05-08 10:13:09 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170464905 https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170465094 IAL has religious contexts shown through the image of a butterfly subtly placed into shots of the film]]> 2017-05-08 10:14:26 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170465094 https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170465304 Restricted Narration is where the story is narrated from the viewpoint of one character, so we are seeing the story through "their eyes"]]> 2017-05-08 10:16:16 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170465304 ZaraElisabethxx https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170465308 Ethan in a FOIL character who contrasts Anna and shows that she can be a good mother!

]]> 2017-05-08 10:16:17 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170465308 jenw5799 https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170465500 Anna is a mammy character, she looks after Ethan who is a white child, while Lisa is seen as more of a ... I can't remember what her character type is called someone help

]]> 2017-05-08 10:17:38 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170465500 IAL is a dystopia Future ZaraElisabethxx https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170465944 2017-05-08 10:21:01 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170465944 jenw5799 https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170466225 The omega man has elements of a blaxploitation movie, this is because these were the most popular kind of movies at the time this movie was made so this brought in a larger audienc]]> 2017-05-08 10:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170466225 saulknight https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170466566 Lisa from TOM could be seen as an intertextual poach from the blaxploitation movement and it will draw in fans from the v popular blaxploitation movement]]> 2017-05-08 10:25:51 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170466566 jenw5799 https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170467021 In the bible Mathias was a witness to all Jesus' miracles and Zachary betrayed Jesus, this could relate to at the ending scene of the omega man where Zachary turns back to the 'old ways' and uses guns to try and hurt Robert neville]]> 2017-05-08 10:30:01 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170467021 jenw5799 https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170468324 Bob Marley was a born again Christian and so was Robert Neville in I am ledgend ]]> 2017-05-08 10:38:39 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170468324 jenw5799 https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170469593 The butterfly symbolises God and pops up a lot in I am ledgend ]]> 2017-05-08 10:47:08 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170469593 saulknight https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170469606 Haratio Alger myth is the myth that any white male can succeed with enough determination. It relys on the class system as working class men want to aspire to be middle class. RN in both films is a virologist, a colonel and in ial he is a farther and a husband too]]> 2017-05-08 10:47:16 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170469606 https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170469863 You taking song requests]]> 2017-05-08 10:48:33 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170469863 jenw5799 https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170470447 Dark seekers are sentient beings #darkseekerlivesmatter]]> 2017-05-08 10:51:37 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170470447 IAL suggests a fear post 9/11 - how? https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170470696 2017-05-08 10:53:25 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170470696 What does RN use (In IAL) to attract a Darkseeker into his trap to try out an experimental vaccine? https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170470780
Allusion or intertextual to what texts or genre?]]> 2017-05-08 10:54:07 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170470780 jenw5799 https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170471688 Hegemonic masculinity

Will smith- muscular and not hairy?? - beauty standards today

Charlton Heston- hairy and got wide shoulders - beast standards inthe  1970s 

Both seen at "the perfect man" at the time the movie was released]]> 2017-05-08 11:01:00 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170471688 saulknight https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170471745 Will smith presents a symbol of hegemonic masculine as he's piff ]]> 2017-05-08 11:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170471745 Do we see and 'end of Capitalism' - referenced? Another Fin de Siecle theme https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170472024 2017-05-08 11:03:28 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170472024 jenw5799 https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170472517 Aerial veil or gods view as we see Robert Neville driving through the streets in the opening scenes of the movies]]> 2017-05-08 11:07:38 UTC https://padlet.com/stuart_grenville_price/c1uz0sheoz30/wish/170472517