HoW hAvE wOmEn'S RolEs ChAnGeD iN HoRrOR FiLmS WiTh PaRtIcUlaR RefErEnCe To The Decent 2005?
Story line: The decent is a revengeful, thrilling horror film based on six friends reuniting fora caving expedition. due to rock fall they are trapped in the caves to find themselves pursued by a strange breed of preditors. their friendship turns sour and they discover that the real fear is from eachother.
I had decided to choose 'The decent' directed by Neil Marshall as it does not follow the typical conventions of a horror 'slasher' film where usually at the end there will be one victim left weather it is a boy protagonise or a woman protagonist that kills the villan. The decent differs as all six characters die at the end even though it was made out to seem that the last girl survives, but at the end we are revealed that she is trapped there and left there to die alongside the ghost of her daughter who passed away at the beginning of the film ina car crash.
Other similar films: Scream 1+2+3/ Halloween. I know what you did last summer/ Saw 1+2.
Media language: Slow camera movements, effects of a hand held camera to emphasis e realism, lots of close-ups of the six girls to show facial experessions of fatal incidents that occur, tensfull music, low key lighting to set the scenes of a cave.
Institution: Celador films. Most horror films are remakes of the original, this film differs as it has its own original story line.
Genre: Revengeful,thrilling horror film most horror films show generic conventions this differs as the person who is usually left behind at the end to kill the villan is also left in the cave to die. Revengefull, thrilling, adventure, horror.
Representation: Six adventurous girls who go an expedition in a cave after reuniting. they all play the roles of powerfull gutfull girls. there is one character who stands out and playes the leading role (replacing male figures) and taking over male dominace, she does this by leading the 5 girls. young blond wemen are getting murdered rather then being saved by a male, they are getting saved and helped by female as there is no males in the film. All the females are being represented positively and show that women to can be curragous and take on challenges, and not just get scared and waited to be rescued. the film protrays the fact that women and men are more equal in the society in recent days as in comparison to past as they are going on an adventure and playing a sport which is mainly seen by males doing it. women are getting injured badly (bones comming out of their legs) and shows that women do not always stop and cry and wait for help but they are couragous and carry on going .
Audience: Targeted at both male and female. All the women are dressed in small outfits and enhances male gaze which makes the film appeal to them. It also targets to women as the six girls are carrying out somethign extraordinary that not every women would do and it would appeal to them as they will want to see how they cope.
Ideologies and values: That women and both men are equal and if they get hurt they dont just stop and cry but they carry on (e.g. when the youngest protagonist's bone was popping out of her skin but she had to carry on walking otherwise she would die). it also shows that males do not only play the heroic part in films. promotes feminism.
Narrative: does not follow generic conventions of a horror film as usually the end protagonist kills the villan, but in this film all the girls die.
Theories that apply
Feminism: as it is based on six powefull girls, promoting women are equal to men.
Male gaze: This is done through the costumes that the girls wear, and pretty young women with nice figures.
Postmodernism: this is applied as it has a distorting beginning and ending, also has stories within stories (the two friends are tying to get out and escape but they have history as they find out that one of them had an affair with the others husband)
Social context: nowadays in horrow films is more gory and gruesome as we get to see the killing rather then it being sensored by just implying and stating the opbvious that someone is being killed.(We actually get to see bones comming out of peoples legs, stabbings in the neck. people nowadays prefer stadistic pleasure in horroe films which is the couse of films not using sensorship.
Historical context: the roles of women have changed as in the 7-'s women who were seen as sexual objects are usually the ones who cause the disruption and end up dying. and then as time went by it was the males who usually dominated such as superman saving his girlfriend and would usually save the girl. nowadays womens roles have changed as in the decent the women play a heroic parts and they have to save themselves. it does not follow typical generic conventions of a blond girl being trapped helplessly waiting to be saved, as the girls actually want to fight their battle and have no male dominance to save them.
Economic: The Decent was a low budget film, which was shit in Scotland. they are low budget in comparison to American action films and fantacy films. As it was a British film it was low budget with not so much advertising done.
Political context: The narratives in horror films ac as metaphors, this is true when it comes to modern texts as they often reflect the mood of time. This is shown as zeitgeist.
