TODOROV THEORY

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From researching todorov's theory i have found that a perfect example of this theory is the film, 'Die Hard'.

They have shown how the film has followed todorov's theory by writing it out.

1. John McClane (Bruce Willis) is coming home to his family for Christmas and all is calm. (The equilibrium)
2. Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) and his team of terrorists take over the nakatomi building which is hosting a Christmas part of which McClane and his wife are attending.
3. (2 points of recognition) McClane isn't in the room when the terrorsits storm in so is able to move up the builiding when he hears screaming. People outside of the building realise there's a disruption when a police man's car is shot at from the building.
4. The police try sending in a SWAT team in which fails. The situation is solved by John McClane throwing Gruber out of a high floor window which kills him.
5. The equilibrium is restored when the police got McClane, his wife and the other hostages out of the building, and the McClanes leave in a police car.

Christmas consumerism and the role of the media

As soon as Halloween is over the Christmas adverts start to appear. Some more famous than others. A company well known for their Christmas adverts is John Lewis. Year after year John Lewis seem to produce heart-warming adverts that really get people into the Christmas spirit. They tend to make the adverts fairly touching to make the viewer relate to the advert. However the company really do not care about the advert, they honestly just care about their sales at Christmas. The whole point of the advert is not to make the audience happy and emotional, but to make the audience purchase things from the store. This year John Lewis were very clever to make a whole new character up for their advert, ‘Monty’. Monty is a penguin featured on the advert and is now available in store for shockingly high prices. John Lewis is just an example of this consumerism within companies, they are not the only company, and hundreds of companies do this worldwide.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iccscUFY860

'Grayson Perry: Who Are You?' - Response

Teen horror idea

Teen horror idea An idea that I have come up with for my teen horror TV series is to have a group of teens/young adults visit a theme park on the last day before it closes for the winter season. The group of teens are university students so they decided to go in celebration of their Christmas holidays starting. The teens are all very adventurous and mischievous. Because it gets dark earlier in the winter, the theme park closes earlier but they did not know that as they had been their numerous amounts of times before over the summer. As the theme park was dark the teens get confused as to why it is fairly quiet and no rides are running. Then they realise they have been locked in the theme park. All of their phones had run out of battery and there was no way of contacting anyone. None of their families knew where they had gone but they thought they would be returning home that evening since they had broken up for the holidays. As late night approaches the theme park gets colder and spookier. Some of the teens spot supernatural sightings. As the teens become more and more desperate for food to survive they might even turn on each other as a food source. I could play with this whole idea by adding in more horror like scenarios and more ghosts and supernatural things within the theme park.

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