Tuesday 27 November 2012

Case Study - Essex Boys

Analysis of how Terry Windsor Develops generic conventions in the title sequence of Essex Boys

  • Released Date (UK): 2000
  • Genre: Crime, Thriller
  • Director: Terry Windsor
  • Writers: Terry Windsor & Jeff Pope
  • Plot: Essex Boys is loosely based on the true story of the Rettendon range rover murders that took place in Essex in 1995. A young taxi driver is offered a job to drive for a criminal who has just been released from jail to get revenge on the people who grassed him up. As the film progresses the audience begin to see just what the situation the young taxi driver has gotten himself into.
  • Ratings: Rotten Tomatoes gave it 17% and its users gave 26%, IMDB users gave the film a rating of 5.9 out of 10
  • Starring: Sean Bean, Charlie Creed-Miles and Alex Kingston

This was taken from IMDB and it shows the user ratings for Essex boys. As we can see the demographic that rated the film highest were 'Females Aged 18-29' with a rating of 6.9 out of 10, this could be because of the strong female character 'Lisa Locke' (played by Alex Kingston) who deceives everyone at the end and manages to come away fine. 


Essex Boys Screenshot Analysis

2 comments:

  1. A perceptive and excellent analysis reflecting confident understanding of how Winsor established the generic blueprint for his film from the title sequence to opening of the film.

    If you also cover the purpose of the voice over and connotations of lighting, locations, costume and body language. The film is about a particular sub culture of gangsters operating in Essex in the early 1990's, note that the Essex accents of the character establishes social class and region.

    another aspect of focus is the use of "engima". An unmarked white van (in Essex Boys) is anonymous and enigmatic.

    Your comments about Jason's primitive instincts and that he pays little attention to morality or boundaries is covered splendidly in your aalysis of the essex marshes being a metaphor for Jason's moral compas.

    A pleasure to read.

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  2. Correction! Ignore the "if" at the beginning ofmy 2nd paragraph in my post - a typing error. The sentence in my post should read "You also SPLENDIDLY cover the purpose of the voice over....etc. With the adjective "splendidly" indicating promising analysis.

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