Story line: The decent is a revengeful, thrilling horror film based on six friends reuniting fora caving expedition. due to rock fall they are trapped in the caves to find themselves pursued by a strange breed of preditors. their friendship turns sour and they discover that the real fear is from eachother.
I had decided to choose 'The decent' directed by Neil Marshall as it does not follow the typical conventions of a horror 'slasher' film where usually at the end there will be one victim left weather it is a boy protagonise or a woman protagonist that kills the villan. The decent differs as all six characters die at the end even though it was made out to seem that the last girl survives, but at the end we are revealed that she is trapped there and left there to die alongside the ghost of her daughter who passed away at the beginning of the film ina car crash.
Other similar films: Scream 1+2+3/ Halloween. I know what you did last summer/ Saw 1+2.
Media language: Slow camera movements, effects of a hand held camera to emphasis e realism, lots of close-ups of the six girls to show facial experessions of fatal incidents that occur, tensfull music, low key lighting to set the scenes of a cave.
Institution: Celador films. Most horror films are remakes of the original, this film differs as it has its own original story line.
Genre: Revengeful,thrilling horror film most horror films show generic conventions this differs as the person who is usually left behind at the end to kill the villan is also left in the cave to die. Revengefull, thrilling, adventure, horror.
Representation: Six adventurous girls who go an expedition in a cave after reuniting. they all play the roles of powerfull gutfull girls. there is one character who stands out and playes the leading role (replacing male figures) and taking over male dominace, she does this by leading the 5 girls. young blond wemen are getting murdered rather then being saved by a male, they are getting saved and helped by female as there is no males in the film. All the females are being represented positively and show that women to can be curragous and take on challenges, and not just get scared and waited to be rescued. the film protrays the fact that women and men are more equal in the society in recent days as in comparison to past as they are going on an adventure and playing a sport which is mainly seen by males doing it. women are getting injured badly (bones comming out of their legs) and shows that women do not always stop and cry and wait for help but they are couragous and carry on going .
Audience: Targeted at both male and female. All the women are dressed in small outfits and enhances male gaze which makes the film appeal to them. It also targets to women as the six girls are carrying out somethign extraordinary that not every women would do and it would appeal to them as they will want to see how they cope.
Ideologies and values: That women and both men are equal and if they get hurt they dont just stop and cry but they carry on (e.g. when the youngest protagonist's bone was popping out of her skin but she had to carry on walking otherwise she would die). it also shows that males do not only play the heroic part in films. promotes feminism.
Narrative: does not follow generic conventions of a horror film as usually the end protagonist kills the villan, but in this film all the girls die.
Theories that apply
Feminism: as it is based on six powefull girls, promoting women are equal to men.
Male gaze: This is done through the costumes that the girls wear, and pretty young women with nice figures.
Postmodernism: this is applied as it has a distorting beginning and ending, also has stories within stories (the two friends are tying to get out and escape but they have history as they find out that one of them had an affair with the others husband)
Social context: nowadays in horrow films is more gory and gruesome as we get to see the killing rather then it being sensored by just implying and stating the opbvious that someone is being killed.(We actually get to see bones comming out of peoples legs, stabbings in the neck. people nowadays prefer stadistic pleasure in horroe films which is the couse of films not using sensorship.
Historical context: the roles of women have changed as in the 7-'s women who were seen as sexual objects are usually the ones who cause the disruption and end up dying. and then as time went by it was the males who usually dominated such as superman saving his girlfriend and would usually save the girl. nowadays womens roles have changed as in the decent the women play a heroic parts and they have to save themselves. it does not follow typical generic conventions of a blond girl being trapped helplessly waiting to be saved, as the girls actually want to fight their battle and have no male dominance to save them.
Economic: The Decent was a low budget film, which was shit in Scotland. they are low budget in comparison to American action films and fantacy films. As it was a British film it was low budget with not so much advertising done.
Political context: The narratives in horror films ac as metaphors, this is true when it comes to modern texts as they often reflect the mood of time. This is shown as zeitgeist.
posted by prascilla x at 3:33 PM
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The Decent.....
The information is detailed and specific to the question. There are pictures, colourful writing and migrain/wider context. The question of the independent study focuses on representation of women, and the information parallels with the question and this makes the detailed information relavent.
There is also a short summary of what the movie is about and the movie sounds like it has to be seennn.........
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