Priest Horror Trailer Evaluation Part 3

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Dawn Of The Dead 2004 Outside The Mall

This scene from dawn of the dead is when the zombies have just started taking over the world, they escape them by hiding in the mall. This uses institutional context as consumerism in america is popular and the film tries to get this across.

This also uses the narrative loneliness and isolation as the characters are all alone in the mall together and isolated from the outside world.

This scene uses Propp & Todorov's narrative theory as the equilibrium of the film is disrupted by the zombie attack on the world. This was proven in their book Morphology of the Folktale (1928). The common characters that reoccur in most films is the economy of narration which is the zombie outbreak, the goal-directed protagonist which is the survivors such as Anna, Kenneth and Michael. The antagonist the zombies.

Dawn Of The Dead 2004 Escape On Boat

This scene is one of the final ones in the film, where the survivors escape the zombies on the boat leaving Michael behind as been bitten by one of the zombies. This scene uses Cinematography of Close Ups on Anna's face to show the emotions on her face when she says goodbye to Michael who she has fallen for since the zombie apocalypse began. The scene also uses Historical Context as the american flag is shown in the background to depict freedom of them escaping from the zombies. Which could mean the terrorists as the war in Afghanistan began about the time the film was released and the terrorists are depicted as the zombies in the film. This proves Janet Staiger Audience Studies (Interpreting Films 1992) which is that different audiences react differently to the same film, as the audience at the time will still be concerned about terrorists as 9/11 is still in their minds so the flag in the background shows that America is freedom from the zombies in the film.