Today, Mr. Rivers started class by opening up for questions regarding the senior paper. Then, he explained some small changes to our assignment during our viewing of Baby Driver. Our assignment is to describe a choice involving music that affects the film, and to explain what effect it has. For example, for today's section of the film, I focused on the scene where Doc is explaining the plan, and Baby is listening to music instead of him. This shows that music is more important to Baby than what Doc is saying, and further emphasizes Baby's love for music. Along with finding one choice every day, we need to choose two genres that Baby Driver fits into, and explain how it conforms to these genres. One of the genres I chose for example, was the Musical genre. While Baby Driver is certainly not a conventional musical, the film does follow many conventions of the Musical genre. Movement is often synced with the music, such as to gunshots in the "Tequila" scene. This is a common trope in musicals.
Genre films often can be categorized into other genres other than the ones they are already branded with. Take for example the movie Captain America: Winter Soldier by Anthony and Joe Russo. Marvel films like this one are often firmly placed in the action, or superhero movie categories, judging by the large amounts of fighting and prevalence of superheroes. This film can be put into these categories, but it could also be argued that it falls into the political thriller category as well.
Winter Soldier contains deceit, secrecy, and challenges political ideals, all of which are not common in action movies like this one. Many of Marvel's movies can similarly be put into different categories.
No comments:
Post a Comment