2nd advert

Italian Job Heist scene

Most of the team are conventional heroic figures, Jason Statham, Edward Norton and Mark Wahlberg are all the traditional male lead; good looking, well built and extremely skilled at their individual roles in the heist. The Seth Green character is conventional in a different way, he is the technology obsessed ‘computer nerd’ who talks in phrases that are so complicated that they are difficult to understand. One of these characters is seen in almost every action film, for example, Q in the James Bond series and Simon Peggs character in the Mission Impossible series. The other members of the team flout the stereotype of a heroic protagonist because Donald Sutherland is much older, less fit and not as well built as a traditional protagonist. He becomes like a father figure to the group but still proves himself to be extremely skilled when he breaks open the safe. Mos Def’s character is the other member of the team and he breaks the tradition by being extremely intellectual and well-cultured, for example when he is asked what he would do with the money he says first edition books, whereas the more stereotypical characters of the team wish for things that will help them get women.

The two main nationalities represented in this extract are: American and Italian. However the audience is meant to support the Americans because they are shown as being professional, polite and well organised, whereas the Italians are represented as lazy, undisciplined and stupid. This is most obvious in the boat chase; when the Italian bodyguards fall for a simple trick by the American heroes that leaves them stranded and in the moment when the camera moves through the ceiling, from the hard-working, professional heroes to the lazy bodyguards who are not doing their job but watching TV and smoking. The audience are supposed to forget the fact that the Americans are the criminals and the Italians are the ‘good guys’ on the side of the law, and focus more on the characters themselves and their relationships with each other.

Experimenting with light

To get an idea of what my advert would look like, I took photos using contrejour and silhouettes, using different filters as well.

Ideas for 2nd advert

Ideas for second advert
. Skateboarding
. Contrejour
. Silhouette of a man holding a skateboard with the sun in the background

Johnny English action hero

How is Johnny English an action hero?

. He attempts to save England by foiling a villains plan

. He makes the heroic statement that if he does not succeed then no one knows what may happen to England, heroic statements like this are a staple of action films

. He is shown to be facing overwhelming odds, the shot up to the mansion makes it look large and menacing and shows the magnitude of the situation and how unlikely he is to succeed

. He is also shown trying to save a woman by doing a brave deed and going up the dangerous pipe first to check if the coast is clear

. He makes another statement about how he has analysed the environment in great detail, showing that is clever and has done similar things before, because of how quickly he works out the way to get in

. The whole scene is also set in a dark, mysterious and dangerous place. Johnny English is attempting a brave feat by leading the way confidently

. In dresses in the clichéd ‘James Bond’ look, with the smart, crisp and expensive suit with the hidden pistol inside that proves to the audience that he is a man of action, who is ready for anything

. Apart from the part where he bangs his head on the grille, he is everything that an action hero should be; brave, dashing, daring, commanding, decisive, suave, confident, caring, smart and experienced, making heroic statements and saving the country