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1. PR3 how we respond to media productions
Leon
P1 we respond to media productions in many ways some of the approaches may be in the manner in
which we analyse .genre, narrative, semiotics and representation.
Genre –in this movie the genre is an action thriller with hints of a drama .This is shown by recurring
themes throughout such as guns, violence and vengeance .
Narrative- the narrative structure is an3 act linier story this is split into 3 acts with act 1 exposition
then followed by inciting incident then act 2 rising action then the climax then the final act being
falling action followed by the denouement .The case of Leon the story structure is located bellow.
Semiotics – On the poster of Leon the colours on it are red and black .These colours are meant to
symbolise things .The red means blood and violence this shows us that it is probably going to have
action involved .The colour black can be used to symbolise death darkness and misery .This shows
that it probably won’t be a happy movie .
Representation- this movie use Representation well in the movie for example with gender .In a lot of
action movies women are represented as being good looking women who need to be saved by the
main character .But in Leon the female protagonist is a strong confident young girl who want
revenge for her father’s death .
P2 I will be talking about the topics above and how they effected to movie.
Leon(professional international) is a movie that was released in 1994(1995 in the UK)this was
directed by the French director Luc Besson .There was some star actors that was in this movie Jean
Reno who plays the main protagonist Leon , Gary Oldman played the role as the antagonist
Stansfield. This movie was also the debut of Nataly Portman who played the role of Mathilda when
she was 12 years old..
The story line of Leon was as followed .
act 1 the exposition we see Leon an Mathilda being introduces .With Leon it shows of him using his
skills to kill a group of gangsters .We hen learn about Mathilda family life and how she has a
desorbing family life . Then there is some inciting incident that takes place in this act. The incident
that happens is the murder of Mathilda’s mother, Father, sister and her 8 year old brother .
Act 2 In this act we start to see the rising action of the movie the first thing we see is Mathilda gets
taken in by Leon in order to protect her from the crocked cops that killed her family .Once she found
out what Leon’s job is she ask him to train her in “cleaning ” the reason for this is because she want
revenge for her brother which is a very conventional plot line in action thrillers .At first he denies her
training but in the end he starts to show her how to do it .
Climax this is set up by Mathilda going to try to kill Stansfield in order to avenge her family’s death
but she fails to do so. This leads Leon to killing one of Stansfield’s colleges and brakes Mathilda out
of police custody. Because of this Stanfield gets the SWAT team to attack the hotel where Leon is

2. staying in. This becomes a shootout which is the main part of the climax which ends with Leon killing
Stanfield along with himself with a grenade .
Act 3 Falling Action this is the part where Mathilda goes to Tony Leon’s contractor who gives her
some of the money that he has held onto for Leon this means that she is pretty much set for life .She
also starts to get her life back on track by going back to a private school.
Denouement this is the ending of the movie in this part Mathilda plants Leon’s plant in the ground
this shows that although it is a movie about death there is still new life in the end .
P3
Setting – The setting for this movie Is New York city which is very conventional for an action movie
because they are always set in large cities. It’s also usually in a place with a large population of
people .Its a very iconic place that people will know the look of it and guess the location of the movie
within the first 30 seconds .It is shown by the iconic skyline.
Character - the characters is in this movie is considered to be unconventional than in most other
action thrillers .For example with the main character Leon in most action movies the main hero is
usually a smooth talking ,good looking guy just like James bond is .Whereas Leon dose not talk much
during and you barely see his face during the first half of the movie because it is covered up by his
glasses .Also in a lot of these types of movies the main character is usually a good guy fighting
against evil whereas Leon could be considered as being an antihero considering that he “cleans”. The
other main character female is a unconventional character .In most action movies the female tends
to be a young attractive woman who usually falls in love with the main character. Whereas Mathilda
is a 12 year old girl who want revenge after a group of corrupt police killed her brother .Her and
Leon developed a father daughter type relationship but there were hints throughout the movie that
suggest that Mathilda wanted something more .
