Thursday 7 April 2011

British Film Awards Nominations

Kings speech:

story and plot is entirely British based, relates to real event about a King of England (King George VI)
Actors are mainly English, with the 'star' actor being Colin Firth, who is English.
Director is Tom Hooper, who is English.
Style of the film is very dialogue based – associated with the English, also what critics like.
Genre of film is a drama – once agin British critics enjoy this genre of film
received funding from a British based company – UK film council


127 hours:

story and plot don't really relate to British subject matter
cast are not British
Director is well known and very talented – Danny Boyle
style and genre of film doesn't relate too well to Britishness
however major achievement for film in how it managed to keep audience interested for long time when nothing was really happening.
Received some funding from Film4 – British based
critics mainly focused on exploits of director – who is English – very good reviews


another year:

whole of the cast is English
director is English – Mike Leigh
Mike was given highly rated reviews
received funding from the UK film council
the genre of the film is comedy drama – typical british genre

four lions:

plot relates to England – set in England with issues about terrorism
Cast is nearly all English
Director is English – Chris Morris
Production companies are mainly English
genre is a black comedy – not associated with typical English films  

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