The Warp film that I will be looking at is Dead Man's
Shoes directed by Shane Meadows and staring Paddy Considine.
Purpose
The purpose of the film
is to entertain the viewer and for Warp to make a profit. There is
a underlining theme of bullying throw out the film, they may
have also been trying to get across the physiological affect of
bullying.I think that there was also other message of taking advantage
of people throw fear or just don't know any better. There are
also some others theme
talked about in the film to do with religion.
Genre
The
genre of the film is a dark psychological thriller. The film is dark because of
the theme that it covers like drug users/abuse, people being focused to
have sex, bullying and suicide. It's a psychological because of events
that happen throw the film you see in a different light after the films
climax. The film is a thriller because of the scenes where the
main character Richard played by Paddy Considine stalks drug deals throw
out the film, When these scenes happen every thing is shown from the drug
deals point of view so you know as much as them. You never know when one of
them is going to die a couple of time in the second one leaves the
group they turn up dead in the next scene.
The
film is rather short as it clocks in at 1:26:28. This is rather short for
normal films as the convention was for a film to be about 2 hours long give or
take a couple of minutes. It was a rather small film because of
Warp being a small studio at the time there was not much of a buzz about the
film. This was because at the time this was their first big budget film as
beforehand they had only made short films.
Style
Dead Mans Shoes was
Warp's first full feature film. This is where they made there style of realism and grittiness. Their film have a
very heavy focus on people in working class backgrounds and Dead Mans
Shoes is no exception. The film is very gritty as all of the film has lots
of dark grays and browns and this is the norm for most of Warp
films.
There is a double helix style of story tell in this film, by
this I mean there are two story's being told thought out
the film that are connected to one and other. This is done
by setting the bulk of the film in present day and the
second story is being told throw flash backs. Each of
the story's is focused on one of the two brother.
Content
The
film start off with its opening credits, they are rolling over what looks to a
family film from the 80's presumably the main protagonist's of when he was
a young child with his little brother. Throw out it is alternating the two
brothers walking down a country path. The film is split up in to five days,
of which the main character stalks and then kills a small
group of men. The film doesn't have a lot of locations, it starts off in
a abandon farm then village, snooker hall and a number of houses that all
looked very similar and ends out side of a church. The film
starts off with the two brothers talking in there new home an abandon farm.
They then walk throw the nearby village and try to find the men that took
advantage of the younger brother. They find one dealing drugs in a snooker
hall/pub. He then finds all the other men and terrorizes all of them in the
night. Spray Painting them and scaring them when they are high on drugs.
He then proceeds to kill all of them one by one until there is
just on leafed and we as the viewer then finds out some new information that
make me/us view the film in a new light. The film is rather gory at time
like when it shows a body that has be mangled with an
axe. I thought that the acting in the film was top tear, every
thing that was said was performed perfectly by Paddy Considine, every
thing he say is filled with emotional and you will
feel like he is on the edge and is about to just kill everyone, I also got the seance that he has no regard for his own life. Toby Kebbell gives a good performance as Anthony who is the younger brother,
his character has some mental problems which
are never stated but from his performance it seamed very natural
and not forced at all, from his jesters and to the dialect it
never comes off as novice. Paddy Considine character Richard has meant to
have just leafed the army and this is shown in his costume.
The
two main things that show this is
his army jacket and boots. One of the
props
he has is a combat knife which he could have obtained when he was in
the army. Inter laced throw out the film are flash backs depicting the event leading up to Anthony death. All of these seance are in black and white, I think that this has been done for two reasons one to have clear seance of when the will was in a flash back and two to give the feel that it is not the present and making it black and white gives the impression to me that it is older.
Meaning
I
got a lot of the meaning behind the from the opening credits. The
fact that it starts off with a film that is of a family playing tells me that
the bond of family will be prominent throw the film. This may give the view
some type of sympathy to the character if they have
a similar family bond in there life. There are a lot of establishing shot
in the film of the quint village that the film is set in. I think that this is
meant to connote to the reader that ever in small little villages in the countryside
thing bad thing still happen. I think that this is reinforced in
later scenes of the film where Anthony is with the group of drug deals and
is having fun one minute and the next is being bullied or
taken advantage seconds later. This is accomplished throw
the editing of the film as these scenes are also flash backs they are made with
a very fast pace with each shot only being there for a couple of seconds. In
later scenes when people or found dead or being killed the entire color starts
to fade and there are just lots of grays and browns. I think that this
film has uses it preferred meaning thought out most of this feature
film as there are only a couple of time in it that they
ever explain anything. A very good example of this is the ending to
the film where a member of the gang that bulled Anthony is talking to his wife about what
they did to him when they terrorized him.
