Define Genre n Genre Convention
- Genre is a category of different styles, tones, and characteristic in a media.
- Genre conventions are story codes such as characters, soundtrack, setting, plot that are expected to be in certain genres, and has to complement the genre of the media.
Movie Title: The Pianist 2002
Describe the genre and genre conventions of the movie:
- The movie's genre is a hybrid genre consisting of war, history, drama. It's genre's convention consists of elements that associates and conforms to the genre of the movie. It contains guns, dead bodies, a nazi ruled country, and explosions, as well as tragedy and evil soldiers.
Describe its audience:
- This movie is directed towards audiences age 13 and above, mainly audiences above the age of 17, as they contain extreme violence and cruel depictions of corpses and genocide. It is appealing to people who enjoys historical movies mainly set in the world war era and is also enjoyed by people who likes movies that depicts sadness and tragedy.
Movie: The Hangover part I 2009
Describe the genre and genre convention of this movie:
- This movie genre is a comedy and it contains multiple hilarious moments and humorous characters which is to be expected in a comedy movie and so it conforms to the movie genre.
Describe its audience:
-This comedy movie is directed towards audiences age 18 and above for it contains multiple sexually explicit scenes as well as harsh language. This Movie generally appeals to people who enjoy comedy movies and yearn for a some laughter.
Movie title: Fight Club 1999
-This movie is a hybrid Action/crime genre and its fast paced disastrous plot as well as the crime that took place in this movie which were committed by characters that possesses criminal traits conforms to the genre of the movie.
Describe its audience:
-This movie is directed towards mature audiences age 18 and above preferably over 21 as it contains multiple sexually explicit scenes, language, and violence. It is also a deeply philosophical movie that which might not be easy to understand. This movie appeals to audiences who enjoy action and crime as well as movies with a deeper meaning behind it, and not to mention plot twists.
Movie title: Taxi Driver 1976
Describe the genre and genre convention of this movie:
- This movie is a crime genre with a dark tone and complex characters which perfectly compliment its noire style, it is also located in a busy dirty city filled with corruption and prostitution which conforms to the genre of the movie.
Describe the audience:
-This movie is directed towards mature audiences age 18 and above as it contains a few sexual scenes and extreme violence. This movie speaks to what's still happening today as the main character is a man who has been burdened with loneliness his entire life and as a result he turned towards drugs and slowly starts to lose himself and is walking down a path of self destruction. It appeals to audiences who enjoy crime movies with a noir style and audiences who can relate to the main character struggles.
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