Dylan Hogan A-level Film Studies

This essay will explore how spectators respond to a film in the same way and how they watch and fell for The film Captain Fantastic. Spectatorship is how individuals respond to a film in different ways, Spectators respond differently to films because of key factors like: age, gender, race and culture also personal factors may affect the response of a spectator to a film with things like empathy and the fact that they can relate to the characters. Filmmakers use a range of key and structural elements of film to respond to the film in a particular way like for example in the opening sequence to Captain Fantastic the filmmakers create an response for the spectators to the family and the way that they are living their lives and how brutal the start is when Bodevan kills the deer and create an emotional response of anger towards the family because of the way that they kill the deer and the anger that is portrayed. The filmmakers deliberately make the opening sequence horrifying to show th...

Masculinity and its flaws In Captain fantastic the masculinity is about living in a world of masculinity which needs you to be a big strong person which is a stereotypically a masculine trait and that the father try's to make them more like men by giving his children knives and makes them hunt for there food. Where as on the other in inception masculinity is portrayed differently in the way that their is a shift in power between Cobb and his Ariadne and how at the start of the dream Cobb controls the dream and the situation     but as they go deeper Ariadne starts to take control of the situation and controls things by moving things in the dream this makes Cobb vulnerable in the dream and reveals his wife to her. Inception The narrative of Inception is linked the the way videos games are constructed by the dream world and the way that the dream world plays out like for example when they play music in reality they can hear it in the dream world. Also the way in which a vide...