(2:03-2:58) The theme is denoted in this scene by the kids ,who are wearing casual clothes and some are wearing baggy clothes and swearing, seeing someone of whom is a higher class than them and they feel threatened just because he looks at them. This makes them begin to take action and go to rob the man to try and show him that they are better than him and they end up shooting him the leg and then running off. This shows that these two classes that are very far apart are having a "clash"
It is represented in the way that first the upper-class man had brought a gun maybe for protection as he is judging the lower class people and assuming that they mean harm so it is a foreshadow that he may have expected some violence to occur with them. Also the fact that the kids took him as a threat represents that they were being judgmental on him causing the social class clash. The fact that they broke the man's car window shows that they do not value the car and shows that they are not wealthy like him which may be one reason why they feel threatened by him.
This is a typical theme of a BSR film as the BSR genre focuses mainly on the gritty, bad side of Britain and it helps the audience see what happens if a middle class character enters an area of under classed people.
I might explore this theme in my film by maybe adding a scene or scenes of two completely different people from different classes and making them encounter each other on bad terms; maybe across a theme of violence as well making the two classes having a fight.
Violence- Football Factory
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| Scene from fight scene |
This is the theme of violence being shown in the film Football Factory. It is denoted as a violent theme as in this scene a battle ensues between supporters and people are brutally beaten up over supporting different teams. The picture on the left denotes someone who has just been kicked in the face and his facial expression shows the agony he is in and the blood coming out of his nose.
Violence is represented in this scene as people are taking all their anger out on each other by using bricks as weapons and also being violent by kicking and punching until someone has got their life taken away from them. This is unnatural as it is only over football which makes it so much more dramatic for the audience and makes them more immersed into the film.
This is typical of a BSR because in these films they emphasise it to show the violent side of Britain
I may explore this in my film by using it to maybe make a smash mouth opening and to grab the attention of the audience. Also it gives the audience a sense of how the bad side of Britain can be and how rough it is.
Drug use/experimentation-Trainspotting
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| Scene from trainspotting |
This is the theme of drug abuse as he is using heroin again as he is an addict and no matter how much he says and tries to quit he just has to have "one more hit" In this scene he has used a stronger dose of heroin than normal showing he is a proper addict and craving more and more.
This theme is represented as through out the film drugs is the main theme and everyone in this film uses it and they clearly state that you don't need anything else in life other than heroin. It is represented as drug abuse as they use it over and over and even one clean person experiments with drugs.
This is typical of a BSR film because these films are not supposed to show the good side of Britain or be a happy film like most blockbuster films. This type of film is there to show you the real side of Britain and how people are affected by it.
I may use this in my work by showing how bad drugs can be but i would show it in the same way as trainspotting by showing the bad effects through people doing it and having fun.
Crime- Bullet Boy
In this scene the character is denoted to be in jail and you can tell by the plain walls and the unfocused jail bars at the front that it is in a jail. We do not know why he is in jail, the opening is just like this.
This theme is represented in this scene as the opening is of a character in a jail and as we do not know why he is in jail it leaves it up to us to decide what he has done. Later on the movie may tell us why he is there but in the beginning it starts making the audience ask questions creating a sense of enigma. Also the fact that he is in jail showing anxiety means its a likelihood that he was guilty of the crime that had been committed.
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| Scene from Bullet Boy |
I may use this in my work by using the same technique and starting with the consequence of a crime to create enigma but also i could make a smash mouth opening by opening with a crime being committed which also reveals that the main theme is crime and emphasizes it if i open with a crime.
Poverty- London to Brighton
In these scene it seems that a mother and daughter are trying to get away from someone but looking at the very first scene in the trailer you can see poverty is a main theme and also there is a scene in this film (screenshot shown below) that shows the mum having sex for money showing she would do anything to get money and in this situation it's money for something small like food or a train ticket.
This theme is represented by the woman mainly and how she is going through life through the film and what she would do for money and it shows the audience how bad life can really be in some areas.
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| scene from London to Brighton |
I can use this in my film by making the location in a gritty place and make it seem very poor and not taken care of. It seems poverty strikes at the heart of the audience and this is good to immerse the audience so poverty may be a key theme in my production.
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