The part of the Austin power film Gold member we had to watch was the first four minutes of where the film has gotten Tom Cruise to play Austin Powers in a spoof film opening for a film about Austin Powers directed by Steven Spielberg. All ready in the first four minutes the film has combat scenes in it with a helicopter chasing after a woman on a motorbike and Tom Cruise shooting the helicopter with machine guns. Those first four minutes also have speed and motion in them because there is a fast car, a helicopter and a motorbike. All chasing after one another.
It kind of has a stereotypical secret agent a man who can get the girl straight away but saying that it then it doesn't show stereotypical secret agent by the secret agent being Austin Powers a crazy hippy from the 60's. In my mind a stereotypical secret agent is not a man wearing glasses, an all blue outfit which is a coat and trousers and weird looking cufflinks. No I see a man wearing a black suit with a white shirt and a black bow tie. But I guess that is what makes Austin Powers so different.
Also meet in the first four minutes is a stereotypical bad guy wearing a grey suit and holding a cat. In my mind that is what I picture when I think of a stereotypical bad guy. Someone wearing a suit which is grey or white and holding an animal.
Well done: an excellent start on genre codes of speed and motion,as well as combat; you are also observant pointing out that Powers / Cruise has elements of the action hero but certainly doesn't look like one as his costume is rather camp.
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