This quote made by Steve Neale means that the accustoms that occur in genres normally repeat itself in every movie within that genre. For example Psychological thriller movies normally consist with characters that have relationship problems, problems with their identity such as the movie 'The Silence of the lamb' with the villain battling his gender identity wanting to see himself being a woman rather than a man. It also consist of characters having an issue with their mental state or having psychological problems such as the movie the ' Black Swan' where the protagonist auditioned for two roles which was the white swan and the black swan. They told her she suited the role for the white swan but not the black swan because her personality didn't fit well with the role so she try to become more like the black swan but ended up messing up her state of mind causing her to mix her imagination with reality.
Psychological thrillers repeat the themes of reality, identity, perception, mind, death, existence/purpose.
The differences within these psychological thriller movies are the narrative. Some movies within this genre have different elements to other genre as well such as Horror, drama, mystery, action or psychological horror. This also gives characters a different tone for example a character within a psychological thriller movie that has elements from a horror drama will have a dark, psychological problem to a character within a psychological thriller with elements from the genre of drama which will give soft dark tone. Plus the mise en scene will be different for instance the narratives within a psychological thriller with elements of drama will consist of more action, tension and problem solving such as Hannibal which the narrative consist of more suspense, detective problem solving and a character being resistant to good nature and the props that will be used will not be as violent as psychological thriller with horror elements. Psychological thriller with horror elements would consist of a psychopathic killer with a dark tone and the props that would be used would be a violent object such as a knife or blood.Furthermore this genre theorist can relate to out narrative because of the fact that we've repeated elements of a psychological thriller movie for example scientific elements such as experiments, laboratory clothing and equipment which was also done in Hannibal Rising movie which was also shown in the trailer where Hannibal was wearing a laboratory jacket in a laboratory room. Another repetitive element is that our main character has psychological problems and is mentally unstable which is shown in many movies within this genre such as The silence of the lambs, Hannibal Rising, and Black Swan where the main character of the movie had psychological problems which made her mentally unstable.
A difference for us is that he is able to get justice in the narrative in a peaceful way which challenges the hegemony of this genre because of the time the character ends up getting revenge for example in Hannibal Rising, the main character get's his justice by violent acts used in revenge. So our narrative playing out in this way shows how we made a difference and became a counter hegemony.
'Genres should not be understood as rules or restrictions'
This quote made by Henry Jenkins means that a movie representing a genre can fulfill it's full representation when being undermined by rules and restrictions. If a psychological thriller had to restrict what to put that is part of the norms and values of the genre then it will be hard for the movie normally to represent it's genre through it's narrative.
No comments:
Post a Comment