Thursday 18 October 2012

Special Features 'The warriors'

Special Features The Warriors:

The Begging:

Walter Hill discusses how the studios forced him into the comic book idea, for it to make sense to Hill , by doing this he created a different kind of reality. 00:04:16 00:04:30

Bobbie Mannix - costume designer for The Warrior's . Hill had told Mannix when she brought in a wacky weird idea to the table to go with it as this showed the false reality. At 00:11:41 a screen play of the list Hill gave to Mannix showing exactly how over exaggerated representation in New York City.

When James Remar went out to do his research on Cony island to get a grasp of the area and the pople who lived there. He visited the board walk of Cony Island he says that he saw one stall with a tough looking man running a ball tossing stall. So Remar asked the man 'what kind of people come from here' and his reply was 'the waste kind' This highlights the scene when David Partick Kelly's character 'Luthur' pulls up through Cony island as Luthur gets hit with a knife and the beaten to be left it suggest 'the waste kind' 00:12:50 onwards.

Tuesday 16 October 2012

Glamorisation & Exaggeration Of Warriors : Opening Scene

In the opening scene of the Warriors we are immediately introduced to the hyperbole of this film. The film opens up to a comic book story board which is where the film does originate from however they include this to re-enforce the fantasy gangster genre. The gang ‘The Warriors’ are immediately compared to soldiers in the Greeks day of 401 BC we can see a clear contrast in time and comparison the comic book image of the wonder wheel turns into real life as the film begins. A train begins to flow across the screen title L to R telling the audience that we will see traveling on a train , this is the form of transport that ‘The Warriors’ will use. The film is filmed at night so hard lighting plays on the mood of this film being very dark and scary. The mise-en-scene used shows a heavily graffitied environment exaggerating on how gangs/ rough area’s appeal to the eye. ‘The Warriors’ are all wearing the same leather vest as costume with the warriors on the back of their vests showing that they are all part of the one gang, this shows that they are proud to be stuck wearing the same as others as it shows belonging a cut is used to then show the other gangs some of which are all dressed in purple , mime look alike , cadets uniform , Koreans , bright yellow jock jackets, silver jackets. When using this amount of costume to differentiate the gangs from each other and in groups all wearing the same we can clearly see that they all belong to their own gangs. Costume is heavily used through out this film as it separates the gangs , this has been shown from the minimalistic to the exaggerated for instance one of the gangs wear jeans and vest tops however the baseball furies are covered in face paint in baseball outfits with a bat the costume difference ad make-up also show the exaggeration on the gangs as they are all wearing the same clothes to belong to one unit. All of the gangs have been called for to have a meeting with Cyrus who has the biggest gang in the city. We see a gathering of 9 reps from each gang a gathering of 900 at this meeting many other gangs. This clearly shows an exaggeration in number of gang members in one area , the meeting clearly depicts the issues of the gangs wanting to become one and take over the police force by doing this they will all become equal not as little gangs but one gang just back to normal life really. This film uses the radio as a form of medium to tell the story and give messages to other gangs , theses scene’s show clips of a woman’s lips next to a microphone giving the messages across not directly but with hidden meanings such as the opening scene of the radio DJ saying ‘ alright now , for all you bumpers out there in the big city , all you street people with an ear for the action . I’ve been asked to release a request from the Gramercy Riffs , it’s a special for The Warriors that’s that real live bunch from Cony and I do mean The Warriors here’s a hit with them in mind’ and plays track on a record player which may suggest a time in which the film was set in , the lighting used in the shots are of red tints showing a colour connotation of danger to the messages by using this medium to publish the messages it allows everyone to know what is going on , making them aware and involving them which is where we see the story play when The Warriors are getting hunted down by many gangs as they believe that they killed Cyrus this message glamorizes how a message can be sent to everyone as this Is on the radio is can’t be hidden from the police force however we don’t see much action from the law side suggestion a one sided story of the gangs views by using a female to tell the story hints to a seductive manor of telling especially as the only thing in shot is her lips.

