Research Four

Here is another clip we found while researching, it is out of the movie 'The Crying Game'. It is a scene in which the PIRA have captured a british soldier. It takes place at 0:06:00 in this video. They are explaining to him his fate if the british army do not release a senior IRA member from questioning. This makes him a hostage, in which, he knows it is more than likely he will be killed. This clip in particular give us a great insight into how the IRA would have addressed themselves around outsiders, which was important to keep in mind when writing the script for our project. It gave us an idea how paramilitaries would have spoke and the threats they would have used to 'enemies' in their possession.

The target audience for this film would be late teens to early fifties as it this group of people who would have most interest in a storyline of this nature. Another reason this would have been the target audience is because the majority of people involved in The Troubles would have been of this age, therefore they would have found it especially intriguing. The audience expectation of this movie is that they would learn about the brutality of paramilitaries in Northern Ireland. It would also highlight to them the deep hatred that they had for each other, but mainly the IRA's hatred for the british soldiers and the 'take no prisoners' policy they obeyed by.

Music is only used at two parts of the film. Once at the start when the camera is focused on a theme park. Happy cheerful music is played here as the camera slowly makes its way across the water and closer to the theme park. The song playing is 'when a man loves a woman' which is very relevant as it blends in to the start of the movie which shows one of the main characters hand in hand with a woman who he clearly is creating a deep affection for. Music is then used once more later on in the movie, as another of the main characters is tied up on a bed while a woman holds a gun to him. The music here is obviously very different and is a lot more tense. It alerts the viewer than the man is in a dangerous situation, which could potentially lead to his death.

Mise En Scene is very effective in the scene I have mentioned as the costumes are very different to what many people would have imagined the IRA to have. None of them are wearing balaclavas, masks, or camouflage gear, instead they are all dressed in normal clothes. This very much humanises them, and reminds the viewer that the people who carried out these horrific acts, were just normal everyday people. The soldier which they capture is also dressed in normal clothes, which has the same effect in that it reminds the viewer behind the uniforms the soldiers are just normal human beings like everyone else. The props and set are very realistic which helped in capturing the viewer and making the scene seem as authentic as possible. They are in a dark barn in the middle of nowhere, which is very likely to be similar to the type of place that hundreds of captured British soldiers were murdered.

The type of company I would imagine would make this film is a large multinational company, and the reason for this is that it would have cost quite a lot to make and also had a number of big actors, including Forest Whitaker.