Director: Daniel Barber
How does the film 'Harry Brown' represent youths?
- Iconic symbols are used to represent British youths - hoodies suggest to us what are we to expect, the pitbull, guns, knives are a symbol of violence.
- Drugs are also a theme which we know is associated with crime.
- Sexual Confrontation - males are dominant and overpowering to females.The female officer challenges stereotypes as she works out what Harry Brown did but her male collegues refuse to believe her.
- Criminal Behaviour - Youths are persistently associated with crime
- Colloquial language
- Binary Opposition - Harry Brown's opposition is Noel, the gang's opposition is Harry Brown and the police. There is opposition between different age groups, youths, middle aged and elders. Social class also creates opposition, working class and lower class.
- Enviroment - has an influence on how British youths behave but also how they are represented
- Lighting - shadows and darkness, can't see who's hiding, evil, fear, hiding identity
- Genre - horror elements such as lighting, colour, location and gore but plot is more of a thriller.
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- Suggests "hoodies" are not even human - they are represented as the monsters in films, relation to vampires, zombies, demons, aliens and other supernatural elements
- Often related to horror themes - again supernatural elements and horror characters
- Some films look at what is behind these youths - "Fish Tank", they are actually human with emotions and relationships, connections with other people
- Fiction and Non-fiction - Non-fiction is scarier to us as it is real and it's something we know
- Council estates and underclass - survival is harder, the enviroment is grim
- Binary Oppositions - Upper class who are not represented so negitively "But if you had a bunch of public school kids in blazers, it just wouldn't be that scary." The films lead people to right wing politics and opinions, power of the ruling class. Worried the udnerclass are going to undermine and distrupt what they believe to be society.
- Moral Panick - fear of youths and tells us that they are out of control, undermining society
- Fullfilling Prophecy - being told what they are like and following it
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