Thursday 11 October 2012

Introduction Draft

Introduction Draft:

For my research investigation I have decided to discus what extent the films ‘The Warriors’ and ‘A Bronx Tale’ present different extremes of representations of gang culture. My aims of my investigation will be to discover how the films glamorises violence and make realistic/unrealistic situations on locations. By applying the uses and gratifications theory I will identify why they make gangster films aesthetically pleasing to an audience i shall also be looking at the representation of the gang culture.
Both films are set in different time period's A Bronx Tale is set in the 1960's where as The Warriors is set in the future. I will be discussing the social and political issues within the films to show the different extremes. A Bronx Tale is set 1960's and is about American/ Italian culture narrated by Calogero (Lillo Brancato) showing how he is stuck in the middle of parting with his fathers up bringing and get an underpaid job and part with crime to receive riches and respect to follow his hero Sunny. This film shows the confrontations and social issues that went on in the 60's including racial and political whereas the film The Warriors is set in the future and the crime ratings has developed and taken over parts of America this film lies in the fantasy genre. This film shows how area's in the states are broken up into gangs and no one will pass each others land. This is Cyrus the leader of a most powerful gang in New York want's all the gangs to join as one to defeat the law and police and live the life as a gang eat gang world. Both films are shot in different time periods which clearly shows the extreme's from the 60's and a local gang to the future with gathering gang leader to get 60'000 'soldiers' to defeat the laws. A Bronx Tale follows a childhood of Calogero in his town admiring his hero to which befriends him to join him breaking laws and crimes , A Bronx Tale is more realistic to the matter of gang culture in the time but because The Warriors was just set in the 'future' we have no time period or social issues to back up the representation of the gang culture in that day and age but we can compare and contrast the difference in the exaggerations of numbers, crimes, positioning. How has the gang genre became something so little to so high? What do the character socially stand for? The Warriors lies under a hybrid genre as although it has elements of gangster conventions it also plays with fantasy this film also plays with hyperbole making the issues appear worse then they are and exaggerated on the issues which appear in the film. A Bronx Tale shows a calmer way of the gangster genre this may be because we don't know when The Warriors is set but a time difference is defiantly shown through mise-en-scene and low and high key lighting. We can see a clear differentiation in the realistic situation that happen in both film what is real and what is fantasy.

Tuesday 9 October 2012

Filming Locations; The Warrior's Coney Island

http://warriorsmovie.co.uk/filming-locations/

MOVIE FACTS

http://warriorsmovie.co.uk/movie-facts/

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ALL THESE QUOTES ARE FROM THE MOVIE FACTS : THIS SHOWS THAT ALTHOUGH THEY USED 1,000 EXTRA'S TO EXAGGERATE THE GANG CULTURE!

ALTHOUGH WHEN MAKING THIS FILM THEY OFFENDED MANY PEOPLE AND MANY GANGS, AS SHOWN ABOVE...

Crime in Astoria - where A Bronx Tale is filmed

http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Astoria-Oregon.html

Tuesday 2 October 2012

IMDB LOST 2004 User Ratings :

Lost Makes Merchandise :

Lost attracts that many fans that they have even let them sell there own Merch on the ABC site.

Los Angeles Times , Viewings :

'Lost' finale draws more than 13 million obsessed viewers.

About 13.5 million people tuned into ABC Sunday night for the two-and-a-half-hour series finale of "Lost," according to preliminary numbers from Nielsen. The special Sunday wrap-up show easily beat the competition and pushed ABC into first place in viewers and in the adults 18 to 49 demographic for the night.

The audience for the finale easily topped the 11.4 million viewers "Lost" had been averaging this season, which was the show's lowest average audience in its six-year history. Among adults ages 18 to 49, "Lost" averaged a 5.8 rating, an 11% improvement over the 5.2 it was averaging this season. Each rating point in that demographic equals about 1.3 million people.

Although it was never a massive hit, "Lost" had one of the most loyal (some would say obsessive) audiences around. Since its premiere in September 2004, fans and critics alike have analyzed every plot twist to death. Alas, I have never watched an episode so I can't add my two cents.

The two-hour "Lost" tribute that ABC ran from 7 to 9 p.m. PDT averaged 8.8 million viewers.

For history buffs, the series premiere of "Lost" back in 2004 had an audience of 18.65 million.

-- Joe Flint

Photo: ABC's "Lost." Credit: Mario Perez / Associated Press

Negative Response To Finale :

This video really does show how annoyed the fans were with the ending. As they forgot about the mysteries on the island and just kills off the characters. Fans stress out over the fact they have wasted 6 years to find out what actually happens in the end and feel that the writers didn't care towards the end and show there fans how 'big' 'amazing' the ending was.