He does not say all that much because most of
it is just black and white flash backs with
just music but throw the shot types and camera angles used I got that
this man had serous regrets about what happened. They did this by
putting closes up of him and his wife alternating. This was done to give
you the full frontal impact of how they are felling. The man brakes down
and his is truly horrified by what she is hearing. I think that this
connotes to the listener and that they will be feel sad and may even cry
as before we hand never really new what happened until this
point. When the film is in a flash back and Anthony is being abused the levels of the act increases as the film goes on, this mirrors his brother as the whys he kills the members of the gang increases in violence as the film goes on.
Production process
The film location was
most likely chosen because this was Warps first feature film and there
would have been budget concerts so rather it being filmed in the heart of
London where the rates for filming on location is much higher they would end up
spend most of there money on that alone but filming in a little town in
the country side would be a lot more ideal for what they where planning and I
think it would not have been as good if it was filmed in any other type of
area. I think that the costumes where very well done I got the idea that every
one in the film was working class or below, as nearly all of
the characters wear tracksuits. The exception to this is sonny
(the antagonist of the film). Sonny wears a nice leaver jacket he
would most likely have the most money out of everyone in the film as he is the
leader of the drug deal so i would think that he get the biggest cut of
the money. As I said be fore Richard wears a army jacket and boots. This is to
always reiterate that he was once in the army. I
think that it was done to give the viewer a better understanding of
the character and that he is trained in the art of war and could bet them even
if he is out numbered and out gunned. The filming took place over 3
weeks and Toby Kebbell was not casted until a week before filming and his entire scene where filmed
in the third week. The flash backs would have been easy to set out if they had done proper pre-production, as they would have had to make story boards for the films story this is where they could play around with where the flash backs will happen. They could find the best place to put the flash back by using story boards, places where i has the biggest impacts in relevance to the rest of the film.
The purpose of the film is to entertain the viewer and for Warp to make a profit. There is a underlining theme of bullying throw out the film, they may have also been trying to get across the physiological affect of bullying.I think that there was also other message of taking advantage of people throw fear or just don't know any better. There are also some others theme
The genre of the film is a dark psychological thriller. The film is dark because of the theme that it covers like drug users/abuse, people being focused to have sex, bullying and suicide. It's a psychological because of events that happen throw the film you see in a different light after the films climax. The film is a thriller because of the scenes where the main character Richard played by Paddy Considine stalks drug deals throw out the film, When these scenes happen every thing is shown from the drug deals point of view so you know as much as them. You never know when one of them is going to die a couple of time in the second one leaves the group they turn up dead in the next scene.
The film is rather short as it clocks in at 1:26:28. This is rather short for normal films as the convention was for a film to be about 2 hours long give or take a couple of minutes. It was a rather small film because of Warp being a small studio at the time there was not much of a buzz about the film. This was because at the time this was their first big budget film as beforehand they had only made short films.
Style
Dead Mans Shoes was Warp's first full feature film. This is where they made there style of realism and grittiness. Their film have a very heavy focus on people in working class backgrounds and Dead Mans Shoes is no exception. The film is very gritty as all of the film has lots of dark grays and browns and this is the norm for most of Warp films.
There is a double helix style of story tell in this film, by this I mean there are two story's being told thought out
the film that are connected to one and other. This is done
by setting the bulk of the film in present day and the
second story is being told throw flash backs. Each of
the story's is focused on one of the two brother.
