Mission Impossible

Today in the media lesson we watched the first ten to fifteen minutes of the first Mission Impossible.  We then had to write down notes about the music and the characters that where meet in those first minutes.  This is those notes and some other things that I am adding in now.

Music.

• The music was very up beat, fast and just like the theme song for James bond if someone where to know the tune they would instantly recognise it
• The music featured mainly drums to make it sound more heavy in tune
• The song itself was very catchy

Characters.

• In the those first ten to fifteen minutes watched all but one of the characters that where introduced where killed, which to me seems kind of odd, the film has just started and then what happens well, all the characters but one are dead
• The one character that survives is called Ethan Hunt he is in all of the Mission Impossible films
• He is first seen in a hero shot
• He is shown to be a strong and resourceful character because even when the mission is going wrong and all his team are being killed he still trys to make the mission a success.  But if you haven't seen the movie I will say now he doesn't managed to make the mission a success and the mission fails.

Representation in Gladiator

In the opening ten minutes of Gladiators the first character is met Maximus played by Russel Crowe.  He is in my mind the General of a Roman army, this was shown in the way he was dressed, the way he spoke and from how the troops reacted when he walked past.  He wore a cape which looked like it had been made out of the fur of an animal and unlike the normal infantry his chest piece had a metal bear head on it and was different to the ones the infantry was wearing.  What made me think he was the General from how he spoke and how the troops reacted was that when walking past the normal infantry they where all bowing to him and how he was giving words of encouragement.

In the opening ten minutes of Gladiators binary opposites are shown from how each different unit of troops wore different things and from the difference in what they where wearing compared to the horde they were about to fight.  Each unit of infantry wore different costumes so the front line troops wore metal helmets and chest plates.  While as the archers had metal helmets and chain mail chest plates.  The differences in costume between the Roman army and the horde was that the Roman army wore metal and where shaved while as the horde wore animal fur and all had beards.  The costumes also counted of the weapons that all the people where holding.  So the Roman troops where holding spears and metal shields, the archers where holding bows and had quivers on their backs loaded with arrows and then the horde had wooden shields and what looked to me like wooden spears.

 The first ten minutes showed stereotypes by making the horde very brutish and angry. Then they also showed this with the Roman infantry and Maximus, because when I hear the word Roman I do think of a man in a metal helmet, metal chest plate and leather trousers.  Also because when I hear the words Roman General I think of a man who is wearing a cape probably red, and had a chest plate that is shinier then all the other Roman infantry.

If the sounds used in the opening ten minutes weren't there then those ten minutes would have just seemed less realistic and fake.  The sounds they had in the background of the ten minutes was the sound of people marching into position ready for a fight and also in the background behind that I could hear someone shouting what sounded like to me orders to the infantry.

Skyfall

Representation of the characters met in the first eleven minutes of the new James Bond film Skyfall. 

The first character met was James Bond himself, wearing what I would picture when I heard the words James Bond, Daniel Craig wearing a suit and holding a pistol.  We see him first in a hero shot where it isn't possible to see his face but it is still obvious it is him by the way he is standing.  He is the hero of the film and also the first character we meet in the film just like many other movies.  He is made to look strong, bold and courageous from how he stands just like you would expect the best agent in MI6 to be.

The next character we meet is M, Judi Dench.  She is shown as a women who can do what she likes and control people because she is the leader of MI6.  We then see in the first part of the scene and later on in the eleven minutes we watched that she has no care for the lives of her agents and that she just wants to get a hard drive that was stolen from MI6 back.  She shows this by telling Bond to leave an agent who is bleeding out, and go get the hard drive back and later on when she tells Bonds sidekick to take a shot even though Bond could get hit instead of the villain.  This could also mean that she just wants the mission to be complete no matter what the consequences.

The third character we meet in this beginning bit of the movie is Bonds sidekick, another agent of MI6.  She sees herself as being just as good as Bond at what they do for a living and believes that they are equal.  She shows this from how she acts.  But at the end of the first elven minutes we see she isn't as good as she could be because she takes a shot and hits Bond instead of the villain, who then gets away.

The final character we meet who we never see again is a stereotypical bad guy who like Bond is also wearing a suit and wielding a machine pistol with an extended ammunition holder.  He shows he is the bad guy by shooting at Bond in the middle of a market place.  Also like other modern day film bad guys (mostly Bond ones) he has a fast car as to make it easier to try and get away from the hero of the film.

action and adventure films

Star wars 2 attack of the clones, Batlestar Galactica razor, The Dark Knight Rises, Terminator 3 rise of the machines, Matrix revolutions, In Time, Avatar, The Bourne Ultimatum, Back to the future, Sherlock Holmes