Brokeback mountain Case Study presentation

  

4.03 class work

"To see exotic Vietnam the jewel of south east Asia, to meet stimulated people of an ancient culture and kill them, i wanted to be the first kid on my block with a confirmed kill." ...

This shows the duality of man, it is used to reflect the inner confusion of the soilders throughout the film.Joker wanting to do good but often submitting to our carnal / animalistic desires to do so. 

Unclear motives with born to kill written on his helmet but a peace symbol on his jacket . This shows that joker is  still unclear weather he is with war or against it. 

This is the start showing them losing their identify by having their heads shaved this show that they are all equal. The directors can manipulate our emotions by showing us they are having their hair staved, we have sympathy for the characters.    

"Better you then me" stating that it is better that they died and he didn't

"What do I think with the Americans involvement in the war, well I think we should win"
This character throughout the film is shown as being very selfish. Only caring about himself in war. He is very bold character with his muscular arms out having the magazines around his neck to show he is ready to fight.
The is quote in the film about him "He will not be happy unless there are grenades thrown at him". This is saying that he wil not coupe outside of war. Also by the end of the film you could say that the characters are given an identity as they are being filmed alone with out anyone else in the shot. 

Reception Theory

Full Metal Jacket work set 26/2/14

The Full metal Jacket?

What does the title say to me as an audience member?

As an audience member the title message I got was that the Full Metal Jacket meant the bullets that the soldiers use was acting as a jacket to protect them. I also thought as well that it shows that if you work as a team you will succeed. From the beginning of the film I thought it meant that the men would protect each other like a jacket would protect you from the cold. Then Private Pile died my mind has changed as they took the mick out of him and blamed him for being a little different and sometimes finding things hard. When they bullied him with soap, this was proven that they didn’t really like him and wanted to show to him that they didn’t want him ion there team anymore.

The characters we are aligned with through out the film are private joker, who was made the superior officer, with the words Born to kill on his helmet. We are aligned with Private Groomer Pile, in the first few scenes as we are shown that he has a mental condition. But by the end of the film we are aligned with Private Joker, as he is in charge and gives his soldiers orders and then he is shot and the story changes. When some of the other officers are dying they don’t take as much time with them they do not try and save their lives. When joker is killed they try and save him show this shows that the main character in the story has been killed.

Alignment

Alignment. 
Alignment is the different ways that a film maker can align us or manipulate our emotional response. 
Alignment is the process of identification with something or someone. Have to look at the film though the characters eyes. 
The emotional impact of film frequently depends on spectator alignment with central characters. 

Cinematography - A CU positions the spectatorship closer to the character  
Sound - Certain sounds music are used to highlight and guide our responses
Themes and content - Depending on the subject matter of the film we can be easily manipulated if the issues portrayed resonate within us on a personal level. 

Women in war. we dont generally think at a girl will kill at war, she looks very scared, with her facil expressions, you could also see as well that she looks like a young school girl, with plaits in her hair. 

We are positioned here with fear and feeling scared.

When looking at the character we can align with him as he feels sorry for killing the young girl. but war is war and if they aren't on your side they die. we are positioned with the fact that he has just killed a girl. 

Looking at the young girls face we are shown fear and pain. We are menat to feel upset, that a young girl has died. We always think that men killing women is bad. 

We are positioned with him very upset and regretted what he has done. 

We are positioned with him feeling proud of himself, that he killed someone. 

My own emotional response very angry

We are mainly positioned with a man killing a girl. 

Full Metal Jacket

Here at the bottom of my page is the table I have created when we was looking at the film the full metal jacket. Closely looking at Private Joker and Private Pyle. 

Looking at this page at the top you can see spider digram that was created  showing the spectatorship in films. 

Audience spectatorship

This is spectatorship line that I created to help me. I have the think bubble first then I have the glasses for the visual side, then I have the faces for emotional responses, then I have micro written in small to help me with the micro element. Then I have the analysis which I have drawn a whole to help me to remember to analysis all of the things that have been consided  

Here we have my notes on audience Vs spectatorship.