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1. Introduction
In the film Leon there is a 3 act linear structure that is very easy to follow. In the starting opening of
the film you really get an understanding of who Leon is and what he does for a living. The very
starting scene is a tracking shot which moves across central park. This is using iconography because
the park is iconic to New York City and this sets the scene right from the start of the film. The
opening 20 minutes establishes genre, character, and setting. When Leon starts there is a scene with
a gangster mob boss or something like that. This shows us that the film is going to be violent
because they are talking about arranging to kill someone. Leon’s character is very mysterious in the
first 20 minutes. When the action actually starts its very similar to a James bond movie with all the
sneaking around and the amount of violence.
In this scene there is abit in the end where he catches the main drug lord and has a knife on one side
of him and a phone on the other. This shows life and death as if he doesn’t ring this person that Leon
is telling him to do then he will die. This is called binary opposition. I think this is also used in leons
plant. He takes care of the plant. Whilst he takes care of himself. When Mathilda comes into his
house the plant seems to go a little bit unhealthier as he is doing things with Mathilda like playing
games and stuff like that. And the main give away is when Mathilda plants the plant at the end of
the film and calls the plant Leon after he has died. Showing Leon will live on in the future.
The iconography in the movie is quite common because most hitman movies have a mobster boss.
And they are always set in a big city like New York or London or some other well-known city. This is
what most action thrillers are set in these massive cities. It is also iconic that there is a gun at the
start. This is also commom in action thrillers because the starting 20 minutes is an action scene. This
is similar to a james bond movie.
You can tell the age of the film by how old Natalie Portman is in the film. She is about 12 years old in
the movie and people have known to know her in films such as star wars and the black swan.

2. Leon
The director is Luc Besson
The year it came out was 1994
The film Leon is mainly based around a girl named Mathilda. Her family got killed through a drug
matter and her neighbour Leon is a professional hitman. The best in the business. Leon takes the girl
into his life and teaches her how to protect herself and how to get fit. After a while Mathilda realises
she is falling in love for the first time. After the corrupt cop stansfeild (who murdered Mathildas
family) then comes after leon because leon killed nearly all of his corrupt friends and additionally
they were cops. This making leon a known criminal. Stansfeild brings all the departments to leons
flat to try and take him out. However leon dosent go without a fight. He manages to take out a lot of
the forces and then has the brilliant idea to disguise himself as a police officer because knowbody
actually knows what he looks like.
Act 1- Exposition
Inciting incident
Act 2- Rising action
Climax
Act 3- falling action
Denouement

3. Pulp fiction
Pulp fiction was made in 1994 by Quentin Tarantino starring john Travolta and Samuel
L. Jackson.
Pulp fiction is with Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega who are two hit men who receive a
suitcase which has been stolen from the boss Marcellus Wallace, who asked Vincent to
take his wife out when himself and Wallace were out of town then butch Coolidge is a
boxer who is paid by Marcellus to lose his next fight, over all the film is just about events
which do not ream related that become woven together with lots of bizarre incidents.
In the film there are some postmodern features that are used in the film pulp fiction. One of the
features is intertexuality. This is references to other films, in the film the links to other movies are to
grease and reservoir dogs. The way john Travolta and uma Thurman are sat in the car park in the

4. roof less car and the way the camera is placed looks very similar to the drive in movie scene in
grease where sandy and danny are on their first date. Another link to grease in when Vincent and
mrs Wallace walk in to jack rabbit slims you see in the background a woman dressed as a pink lady.
Another film that is linked is 7 year itch which is a film starring marylin Monroe who has her most
famous scene where the air blows up her dress. This is replayed in the bar at jack rabbit slims.
A separate feature is parody this is where a film is copying other films in a funny way. One thing I
found really funny was the way they brought john Travolta to play the part of Vincent. The reason
this is funny is because in jack rabbit slims him and Uma Thurman have to do a dance scene. John
Travolta became a star when he stared in Saturday night fever in this he is a great disco dancer and
looks extremely young and healthy. Whereas in pulp fiction he is quite fat and has aged allot. Bare in
mind john Travolta hasn’t danced in about 15 years and making him dance again in a much more
serious movie is hilarious.
Most of the scene is set in the 1960s however thre people that are there in the restaurant
are all dressed as if they are from the 1990sTaking drugs in toilet looks 1990s however the
people that are around her look 1950s.this is a mix of eras.
Another reference is called Self-referentiality. This is where in the film the director has
placed things in that refer to other films. For instance Uma Thurman talks about Fox force
five this is a tv show in pulp fiction. However the way she describes the film is like she is
talking about kill bill this is a movie made later in the future.