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British Cinema - Coggle Diagram
British Cinema
This is England
narrative structure
equilibrium
- Shaun gets into a fight with a kid called Harvey after he makes a joke about his dad who was killed in the Falkland
- Shaun comes across a group of skinhead, led by Woody, on his way home who all feel sympathy for him and they ask him to join the group
disruption
- combo returns from prison and is accompanied by Banjo
- Combo shares extremist views
- there is a split in the group
recognition
- Shaun sees combo as a mentor
- Shaun goes to a national front meeting with combo
- Pukey expresses some doubt over the meeting and combo sends him back to woody
- gang engages in some racist activity like going to Mr Sandhu's shop
Climax
- Combo becomes depressed after being rejected from Lol
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- During a party combo is intoxicated and increasingly gets more bitter and envious when milky explains his family life
- Combo enters a frenzied state and beats milky until he is unconscious - Banjo holds Shaun down
New Equilibrium
- Film cuts of Shaun in his room looking at a picture of his dad
- Shaun reflects on the incident but is reassured that Milky is alright
- Shaun goes to the beach and throws his St George's flag (a gift from combo) into the sea.
binary oppositions
- conflict between opposing characters shapes the narrative within this is England
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open ended
- spectator does not get a clear indication of Milky's condition and it is unclear if he will re-join woody or not
- Shawn looks at the camera ask what to do now.
- Meddow may be asking the audience "what you want to do to shauns life now"
Patterns and repition
- numerous locations are repeated - Sandhu's shop, gangs playing football. these repetitions draw to the idea that things have changed
Ideology
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right
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law, authority, hierarchy, tradition
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far right
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anti - immigration, racist
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Intertextuality
'400 Blows' (Dir.Truffant,1959)
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Shaun of the Dead
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Context
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film has an anarchic tone - although the military arrive and save the day it is the individuals that need to cooperate first
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Narrtive
Equilibrium
- Shaun is a salesman with no direction in his life
- His colleagues disrespect him and as a bad relationship with his step-father
- Shaun is in love with Liz and is in the Winchester every night of his life
disruption
- Shaun and Ed play electro pop till 4 in the morning and Pete decides to be boring and force them to turn the music off - he is a bit cranky because he got bit when he got robbed
Recognition
- By the morning, the zombie apocalypse has overwhelmed London but Shaun and Ed are too slow to notice
- Shaun makes a plan to try and win Liz back whilst also making sure Barbara is safe, they decide to go to the Winchester
- Shaun and Ed go to save Barbara put Pete is now a zombie and Philip has been bitten (RIP). Shaun along with Ed and Barbara pick up Liz, Diane and David
- the group leave the car and make it to the Winchester in the pub, once in the pub David attempts to shoot Barbara as she has been bitten but Shaun shoots her in the face instead
Climax
- Zombies break into the pub and David ends up being eaten alive and Diane goes to save him (is she dead? is she not ? no idea)
- Ed gets bit by Pete and the Winchester sets on fire
- Shaun and Liz escape through the hatch and Ed stays in the pub to shoot zombies with the rifle with the remaining ammunition
- The army arrives and saves Shaun and Liz
Resolution
- Six months after the outbreak, zombies are used as cheap labour and entertainment
- Liz has moved in with Shaun and Shaun keeps Ed as a pet in the shed and they play video games together
Ideology
- a set of beliefs a person might have
- gender - seeing men as superior as it is Liz that needs to be saved
- glorifying men within films when in reality it is them that do there bare minimum
- the working class were zombies prior to the accident
- presentation of women within the film, women need to be saved within the film however they were fine before Shaun came and rescued them.
Intertextuality
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the films are a homage to George Romero's zombie trilogy: Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978), and Day of the Dead (1985)