This document discusses buddy movies and the author's enjoyment of them. It defines a buddy movie as a comedy genre involving two main characters who are best friends or enemies forced to work together. The author likes buddy movies because they showcase great chemistry between the two leads and allow the audience to relate their friendship to their own best friend. Most buddy movies also include elements of action and comedy as the duo works to defeat bad guys while sharing humorous exchanges. The document then introduces concepts from film theory such as active spectatorship, preferred readings, fandom readings, intertextuality, and pre- and post-viewing experiences.

1. ME AND MY MOVIES
By Jake Vegas - Murphy

2. BUDDY MOVIES
What is a buddy movie? A Buddy movie is a sub
genre of the genre comedy and involves two main
characters who are usually best friends, or enemy’s
who are forced to join up and later become best
friends. Good film examples of this are “Starsky and
Hutch” “21 jump street” and “Lethal Weapon”.

3. WHY I LIKE BUDDY MOVIES
I like buddy movies because of the chemistry that is shown
between the two main characters because they work so well
together. Also you can sort of link this with you and your best friend
in the sense of always having their back having a good time
together.
With Buddy Movies it usually links with Action comedy because with
most buddy films it’s two do with two cops and with this they have
to work together to defeat the bad guys so we expect explosions a
cool bad guy and humours comedy between the two main
characters.

4. ACTIVE SPECTATORSHIP
 This when the audience already kind of know what to expect
from the film. Active spectatorship visuals are films that follow a
non-linear narrative.

5. PREFERRED READINGS
 This is how the director wants to see his film through the eyes of his
audience, this is so the director can see if the audience will get
what the director is trying to do.

6. FANDOM READINGS
 This means a group of fans who have the similar taste in for
example film sports celebrities etc. With Fandom readings you
can find blogs etc. that keep up to date with their similar
interests.

7. INTERTEXTUALITY
 Intertextuality is whereby other films are referenced to past films
which is well-known to an audience.

8. PRE AND POST-VIEWING EXPERIENCES
 Pre-viewing is the experience before they watch the film and
post viewing is the experience after watching the film.