Film Fiction Sky Fall from 2012, directed by Sam Mendez, is an action/spy thriller starring James Bond. While conforming to some genre codes like exotic locations, weapons, and a heroic protagonist, the film breaks conventions in several ways: it features non-stop action throughout instead of isolated scenes, Bond is shot in an unexpected setting on a train, and the villain dies in an unusually violent explosion rather than a standard final confrontation.

1. Film title Film Fiction Sky Fall
Director Sam Mendez
Year 2012
Genre Action / spy thriller
Area of Analysis Example Technical feature (Camera/sound/mise en scene/
editing)
Conforms to genre? Y/N Breaks conformity? Y/N
If yes, how?
Codes and conventions
Scenes featuring action Explosion and Weapons featured such as
guns and knives fast paced scenes and a lot
of quick cuts these are specialties in editing.
yes Yes it breaks the conformity
because there is non-stop
action throughout the whole
film.
Setting
Exotic locations foreign
countries london
Island, trees waterfall, deserts and yacht yes It breaks conformity in some
parts of the film such as
when he is abroad and gets
shot as he is on a moving
train that is and exotic place
that part breaks conformity/
Character
Hero and a villain and
beautiful women
Dressing smart by wearing a suit and the
foreign with a different accent.
yes It breaks conformity
characteristic wise because in
the movie they are smartly
dressed in the scene where
there at the party
Themes
Crime and solving crimes
Death violence
The villain dies at the end and the people
who were in the building as the explosion
went off
yes It breaks to conformity
because this is the way the
villan dies and it ensures
violence and explotions.
Narrative
Linear narrative It starts off with James bond in a train looking
and trying to kill the villain then ends up
getting shot of another member of the force
and couple weeks later after everyone think
he was dead he came back to action after
training to get his touch back and
yes I have watched the movie at
the cinemas and this is how
the stry goes on so in that
case it breaks conformity.

2. immediately was in the front line and
continued on the same mission at the end
the villain dies and the hero lives.
Iconography
London buildings bridges At the beginning of the movie it was filmed in
a different location outside the UK where as
in the first quarter of the movie it was filmed
in the uk you can easily tell by looking at the
buildings and the weather and the accent.
yes It conforms because I have
watched the movie and it
was showing the big ben that
is the icon of London and
based on that it breaks to
conformity.
Ideological message
‘Serve the queen’ was
the message sent out to
me
They were protecting the women in
charge they treated as if she was the
queen and also protecting their city
‘ London’
yes It breaks to conformity
because they actually
protect her.