The most recent films I have watched was American Pie and New years eve which I watched last night (Saturday 28th December 2013). These 2 films have different conventions in contrast to the film we all watched in class; Bling Ring.
The film American Pie is an American movie set in an educational setting where a group of teenagers are in senior year graduating from high school and these individuals have goals they want to achieve before they leave high school at their prom. The main goal in this film was becoming a non-virgin which was the main storyline. This occurs in reality especially in the male gender from the age of 16 when they start learning more about theirs and the opposing gender (female) bodies. Boys are statically more sexually frustrated than girls through the adolescent stage of life. The music in this is more set to the teenage age as its fast paced ad more up beat which has more of a connection to teenagers than adults.
This is due to the different openings and storyline but there are some similarities such as the music and binary oppositions.
Throughout the film there was some binary oppositions such as;
Girls vs. boys
Geeks/nerds vs. cool
Popular vs. unpopular
Virgin vs. non-virgin... and many more different binary oppositions.
These binary oppositions are similar to the binary oppositions in the film Bling Ring from the coolness, the popularity and the groups. There are some different oppositions between these 2 films like, the rich vs. poor and celebrity vs. normal. Another thing that makes these 2 films different is the opening. The opening is different in the Bling Ring and this is because it starts of with groups of pictures put together like an collage these pictures are pictures of shoes, designer clothes, celebrities and accessories and the music is a youthful, fast pace track sounding as if it was a hip hop genre.
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