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Textual Analysis: Essay Plan

Thesis statement

The two Films i have chosen for my textual analysis are Batman Begins (2005) and Casino Royale (2006). In both films it is the start of them becoming hero's, I am exploring what happens in the narrative to make them heroic?  How it is shown to the audience through the Micro aspects such as Mise-en-scene. In my personal opinion both of these characters are physiologically damaged, the narrative shows this in many aspects through out many of the iconic scenes in each of theses films with the Mise-en-scene. I believe that the physiological issues behind the characters are what have made them the archetype of a hero's or more anti hero's. Each of the characters James Bond and Batman/Bruce Wayne are orphans as there parents both died when they were both young this could be one of the reasons why they are physiologically damaged, the reason they risk there life's as they both feel as they are to blame, for what happened to them, they feel they need some kind of redemption 

key scenes for analysis

How they are portrayed at the start of there heroism: Batman: on ice training with Ra's Al Ghul (Ducard) Casino Royale: The first scene with the flash back and office in Prague
 
How They Compare on the first time they are thrown in to action: Batman: His first appearance in the Batman costume. Casino Royale: Where he has the case scene through Madagascar.

How the love interest shape/change the hero: Batman: When Bruce meets Rachael again after he gets back from China. Casino Royale: When Bond meets Vesper for the first time on the Train.

How it affects the character Physiological state of mind: Batman: flash back opera to where his parents get murdered in front of him. Casino Royale: Le Chiffre torture Bond for the codes.

How each these link in to what is happening in the narrative: Batman: Wayne Manor burning down. Casino Royale: fight scene in the renovated building in Venice. (sinking)   

Conclusion 

Batman Begins and Casino Royale, both of the stories evolve in to them becoming the hero’s we know, but the things they do in the narrative make them anti hero's.  Each of these films different ways they become anti hero's.  In Batman he becomes a hero because he blames himself for his parent’s murder, he believes that he needs to be redeemed for the murder, so he goes out as a vigilante so he can feel some kind of redemption in himself. The reason he wears the Batman costume is because Bruce Wyane himself is a coward and needs something to hide behind. Where as in Casino Royale, James bond is a completely different character.  He does not hide behind anything he want to let people know he is a killing machine and he wants people to notice he is a threat to the enemy. The narratives are both similar in a way as they both start off with them at the start of there journey as a hero and the narratives both end in a form of revenge. 

Children of men

Children Of Men is a Dystopia film set in London in the year 2027, where no child has been born for 18 years and scientists have no reasons behind this. With their dwindling population African and East European societies decide to try to immigrate to England. Whist their own country’s dwindle in to darkness.

In a climate of nationalistic violence, a London peace activist turned bureaucrat Theo Faron, joins forces with his revolutionary ex-wife Julian in order to save mankind by protecting a woman who has mysteriously became pregnant.

-          Death

-          Depression

-          Hope

-          Punishment

-          Terrorism

-          Tragedy

-          Infertility of Mankind

-          Optimistic Future

-          Loss

-          Anti-Government

-          Immigration

-          Pollution

There are many massages that are portrayed throughout this film, for example the mise-en-scene of the film covers this in many aspects, through, the locations, by it being set in a bleak future portrayal of London. The low key lighting indicates the fact that the character of Theo is unhappy with his life and they way it has turned out I know this as the film is shot as if it is a documentary of his life, and it uses tracking shots and is filmed it continuous sequences. This gives it the style of a documentary. This film is also very gender stereotypical as during the film Theo is made to protect a girl called Kee who is the only pregnant woman in the world and they are trying to get her to the human project. Another massage that is portrayed is that facts the government have let the people down, by they’re being an influx of terrorism in there country this shows the government have lost all control and cannot protect its people.

I think there are two very influential scenes in the film.

The first scene that is set along the strand in London when he is in a café, getting a cup of coffee, then stepping out side putting his cup on the side and put some form of alcohol in it this shows that Theo has had enough of life and does not really care anymore. But it seems not to faze anyone around him like it is normal behaviour? Then the coffee shop that he has just been in explodes in some kind of terrorist attack, the sound shocks Theo but not the fact that a shop has just exploded this shows that the people of England are not that effected by terrorist attacks like this, it seems to be normal to them in the depressing future and no one has any hope. But this scene is also important as it introduces the audience to the protagonist.

The second scene that I think is important is the scene where Kee is giving birth to her baby in I a dirty apartment in the refugee camp. This scene can be linked in with the nativity story, as it seems there seems to be no good rooms left so they just have to be stuck with what they have been given, like Mary and Joseph. Also It can show that happiness can come out of darkness as the world seems to be cold and depressing, but when the baby is born it brings joy to everyone. 

What makes the hero's, heroic

Course Work Films: Construction of the hero Narrative and Genre. Stock Hero

Children of men mood board

This mood board shows the dystopian theme, for example the run down streets the people having no hope, terrorism, immigration and the police all armored up to protect them more this shows society has got to violent.