Iconography –these are things that are seen on the movie that are iconic to the movie genre for
example in the first 10 minutes of the movie we see a gun fight which is very iconic to these types of
movies .There is also a scene in the movie that has Leon holding a gun to a gangsters head and has
the gangster trying to call 999 this symbols life and death which is what the movies theme is .Life
being the phone with the police on the other end giving life .And a gun only used to bring death .This
is also used with Leon plant with somebody who only used to take life is protecting life within the
plant .At the end of the movie Mathilda plants Leon’s plant in the ground to symbolise that even
though Leon died life still grows .
Style- This movie kept a constant style of having a theme of life and death and they did this by
making Leon someone who’s job is to kill and remove life ,help protect two life’s with Mathilda and
the plant .One of the styles of the movie is to be unconvential with the characters that are in the
movie .Anther one is that we don’t see Leon face much in the movie this is done because the
director wanted to add some mystery with his character .
Troy

3. P1
Genre- The genre of this movie is an action, adventure and historical movie. There are several
ongoing themes of swords spears and horse .
Narrative- Just like Leon this movie keeps the same 3 act liner story line with exposition, rising action
and then the falling action I shall show the 3 act structure in p2.
Semiotics- The first sign that we see that this is an historic action movie is the title “troy” this shows
us what type of movie it would be and where it is set it also gives us the insight to Homers Odyssey
so those who know about his story of troy with the wooden horse . There are also a lot of mentions
to the Greek gods and goddess with the movie mentioning Apollo the god of light, Athena the
goddess of wisdom and Poseidon the god of the sea .This shows us the time when the movie was set
and where.
Representation- In this movie gender is represented quite badly there is only really three important
female roles in the movie compared to the large cast of males .And even the three women are only
really used as romance towards the three main characters . Also two of them could be considered as
being prisoners Paris cousin was being held captive in the Greek camp and Hellen could be
considered as being a captured of troy with a whole army trying to take her back to Sparta .
P2
Troy was received on the 14th of May 2004 and was directed by Wolfgang Petersen with music by
James Horner. The movie is a historical action movie which stars Orlando Bloom who plays one of
the protagonists, Eric Bana the other protagonist, Brad Pitt who plays the anti-hero and Diane
Kruger the female protagonist.
Act 1 exasperation this is how the movie starts off by explaining the characters I would say that troy
had two parts of the exposition .The first part was with Paris (prince of troy) sleeping with Menelaus
wife Hellen and running off with her leading to a war between Greece and Troy .We also see Achilles
fighting as a champion for the Greeks in a battle which shows us that he is the best warrior in the
whole of Greek .
Act 2 rising action during this part of the movie a lot happens first the Greek Armada assembles and
attacks the coast of troy which allows them to camp of the beaches of troy for their campaign
.Achilles captures a Trojan priestess who is also Paris cousin .Then there is a duel between Paris and
Menelaus over the love of Hellen and to end the war although Agamemnon planned to attack troy
weather he won or lost .The inexperience Paris lost the battle with Menelaus but was saved when
Hector (price of troy) intervened by killing Menelaus .The Greeks then fought and lost against the
Trojan fours’ with Hector killing Ajax the great .after the battle the Trojans suggested a counter
attack at the Greeks camp later that night during this the Trojans beat the Greeks in their camp
.Hector fought and killed someone who he thought was Achilles but turned out the be Achilles
cousin Patroclus. Because of this both the Greeks and the Trojans agree to end the battle there.
Climax – because of the death of Patroclus Achilles heads towards the city of troy and demands that
Hector fights him in single combat .Hector agrees and gets killed by Achilles after their battle Achilles
ties his body to his chariot and rides of showing disrespect towards him .

4. Act 3 falling action – On this part we see that the Greeks was meant to leave Troy and left behind a
wooden horse as a gift to Poseidon .The trogons come upon this and suggest that they should take it
into their temple as a gift to the gods .Paris disagrees and says that they should burn it .The Trojans
go against Paris judgment and brings it to their temple .Later that night Greek solders come out of
the wooden horse and open to gate to allow the Greek army in .This leads to the sack of the city of
troy .Paris and Hellen try to escape trough underground tunnels along with others .
Denouement- this is the ending of the movie where Paris shoots Achilles with arrows multiple times
until he shoots him in the heel and kills him.
P3
Setting – The setting of the movie can be quite conventional with action historical movies. For
example we see a Greek temple which shows us that it is obviously set in Greece .This can show the
viewer’s where this movie is set since this is such an iconic building.
