TASK 12: HISTORICAL TEXT

For my historical text i decided to relate my text to the movie called the "god father" 1987;because i found out that there are many similarities in way that it is a gangster movie and it also includes drugs and crimes;etc...
it is a good text to refer to when writing my study because it is also named the number one gangster movie ever made.
The similarities between the two texts is that they both use the issues of crimes and drugs and they both have the same type of of genre which is the gangster genre; and also both of them use black actors and gangsters.
the differences is that this movie is based on a life of soldier who just came back from the second world war but needed money so he started getting involved into gangster groups and also started getting into drugs etc...
the texts show something in common is that both characters are in need of money so they both start getting involved into gangsters and crimes;in order to get money;and also the similarity is that both main characters seem to follow their family which were already involved into drugs and crimes etc...
for example Michael in God Father after coming back from the war finds that all his family is involved in the mafia, and 50Cent mother is involved in drugs and crimes and that she was being killed by a gangster.
The difference that these two movies is trying to show is that they are showing that the society has changed over the years; when this movie was filmed in 1987; there wasn't that much gangsters and crimes compared to our days now; but also on the other side we can see the progress at that time when 50cent was in his early years started to get involved in crimes and that was the period when God Father was shot and this shows that was the period that this gangster genre started to become really popular even if it was such as in the movie Shaft; but during that period of the 80s it was the period that the gangster genre became popular and the society started to face those problems such as drugs and crimes; which is also shown by mentioning being the n1 gangster movie and that is the reason that it became successful because it was the start of the gangster and crime period; and that what the movie 50cent shows when he was in his teenage years.
but it wasn't that popular and surprising when it was out in 2005; because there were already movies such as God father which really developed the genre and gave us a view of what was going to happen in the society during the 90 and 00 which started happening in 50cents movie and in the society.
THE GOD FATHER TRAILER

TASK 11:

Laura Mulvey is a succesful producer and director and producer, and has written and edited many books about the feminist theory adn how are females represented in movies.
she wrote many important books and essays and one of her important essayes is called 'visual pleasure and narative cinema', in this essay she used ideas of psychoanalytics Freud, where she reinterpreted his idea of Scopophilia, which is the pleasure of watching what shouldn't be watched.
Mulvey describes the women as a male gaze and that she is always represented as a gaze in movies,in order to attract males and that males are patriachal and rule the female.
she also uses the theory of Freud which is the 'anal stage' 'the oral stage' which are the two main concepts of the child development.
Then the Scopophilia concept which refers to the mature adult's desire to see things which we are forbidden to see and we're not supposed to be seeing.
The theory of the Male gaze which is the other concept that Mulvey exapnded on, that women are represented as 'objects' in films and they are always ruled by males and she also descibed the women 'to-be-looked-at-ness', that she should be looked at.In hollywood movies, the audience identfies with the male protagonuist in viewing the female.
the audience sees the female actress as a gaze or look. where laura mulvey described it as the voyeuristic where the women are there to be admired and not as a sex object, the Fetish where she is looked in a very sexual way.
How can it be related to my study?
it can be somehow related to my study, eventhough it is not the main the theory, because in the movie we see many scenes which represent the female as a sex object, as 50 Cent's mother where we see many males attracted to her, and the other scene when 50Cent is attracted by the female, his wife where again which might indicate that she is represented as a male gaze and also she is shown as supportive and a house-wife where she is caring for her husband and her child.
in this movie 50cent's wife can be seen from a voyeuristic point of view because she is not really represented as a sex object, however she is looking beautifull and not a sex obejct,but in the movie there are some sexual scenes where she can be seen as a fetish object.
50 Cent's mother is represented as a male gaze where she attracts males,and she is also represented as a 'femme fatale', and also there is a use of the 'Saddism' because she is being punished and being killed because she used to be involved in drugs etc...

Response to Interim Report:

My grade for media was D, i should have done better but i think my blog work and my research for my independent study is at a good level but still need to do more independently and not to rely on the tasks done in class, but i need to improve my writing skills mainly for module6, because i always got the same grade and always get the same feedback and i always try to improve and follow those feedback,but i think i have improved a bit as in my last mock i got better grade and hope to try more harder to improve my writing skills, and i think that is the main reason which is putting my grade down, and i will do my best to improve over the course of next term, which will also help me with my module1 retake.
My targets:
improve my writing skills with doing more practice.
do more research and start planning on how to write my study.