Sunday, 10 November 2019

X FILM OPENING EG2 The Brothers Grimsby


  • Expect to see multiple film idents - film industry is risky so co-production spreads risks - see distributor ident as well as production company idents
  • Low budget end - often see TV channel idents (BBC etc.) - also possibly see UK film council (now called BFI - British Film Institute)
  • Working Title - subsidiary of vertically integrated Big 5 conglomerate NBC Universal - not as important (junior company) as conglomerate so last in series to appear and audio bridge to movie or not used at all
  • Working Title - first look deal - therefore distributed by Columbia, Sony so no WT or NBC Universal ident is shown
FILM OPENING
  • Narrative enigma - don't know where it is set however can see faces
  • Very shallow field of focus
  • Big close up
  • Very thick and wide sideburns - working class - possibly connoting comedy genre
  • Slightly long and unkempt hair 
  • Gold chain
  • Man more in frame than woman signifies him as protagonist (he's also on top)
  • 2 shot
  • Red filter connoting set in past or porn
  • Further exposition through mise-en-scene
  • England football team large tattoo on back - big fan - association with working class
  • Football jersey in shot
  • Can of lager - working class anchorage
  • Comedic genre pushed at start
  • Assumed bedroom - narrative enigma - actually in store
  • Sales - cheap beds
  • Rule of thirds
  • Girl covered - anchors man as protagonist
  • Single mums wearing shell-suits and smoking - stereotype of working class with father leaving
  • Contrasting with This is England
  • Graffiti and boarded up buildings
  • Didn't get much box office - too distinctively English for an American audience - had to change name from Grimsby to The Brothers Grimsby
  • Columbia Pictures Presents - distributors
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