Character – the characters within this movie are very conventional in the way they are acted out .For
example the two of the main characters hector and Achilles. Both shear similar characteristics .They
are both strong and powerful characters who are considered as the strongest warrior from both
sides. This can be considered as being conventional in historic action movies with having strong
characters that can’t be defeated. The female protagonist is also considered to be conventional
because she is seen as being a damsel in distress that people need to protect this could be given as
being a bad message.
Iconography – There are several things that this movie has that are iconic to the genre of the movie.
For starters the weapons that are used during the movie gladius, javelins and chariots these are
considered as being iconic tools that are related to this era that the movie is set in.
Style- throughout the movie they keep a constant style .One of the themes that this movie dose is
love and war. During the movie there are three love interest going on in a time of war this Is a way of
saying that even I war love can still provable . They also keep to the same theme of a Greek tragedy
they did this by killing off main characters and the ending when the Greeks set fire to the city of
Troy.
Pulp Fiction
Pulp fiction is a crime drama thriller movie that was directed by Quentin Tarantino. This came out in
1994 some of the main cast are as follow Samael l Jackson, John Travolta and Bruce Willis .the movie
is a non-liner episodic story this means that the movie is told in episodes and might not be told in
the right order which means that some characters might die on one part of the movie but then
return on another because It has not been told in the correct order. So one of the good things about
this movie is trying to piece out the order of the movie.
I shall now talk about the storyline as if it was set in a normal narrative story line .
the exposition of the movie is Bruce’s dads friend giving him a watch . Alight this Is the begging of
the movie it dose not show this scene for about a hour Into the film .There is also the part where
John travolter and Samael L Jackson gose to take back the the briff case .

5. This is where the rising action starts Johns character shoot someone and they need to dispose of the
evidence . So they ring up a fixer to help deal with the problem . Once this happens they go to a
dinner which two people are about to rob . Although in order this part of the movie should be in the
middle . In the film this part is shown at the begin and the end .they pay the robbers to leave after
threatening them and this is then considered to be the end of the movie but if we did it in the
correct order then the movie carry’s on
They then go and return to case to there boss marcel . This is where they meet the character Butch
played by Bruce Willis who is told to fake a fall in one of his boxing matches . He dose not do this so
marcel sends johns character to kill him this could be considered as being a second rising action .
Butch goes back to his old house where Johns character is waiting for him which leads to Butch
killing Johns character , this scene happens before the diner scene this makes johns character die
and then come back in a later scene .
This is now where the falling action takes place . butch trys to kill marcel but fails and ends up being
captured and taken to a sex dungeon . Butch mangers to escape from the sex dungeon and saves
marcel from them which makes marcel say that they a even and tells him to leave the city
This leads up the final Denouement with butch and his girlfriend leaving on a motor bike . Although
this is the ending of the story this only happens half way through the movie
Post modalism
Pulp fiction uses a lot of post modalism to make references to other parts of the media . For example
the director uses multiple different types of intertextuality to link this movie to other souses of
media .An example of this is that they use the same mise en scene as in Grease they have done this
by having the same car scene as grease as well as having references to the pink lades form Grease .
Tarantino used people dressed up as old stars from the 50s to 80s to make references to them and
their time .For example they had the famous Marylyn Monroe vent scene from the film seven year
itch . This would be playing homages towards the director of that movie Billy Wilder this would be a
Pastiche.
There is a scene within pulp fiction which makes a parody of John Trovota dancing . This is because
in one of his earlier movies Saturday night he had a major dancing roll . But now as he has gotten
older and more out of shape he makes a parody of him doing some bad dancing like what and old
man would . This movie also uses Reflexivity this is done on the part where she draws a square on
the screen . This brakes the 4th line and shows that the camera is there .
Quentin Tarantino always makes some self referentiality in all of his moves . He does this to give the
audience hints about his new moves and old ones. For example in the case of Pulp fiction Tarantino
gives hints about a movie that he had not made at the time Kill Bill . This was done when they was
talking at the restoront John Trovotas asked mia about her the time she did a pilot and she started
talking about assassin women that is a reference to Kill Bill