The text is the first scene from the movie 50Cent "Get rich Or Die Tryin" which is hollywood movie according to the institutions used such as Paramount, ISA and MTV films as it it a music company because he is a rapper and his music is promoted in the movie as it is shown on the begining of the scene, and the movie is set in Dublin and also includes british actors, it opens with the gang and 50 cent in the car where the tiltle credits are shown, and a white boy is with them the car which they have kidnapped.
The starting scenes are creating and making the audience really think waht is going to happen next, as the gang is shown in the car in the credit sequence preparing the guns which is indicating that somekind of action is going to happen, it is trying to make the audience ask questions such are they going to kill the white boy in the car as he is looking scared, everything changes then when there is a close up from the car to bank, this is now showing the audience that they are going to rob the bank.
low key lighting is used throughout the scene indiacting seriousness and scariness, and to make the audince think aswell as when it is shot at night what sort of crimes are going to happen during night, but when the bank is shown it is clearly meaning that they are going to rob the bank.
they are represented as gangsters because of the use of guns and the clothing such as hoodies and hats , and oppurtnists as they used the white boy to be able to get into the bank as his mother works there, when they got in, the mood changes suddenly and they come in with guns in their hands and shouting so that the bank employers stop and be able to give them the money, the womens screaming scared to get killed so they obeyed what they swere asked to do which was to put the money into the sack.
as they went in 50 cent was filmed from a low angle shot to make him look superior and being the boss of the gang, offensive language is being used throghout the scene to scare the people, therefore this is creating the gangster genre by the use of the offensive language nad the propps used, and we see how the gangs obey 5ocent, when he orderded that they should not shoot anyone, this is seen as a patriachal ideology of having a boss ruling the gang and oredering them what to do.
aswell as the patriachal ideology is used the capitalist ideology and economic value is used because they went in to the bank to get the money and that what is going to make them rich and that what really matters to those people as they are living in poverty and they are really in need of money and get out of poverty.
The patriachal ideology of being the boss of the gang and giving the other members orders on what to do that brings us to the Levi Strauss theory which is binary opposition because one of the gang members didnt obey what 50cent asked to do not to shoot anyone but he started shooting the people and he wanted to shoot and saying that this is his life and he didnt get anything from it and he wanted to get rich, so that can also be considered as revenge from his past and wanting to become a boss and have the money, he is opposing what 50 cent has ordered him to do and then he throws all the money to 50 cent and resigns from the group, this brings him to become the villain and 50 cent as the hero, and it is proved by the scene where someone follows 50cent during night in the car and starts shooting him, until he shot him nine times, this is then make the audience straight away thinks that that friend became his enemy and wanted to kill him and get the moeny after 50cent shouted at him of shooting the innocent people and also he wanted to become the boss, and when he is shooting 50cent he is being shot from as low angle shot, to make 50cent look at him as superior.
when the shooting is happening, there is a medium shot on 50 cent and then a side close up where there is a voice over of 50cent where he says "i knew i was about to die and i was expecting my father to rescue, i know realised that i have been looking for him all my life" , this is showing a social value where there is a lack of parents and that might be one of the issues that is causing most black males becoming gangsters, because there is no one supporting them and giving them advice.
from that scene we see the Todorovian narrative which is non linear because after being shot he goes back and starts remembering the past, and his voice over is still used whre he starts talking about his mother and how he doesnt know his father, where he was younger and describes how he lived, during that scene when he was being shot dramtic music was used to create more scariness, him being a gangster can be also related to the historical value, because his motehr used to get involved into drugs and from that shooting he goes back ans start remembering his childhood memories.
the audience that will be more likely to watch the movie is 15-19 black males and 50cent's fans, because they will be really wanting to know how he was killed and how from that quote taht he was looking for hisfather the movie starts, it is trying to create enigma to the audience and also to his fans where they also want to know how 50cent was able to get that position of being a famous rapper.
this scene is introducing the movie and showing how these gangsters are really looking for money, according to the poverty that is going on, and making them wanting money.
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