Wednesday, 29 September 2010


Narrative Expectations:
We see the main character flying on a parachute jumping into a car and flying out of a explosion!
It's a spoof start as the main character is Tom Cruise when it should be Mike Myers and the other characters are star studded when they shouldn't be!
It then cuts into the studio where we see the real Austin Powers suggesting that what we saw was a joke.
It then turns into a silly dance on the set.
The lead dancer is Mike Myers so we can suggest he is the main character.

Shot Types:
The first shot type is a rolling birds eye view of Tom Cruise POV from the sky on the parachute. This shows us this movie will have some action.
Then pans around the car which has no driver, with a number plate of 'SHAGUAR' suggesting to us this movie may be silly and a comedy.

Character Types:
The dance during the scene leads us to believe that Mike Myers will be the lead character as he's in the lead dancer.
However the start has us in shock as we see some A-List actors and a top director, we then realise it's a spoof and it cuts into the real thing where Mike Myers then takes the lead with the most speech and camera time.

Narrative Expectations:
We see the main character lying hurt on the floor with blood on her face looking like she has been in a brutal fight.
'Bill' wipes the blood off her face. We assume his name is Bill as it says it on the napkin he wipes her with.
From this we can understand that this may be a movie about revenge as the title suggests which is 'Kill Bill Vol 1'
We don't see Bill, from this I can interpret that Bill is mysterious and we may not see much of his face during the movie.

Shot Types:
There is only one shot type and that is a close up of The Bride lying on the floor with blood on her face.

Character Types:
We are made to believe that Bill is the 'bad guy' from the movie as the title is called 'Kill Bill Vol 1' and he's also the one to shoot The Bride.
We can also infer that The Bride wants revenge on Bill for shooting her.
Also we can understand that the movie will be very violent and graphic as the first scene involves a gun shot being fired and blood!