Media Homework!

Media Homework –

The action movie I am going to pick to analyse is “Rush Hour”. The reason I am choosing to pick this movie is because I think it is very popular and I know the movie well enough to analyse it.

I think that this movie in-particular is packed with action throughout the movie. The story line in the movie is really understandable so this makes it easier for young kids to understand what is going on throughout the movie. Each “Rush Hour” movie normally lasts about the same length which is an average of 1 and a half hours, and I think this is positive because a movie that lasts to long will bore the audience watching the movie unless it is really gripping and engaging throughout the whole movie.

In the movies “Rush Hour” its genre is action. The reason it is action is because there is a lot of action happening throughout the movie such as; shooting, fighting, stabbing, fires, bombings and kidnapping. I think this has all the features any audience could wish for in an “action” movie. However, as well as action this movie also consists of comedy throughout the movie. I think this makes the movie even more exciting because these days teenagers are becoming more interested in “comedy” rather then any other film genres. So having to genres in one movie just makes the film very gripping and engaging.

Tzvetan Todorov someone who was very famous in the media industry created his own “beginning, middle and ending” and called them “Equilibrium, Disequilibrium and New Equilibrium”. Some stories can start of with the ending then go back to the beginning and finish in the middle, whilst others may just start from the beginning, go to the middle and finish at the end. I think that in ”Rush Hour” It starts with the Equilibrium, then goes on to the Disequilibrium and finishes with the New Equilibrium. In my opinion I would prefer a movie that starts from the beginning goes on to the middle and finishes at the end because it makes more sense to me as an audience watching the movie. Also in my opinion I think that it makes more sense and flows much better throughout the movie.

In this movie, another thing that I spotted that happened quite often is there were a lot of “Enigma Codes”. And Enigma Code is like a “cliff-hanger” and that is when your watching something exciting is something really is exciting is about to kick of and then the programme finishes or the movie pauses that scene then goes on to the next scene. This will make the audience want to carry on watching until they find out what’s going to happen. “Action Codes” is another thing that occurs often In this movie. An Action Code is events in the story that we know to be important in developing the narrative. And in this happens in this movie because when they pull out a knife or a bomb, we know straight away that something exciting is about to kick of and this makes us want to carry on watching until the end of the movie.