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Post by xhayleyx90 on Mar 5, 2008 11:05:09 GMT
Hey, for my media project I'm doing a piece on This Is England and the youth crime represented in it.
Would be helpful if you could just talk about the characters and how crime and attitudes are represented.
Thanks !
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Post by xhayleyx90 on Mar 5, 2008 11:17:54 GMT
also, if you have seen Trainspotting, Human Traffic or Greenstreet could you please say a couple of views on the drugs/violence in these films and compare with This Is England? Would be a great help, thanks  |
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Post by billywizz on Mar 5, 2008 12:05:43 GMT
all 4 films you mention are great, but green street is so much more realistic than the rest....the amount of posh american teenagers running mobs up and down this country every saturday afternoon is frightening, and it's a credit to the director that his portrayal is so accurate and chilling....
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Post by pok3d on Mar 5, 2008 17:55:44 GMT
Why not tell us? It's your project, after all. |
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Post by xhayleyx90 on Mar 7, 2008 15:59:17 GMT
you're right !
personally out of the four i think that this is england has the most "real" representation of youth at that time seeing as it has 2 types of skinheads, but in comparison, which do you prefer and why ?
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Post by NewYorkDoll on Mar 10, 2008 21:11:32 GMT
This Is England is the best out of all films, although Trainspotting is a bloody classic. TIE has a very real iamge of youth and the crime but don't forget to say that it mainly focuses on the age of Thatcher and youth in that time. However, there is some message of how today's youth acts..we are still manipulated by those older than us and the political messages constantly being rammed down our necks. On the other hand Trainspotting is a film which focuses on the slightly older generation and more serious drugs. It tends to focus more on a life dictated by drug abuse and the crime which it brings whereas TIE looks at crime, rage and race from a more political perspective.
Cal x.
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Post by jimmy975 on Mar 13, 2008 17:36:09 GMT
I wouldn't say Trainspotting was any less political. The film echoed the times of Thatcher when Edinburgh was the heroin and AIDS capital of Europe. It was a time when no money at all was being put into the public purse in that area and it also touched on nationalism in one particular scene.
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Post by NewYorkDoll on Mar 14, 2008 18:16:09 GMT
Ah, how could I forget the "It's shite being Scottish!" scene...you make a very valid point about the political ways in Trainspotting...either way still a great film.
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Post by xhayleyx90 on Mar 20, 2008 16:07:56 GMT
woop thankyou very much! all very helpful x |
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Post by eyepennies on Jun 27, 2008 2:35:30 GMT
If you wanted to compare movie violence why not look at a completely off the wall example like A Clockwork Orange. Which emphasises the brutality of youth crime (in the novel I think Alex is 15 and has committed multiple rapes) but at the same time parodies it. It takes the reality of youth violence and makes it hyper real.
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