Case Study

Body of Lies

Part i

The thriller we are doing is the film body of lies; it was directed by Ridley Scott. Companies such as Warner Bros, Pictures, Scott Free Productions and De Line Pictures were involved with the making of this film. Its time in the cinemas, it made a total of $39,380,442, which was less than it cost to make, which was an estimated $70,000,000).It was released into the UK on the 21 of November 2008.

Part ii

Once I had finished watching this film, I feel that its target audience is very big as there’s everything to gun fight to skillful operations. That would cover a lot of people genres. I think I would recommend this feel this film to teenagers upwards as there are violence scenes that wouldn’t be appropriate to the younger generation.

Part iii

With the technology nowadays, such as the Internet I found that it has helped the target audience to get a feel for the film, and gather information about it much quicker with such websites as Wikipedia and IMBD; they had all of the information about the director of the film, the cast and the production company. Also with this access to the film information timings on when to view the particular film you want to see this creates very easy to watch a film with the technology had nowadays.

Part iv

The film starts with a quote from W.H Auden saying ‘’I and the public know what all school children learn, Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return. This really shows the audience what type of film this is, as I get the feeling from that quote that there is going to be a lot of anger presented to the viewers, it then fades out and tells you the location Manchester, England with a heavy thud off bass, this makes a dramatic moment creating the audience to feel intimidated.

The black effect then gently fades onto a Arabic man and his face is faded by the shadow given us the impression that we shouldn’t know who he is to also back this up a gun can been seen next to him showing that this is not a good person, also by him speaking him in Arabic it gives us a sense of anger and change as the eastern culture is very different to the western. As he is speaking to no one in view of the camera you get the feeling he is addressing us about something serious. This film is set for the more opened minded people as terrorism is main part of the film, and it could affect a large majority of people who have been affected by it.

 After the Arabic man speaking, it drifts in to a messy un refurbished house maybe showing the owner is poor, the camera movement also is very slow when entering the house making us feel like we shouldn’t be there. When the camera turn round the corner into the room we find a table jam packed with chemical bowls and other dangerous equipment, the person sitting there also lifts his head up given us this impression that we can’ be seen and also showing us that he is obviously committing a bad crime due to his nervousness and his sweaty face.

The camera then switches on to polices vehicles and swat team, making the audience realise something serious is happening. Even though nothing appears to be happening such as gun fire around the landscape makes you think that there is a more under lying situation happening keeping the viewer interested. A milk van drives through after beening checked the camera films a close upshot of it when driving up to the scene of the antics they would make the viewer suspicious, as it appears to be dangerous.

The Special police force go in with stealth this is when the camera angle go to quick shots, allowing  different angles to be viewed. Creating a chaotic atmosphere indicating a bad incidence may occur. Due to the noises of the swat team the Arabic people hear, this is when one shouts to the other, waking him up very quickly showing that he has to be on his toes ,indicating a bunch of dangerous people. One of them detonates the bomb blowing the whole house up killing majority of the swat force. (END)

Part V
There can be some stereo typical issues in this film due to it beaning set in the middle east, but there are trust worthy people there as there are eastern people working for the USA government showing that we can't judge people on what they look like.