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textual analysis of an opening scene - war

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textual analysis of an opening scene - war

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  1. Opening scene research task - WAR THE GREAT ESCAPE By raff Jackson

  2. THE GREAT ESCAPE

  3. Why The Great Escape? • Seeing as the theme was war, I thought to myself, what’s the greatest war film I’ve ever seen, I thought to myself, “saving private Ryan”, But I then thought too may people will be writing about that, so I resorted to the second-best war film. • Which was – THE GREAT ESCAPE

  4. Why The Great Escape? • I decided to chose The Great Escape as it was, not only a good war film, but a very good film in general, it takes me back to the 40s, and I wasn’t even there!!! • The Great Escape isn’t your conventional war film, its different, but in a very good way. • It does not have as much shooting and actual war as other films in this genre may have • Instead, it tells a story of allied escape, successful or not, it keeps you on the edge of your seat. • Even the dialogue keeps you listening as you want to hear more about the escape!!!!!

  5. Why The Great Escape? • As the film isn’t your conventional war film, there’s so much more for me to talk about as it is different to what you are used to • The film has so many links and aspects that match up and lead the audience into stay watching as they don’t want to miss a single thing about the escape. • Even the opening sequence gives us so much insight into what is going to come

  6. Key institution information • Studio = The Mirisch Company • Director = John Sturges • Year = 1963 • Main cast = Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, James Garner, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence • it was based on a book by Paul Brickhill • The screen play was written by James Garner

  7. What narrative is given to us, and what do expect the rest of the films narrative will be from the little information we have seen? • The narrative that is given to us is a big group of allied soldiers in ww2 turning up to a prisoner of war camp, we can see these soldiers/prisoners walking around looking for ways to escape. • We can tell that the narrative is going to stay the same throughout the film, we can clearly see that this film is going to be about these men attempting to escape this camp and then eventually working together to get it done. • However, we cannot see how quickly the men will escape and if they even do, from this first scene.

  8. Who is the target audience for this film and how do we know this from the opening scene? • In my opinion, I think the target audience for this film is primarily adults and older people as it came out in the 60s, only 20 years after world war 2, which means a lot of people that were in the war will want to watch the film as it might take them back. • However, I feel like the film also generated a younger audience as well, as they may be curious as to what being in world war 2 might have been like as some of their relatives may have been in it.

  9. How has the genre of the film been set up in the opening scene? • It has been set up very well as us as the viewer can clearly see that this is a war film due to the soldiers and the guns and guard towers, even the music helps convey the message that this is a war film. The fact the the soldiers want to escape shows us as the viewers that they fear death and want to get back to the war and fight more for their country!

  10. How many characters are introduced and what do we know about them • We are not properly introduced to any specific characters, but we do know a lot about these characters. • The characters are clearly British/allied prisoners of war, they are also very clear moments where we are shown that the guards are German soldiers. • We can also very clearly see that these soldiers/allies are highly intelligent as they have such a high level of security surrounding them • We are shown the allies looking around the camp, most probably • looking for ways to escape.

  11. Do I think this is a successful opening scene? • Yes, in my opinion I do think this is a very successful opening sequence, this is because it very successfully portrays the rest of the film's narrative, we can see that the whole plot of the film is the allied escape, very clearly.

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