deep blue sea textual analysis

deep blue sea

Mise e scene-often in this film where they are is always near water because this is where the villain in this film calls home; many people have a phobia of just the sea itself so adding a flesh eating monster into the sea creates the worst nightmare for some people which makes this film a very scary film indeed, also we are often found in a laboratory as they are using the shark minds to find a cure for a brain crippling disease which occurs In humans but they do not realise that the alterations that they are making to the sharks is making them even more dangerous than they already were they are kept in deep sea cages but a suspect that these will not hold the shark for much longer.

Stock characters-Both of these people challenges the typical bourgeoisie, the black male challenges it because in many films it is often the white male who has all the power because of racial discrimination the black male is often shown as the much lower class even some times casted as the villain because he is an exotic person something that the people of American are unfamiliar with which could cause them to fear him, also because he is casted as intelligent where as in the news the black male is shown as only physically able to achieve highly and not with brain power The female challenges the bourgeoisie because she is a female, as she has a very powerful position because it is often the male that is given the most powerful position but in this case it is more matriarchy than patriarchy, the clothes that they are both wearing show further what kind of work they perform very smartly dressed shows there job is highly paid and when selling their products they wish to show the money they have earned to the opposition to show that they are good at what they do.

Sound-the sound in this film is both diigetic and none diegetic the digetic sound is the peoples voice telling us what they have created and what it is capable of doing this adds more fear into the film as they soon tell us that this is no normal shark and it is capable of cause much harm to the world if they got out of their pen and began breeding with other sharks.

 Editing-the editing that is used in this clip consists of jump cuts and a lot of fade ins and fade outs, the jump cuts have been used to show the emotion on the faces of  all the actors as the drama unfolds and the fear on their faces as they are confronted with the beast that they have created, the fade ins and outs are used to make it seem like they are being watched as the editing is that fast it is like something is blinking as it cuts to the next clip.

Stock setting- as we do not know specifically where they are I can only guess that they on are the coast of America somewhere as we are not often on dry none man made land, the settings as I stated early they are often found in a lab messing with shark brain cells in an attempt to save their own species it is almost like het sharks are trying to get their revenge on the humans for messing with their minds.

Theme- the theme of this film lab experiments and how they can go horribly wrong if not kept under control and it is often the case that scientist conduct experiments on animals, perhaps stating that we shouldn’t be messing with nature like this just for personal gain so the producer could be very for animal rights.

Iconography- within this film the sea is the most iconic thing in these films similar to the jaws franchise and similar to other thrillers as labs are often used to conduct sick experiments on humanity but in this case o sharks even if it is just save the world from a disease, another iconic thing in this film is the clothing as people who work in lab often wear the iconic white lab coat so people can recognise what they are straight away.

Narrative- the facility in this film is attempting to create a cure for Alzheimer’s by using brain cells from great white sharks and adding different drugs to their brain cells to see the affect and they stumbled on a specific one that began to work but as a side affect it made the sharks a lot smarter and they began to fight back and kill their masters so now the scientists have to kill what they have created before it escapes into the ocean and breeds

Camera angles- in the first scene we see the scientists looking down upon which is a high angled shot on the shark showing that they have the power in this situation because of all the hi-tech machinery they posses but as the clip goes on when see the shark towering over the human showing that without their machinery they are nothing but prey to them as these sharks are sizably larger than they are.

By Matthew Hurst