The Hurt Locker- Suicide Bomber Clip Notes

The Hurt Locker- Suicide Bomber clip notes

Q1. Explain two ways the characters and/ or events fit the action adventure genre. 

·         Definitely represents what military men have to deal with in tense situations.

·         Stereotypically show each military man with no emotion or hard to deal with.

·         Suicide bombers and military people certainly fit in the action adventure genre to show the violence and tension that is similar to an action adventure film.

·         Sergeant James is typically shown as a tough, majestic American protagonist stereotypically showing Americans are tough and hard to deal with.

Q2. Explain how each of the following is used to create effects:

·         soundtrack

·         editing

·         Mise en scene

·         camerawork

Use examples from the extract. [30 marks]

Soundtrack - There is no soundtrack because it is to represent the tension and cowardice between each different character for example Sergeant James (Jeremy Renner) is put into a difficult situation of trying to remove a bomb on an innocent civilian and with no soundtrack in the background it shows the fear of Sergeant James trying to save the suicide bomber in a certain time.

Editing: The editing is fast paced when Jeremy Renner’s character is trying to take the bomb off the innocent civilian. It is also fast paced when the military men are trying to decide how to get the bomb off as the camera quickly goes back to the innocent civilian then back to the military. It is slow paced when the bomb explodes creating and exaggerated situation, differently showing what will probably happen in real life.

Mise en Scene – The mise en scene shows the places of what typically be shown in an action adventure film. There is a use of denigrated places and it is very midpoint lighting used to represent the situation happing in broad daylight which definitely stereotypically represents the violence happening in the Middle East countries in today society and situations like this is happening in broad daylight.

Camerawork –

Ø  Over the shoulder shot representing the conversations between the two characters.

Ø  Panning

Ø  Two shot

Ø  Long distance shot showing the suicide bomber

Q3. Discuss the ways in which people are represented in the extract.

Refer to stereotypes in your answer.

Use examples from the extract. [20 marks]

Jeremy Renner’s character (Sergeant James) is stereotypically shown as a tough, majestic protagonist who represents very well what a Sergeant would be like in the military and what happens in difficult situations. It also stereotypes that this scene is more of an American’s point of view of being in the Middle East. There are no other different accents (apart from the Middle East accent) but the majority of them were American characters.