Genre Theory
‘genres are instances of repetition and difference’...
Discuss what this statement means in relation to the duel scene from The Magnificent 7, directed by Antoine Fuqua? Use specific evidence from the scene to support your ideas.
From this quote, Neale means that if all genres are the same then it will become boring and people will stop watching movies as they will know what is going to happen, and so if there is some repetition which shows which genre the text is, then it will still be understandable for people and they will want to go and watch it if it is a genre of their liking. Also, he means that there needs to be some difference within the text otherwise people will start to find it boring and too repetitive and so they will stop watching films of a certain genre.
In the Magnificent 7, for a movie of this genre there is still some repetition as otherwise people won't enjoy the movie at all and so will not enjoy it if there is absolutely no repetition at all. The way this movie is in some way the same, is that the setting is in a western area and you can tell this by what is around them, i.e. the desert type of land and there aren't many houses, just a few small 'ranches'. Also, the way in which the characters speak shows a western element in that. This is how most movies of this genre are created, by setting the scene similar to how it is done in other western films.
Also, there is a dual, and this is something which happens in most western movies, so this was expected and is repeated in most western texts.
On the other hand, the way in which this film has a twist and a difference is that normally you would expect the characters to all be white, male and with a north-American western accent, but in this scene there is an Asian man who is the difference as this is not expected in a movie like this, this draws the views in and they are drawn into this text immediately as they might be getting fed up of the repetition, but then this man brings a new vibe to the story and grasps the viewers' attention.
Furthermore, normally in a dual, you expect both men to raise their guns and for the first one to shoot after the trigger of the dual has started then. But in this scene the Asian orientated man decides not to use his gun, but to use his knife, which he unexpectedly pulls out of his pocket and throws it towards the other stereotypical man which you would normally find in a western movie, who challenged him to a dual.
Discuss what this statement means in relation to the duel scene from The Magnificent 7, directed by Antoine Fuqua? Use specific evidence from the scene to support your ideas.
From this quote, Neale means that if all genres are the same then it will become boring and people will stop watching movies as they will know what is going to happen, and so if there is some repetition which shows which genre the text is, then it will still be understandable for people and they will want to go and watch it if it is a genre of their liking. Also, he means that there needs to be some difference within the text otherwise people will start to find it boring and too repetitive and so they will stop watching films of a certain genre.
In the Magnificent 7, for a movie of this genre there is still some repetition as otherwise people won't enjoy the movie at all and so will not enjoy it if there is absolutely no repetition at all. The way this movie is in some way the same, is that the setting is in a western area and you can tell this by what is around them, i.e. the desert type of land and there aren't many houses, just a few small 'ranches'. Also, the way in which the characters speak shows a western element in that. This is how most movies of this genre are created, by setting the scene similar to how it is done in other western films.
Also, there is a dual, and this is something which happens in most western movies, so this was expected and is repeated in most western texts.
On the other hand, the way in which this film has a twist and a difference is that normally you would expect the characters to all be white, male and with a north-American western accent, but in this scene there is an Asian man who is the difference as this is not expected in a movie like this, this draws the views in and they are drawn into this text immediately as they might be getting fed up of the repetition, but then this man brings a new vibe to the story and grasps the viewers' attention.
Furthermore, normally in a dual, you expect both men to raise their guns and for the first one to shoot after the trigger of the dual has started then. But in this scene the Asian orientated man decides not to use his gun, but to use his knife, which he unexpectedly pulls out of his pocket and throws it towards the other stereotypical man which you would normally find in a western movie, who challenged him to a dual.
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