Hot Fuzz - Working title

Hot Fuzz is a police action comedy film set in a sleepy village in the English countryside. Working Title has also produced such films as Shaun of the Dead which also starred Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. They have also made a number of films starring the popular actor Rowan Atkinson including the Mr. Bean films and Johnny English. However working title doesn't just specialise in comedy films it also produced such films as Frost/Nixon and Atonement. Hot fuzz's director Edgar Wright has also directed films, such as Shaun of the dead and A fistful of fingers.

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Richard Curtis

He lived in different countries during his childhood, including Sweden and The Phillipines and was born in Wellington in New Zealand . Studied literature at Oxford where he first met Rowan Atkinson and ironically now lives in Notting Hill. He based some of his work around his personal life including 4 weddings and a funeral with him and his partner's experience of meeting so many times at other people's weddings before finally getting together. Richard Curtis portrays Britishness by combining a range of different factors/ingredients to make one of his rom-coms. These include a good location either in or outside of London as well as making the values very clear to see as well as the humiliation that frequently is present in the humour of the film. He also portrays Britishness as a proud heritage which probably influenced him while spending his main educational years in Britain. He may also have been influenced by the way British culture was developing over the many years and working with people like Rowan Atkinson influenced his sense of humour and how he could adapt it to the big screen. His atheism also is a key factor in the writing of his programming.

Proposed year 13 film

Values and ideologies:

Trust- Trying to work together to fight off the incoming threat
Loss- The deaths of the video game characters
Suffering - Torture and pain as well as unpredictablity during the chaos.

Key demons/Folk devils

The film is against the playing of violent video games and also betraying others.

I will be consistent with these components in every shot and scene by doing plenty of close up shots and highlighting the characters emotions as well as showing the effects of the demons and what they can do for the worse. Also show the pain and threat of those fighting the games characters while others are screaming in pain.

British myths : Work of Richard Curtis

According to the writer Richard Curtis combines a range of different factors/ingredients to make one of his rom-coms. These include a good location either in or outside of London as well as making the values very clear to see as well as the humiliation that frequently is present in the humour of the film. It compares the work of British myth to American myth with American myth portrayed. His views of humour are firmly based on his own beliefs and the morals in his films are clearly highlighted around the 'moral universe'.

How are British Icons (and others) used in Notting Hill ?

British Icons are used in this film, firstly with the familar British cast members. These include Tim Mcinnerny from Blackadder and Emma Chambers who played Alice in Vicar of Dibley. By including these British Tv stars it helps to maintain the film as British and also helps the audience to relate to the film more easily. Another way that British icons are used is the use of the small area of Notting Hill which is location of the film. This is iconic as it is an area of London as Will mentions at the start of the film is very busy and full of history and tradition. As well as that the use of an American actress being in one of the lead roles helps to show the strength of the Anglo-American relationship. Having a big Hollywood actress, such as Julia Roberts appearing in the film shows the ambition of British film makers.

Notting Hill - Working Title Films

There are a number of ways that Notting Hill can be linked with the idea of myth underpinning cinema, because the plot is entertaining as the plot is so unique and unlikely and this helps the film to play on the audience's humour. Another way is that it helps to portray the theory that films nowadays aren't really truly conventional. The version of Britishness that's being portrayed in Notting Hill is the true love elemant and that poosites attract. It helps to show the attractiveness of living in Britain and the people have their own personalities and live their own unique lifestyles. For example the character of Will is self-deprecating, clumsy and disorganised and loveable whereas Anna is Cool yet passionate fragile and extremely fragile, but ambitious.

They're completely different from Honey who is wacky rebellious and lacking direction or ambition and Spike ( Will's roomate) who's outrageous, like Honey lacks direction, is an alcoholic and also is likeable but not really loveable.

Comparison of Italian Job and Get Carter

The Italian Job and Get Carter both starred Michael Caine and are both classic crime films. However there are plenty of similarities and differences between the 2 films. The similarities include, the fact that Get Carter also stars Tony Beckley who played Camp Freddie in The Italian Job and the vehicles that were featured in the film were similar to The Italian Job such as the iconic British Cars, The Mini Cooper and the 4x4 Land Rover. Michael Caine's character in both films is a strong male figure with a no nosense attitude and always with a clear motivation for his crimes. In terms of the portrayal of Britishness they both symbolise the hardship and sometimes the glamour of British crime culture. However the British pride that's represented in The Italian job using the idea of 'The self Preservation Society' is clearly absent in Get Carter. The use of mob violence that's features very rarely in The Italian Job features greatly in Get Carter with torture and gun fights the name of the game. This is comparison with the Italian Job making British culture look good with its bravery and pride whereas Get Carter is full of negativity with the use of Mob violence, betrayal and death.
Other differences between the two films includes the fact that this 'job' is motivated by revenge and in The Italian Job it was to help Britain's economy. Also Michael Caine's character in Get Carter in much more violent than when he played Charlie Croker in The Italian Job and the story is mainly based in Britain rather than London and Turin in The Italian Job. The cast in Get Carter is also less prestigious. Also Michael Caine's character in Get Carter is more sympathetic than when he played Charlie Croker and is tougher on those who fail him.

Get Carter : Did I find it shocking and disturbing ?

Even though this film was made about 38 years ago I still found it as shocking and disturbing to watch as a modern day gangster film which shows how far the film was ahead of its time. To me it really highlighted the bad side of British society and culture and it shocked me as to how far one man will go just to restore his pride and avenge his brother's death.

Myths and mythology

A Myth is something that isn't true and follows basic narrative structures such as good/evil. Night at the Museum is an example of a film underpinned by myth as it's a unique idea and unlikely to be true although you can imagine it happening. The mythical system is made up by idols such as heroes such as spiderman and batman, people who's lives we would love to live.

British film pitch

It's big its bold it's now the new wars of fallen video game. However the buyers of the game are in for a bit of shock as the characters escape the game and start attacking the inhabitants of London. Will a bold team of individuals led by Martin fuller stop the chaos and restore order or will London be turned into ' the battlefield from hell' ?