Content
The film start off with its opening credits, they are rolling over what looks to a family film from the 80's presumably the main protagonist's of when he was a young child with his little brother. Throw out it is alternating the two brothers walking down a country path. The film is split up in to five days, of which the main character stalks and then kills a small group of men. The film doesn't have a lot of locations, it starts off in a abandon farm then village, snooker hall and a number of houses that all looked very similar and ends out side of a church. The film starts off with the two brothers talking in there new home an abandon farm. They then walk throw the nearby village and try to find the men that took advantage of the younger brother. They find one dealing drugs in a snooker hall/pub. He then finds all the other men and terrorizes all of them in the night. Spray Painting them and scaring them when they are high on drugs. He then proceeds to kill all of them one by one until there is just on leafed and we as the viewer then finds out some new information that make me/us view the film in a new light. The film is rather gory at time like when it shows a body that has be mangled with an axe. I thought that the acting in the film was top tear, every thing that was said was performed perfectly by Paddy Considine, every thing he say is filled with emotional and you will feel like he is on the edge and is about to just kill everyone, I also got the seance that he has no regard for his own life. Toby Kebbell gives a good performance as Anthony who is the younger brother, his character has some mental problems which are never stated but from his performance it seamed very natural and not forced at all, from his jesters and to the dialect it never comes off as novice. Paddy Considine character Richard has meant to have just leafed the army and this is shown in his costume.
his army jacket and boots. One of the
props he has is a combat knife which he could have obtained when he was in the army. Inter laced throw out the film are flash backs depicting the event leading up to Anthony death. All of these seance are in black and white, I think that this has been done for two reasons one to have clear seance of when the will was in a flash back and two to give the feel that it is not the present and making it black and white gives the impression to me that it is older.
I got a lot of the meaning behind the from the opening credits. The fact that it starts off with a film that is of a family playing tells me that the bond of family will be prominent throw the film. This may give the view some type of sympathy to the character if they have a similar family bond in there life. There are a lot of establishing shot in the film of the quint village that the film is set in. I think that this is meant to connote to the reader that ever in small little villages in the countryside thing bad thing still happen. I think that this is reinforced in later scenes of the film where Anthony is with the group of drug deals and is having fun one minute and the next is being bullied or taken advantage seconds later. This is accomplished throw the editing of the film as these scenes are also flash backs they are made with a very fast pace with each shot only being there for a couple of seconds. In later scenes when people or found dead or being killed the entire color starts to fade and there are just lots of grays and browns. I think that this film has uses it preferred meaning thought out most of this feature film as there are only a couple of time in it that they ever explain anything. A very good example of this is the ending to the film where a member of the gang that bulled Anthony is talking to his wife about what they did to him when they terrorized him. He does not say all that much because most of it is just black and white flash backs with just music but throw the shot types and camera angles used I got that this man had serous regrets about what happened. They did this by putting closes up of him and his wife alternating. This was done to give you the full frontal impact of how they are felling. The man brakes down and his is truly horrified by what she is hearing. I think that this connotes to the listener and that they will be feel sad and may even cry as before we hand never really new what happened until this point. When the film is in a flash back and Anthony is being abused the levels of the act increases as the film goes on, this mirrors his brother as the whys he kills the members of the gang increases in violence as the film goes on.
The film location was most likely chosen because this was Warps first feature film and there would have been budget concerts so rather it being filmed in the heart of London where the rates for filming on location is much higher they would end up spend most of there money on that alone but filming in a little town in the country side would be a lot more ideal for what they where planning and I think it would not have been as good if it was filmed in any other type of area. I think that the costumes where very well done I got the idea that every one in the film was working class or below, as nearly all of the characters wear tracksuits. The exception to this is sonny (the antagonist of the film). Sonny wears a nice leaver jacket he would most likely have the most money out of everyone in the film as he is the leader of the drug deal so i would think that he get the biggest cut of the money. As I said be fore Richard wears a army jacket and boots. This is to always reiterate that he was once in the army. I think that it was done to give the viewer a better understanding of the character and that he is trained in the art of war and could bet them even if he is out numbered and out gunned. The filming took place over 3 weeks and Toby Kebbell was not casted until a week before filming and his entire scene where filmed in the third week. The flash backs would have been easy to set out if they had done proper pre-production, as they would have had to make story boards for the films story this is where they could play around with where the flash backs will happen. They could find the best place to put the flash back by using story boards, places where i has the biggest impacts in relevance to the rest of the film.
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