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Producers and Audiences

Producers and Audiences. 7. British film vs. American Film – Hot Fuzz. Objective. Understand and be able to explain how British films appeal to an American market through the use of the conventions of American films. Images of Britain - Gloucestershire. Traditional cottages. Picturesque.

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Producers and Audiences

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  1. Producers and Audiences 7. British film vs. American Film – Hot Fuzz

  2. Objective • Understand and be able to explain how British films appeal to an American market through the use of the conventions of American films

  3. Images of Britain - Gloucestershire Traditional cottages Picturesque Idyllic Swans and geese just out of shot...

  4. Images of Britain - London Overcast slightly Familiar Traditional tourist attraction – Houses of Parliament and Big Ben London double-decker bus Taxi cab

  5. What Edgar Wright did • Edgar Wright fused traditional English settings and stereotypes – the village, the pub, the country folk – with something much more ‘familiar’ to an American audience... • Action-thriller films...

  6. Films like...Point Break The scene where Danny can’t shoot his dad is a direct copy of (or homage to) a similar scene in Point Break where Bigelow (played by Keanu Reeves) cannot shoot Bodhi (played by Patrick Swayze) and instead empties his pistol into the air.

  7. Films like... Bad Boys II (you ain’t seen Bad Boys II?)

  8. Was this successful? • Budget £8 million • Box-office $80,573,774 (£57,552,696) • You decide... • After this, Edgar Wright went on to make Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

  9. Scott Pilgrim didn’t do so well though... Budget $60 million; box-office $47 million

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