City of God Analysis
* Cidade De Deus, more commonly known as the City of God, was directed by Fernando Meirelles. This is a Brazilian film that represents and portrays the violence and horrors of living within the Brazilian Slums, known as favelas.
* With over 500 slums, the favelas existed within the regions of Rio de Janeiro, containing more than a third of the city’s population. The word favela refers to a community of people who neither own nor have formal permission to occupy land. Rio De Janerio’s favelas were constructed in a period of rapid industrialization, and these favelas were entirely created to keep the poor isolated from the city’s center where the more upper class people were based. * Based in Rio De Janerio, this film is casted is Portuguese, which shows a different culture to the ones we are familiar with. * The extract I will be analysing in this film is the unfortunate disaster of Knockout Ned, which is approximately 1 hour and 22 minutes into the film.
* City of God’s genre initially is crime, however it is fused together with the gangster, and incorporates some features of action and the thriller genre, as well as bringing a documentary feel with a narrator talking throughout the film. Subtitles are also in the film giving narrative details to audiences. * Mark Caro, from the Chicago Tribune states: “A visual and aural feast that combines elements of classic gangster melodramas, crime epics such as "The Godfather" and playful non-linear narratives such as "Amores Perros," City of God explores a deadly culture while feeling more alive than anything that's hit the big screen in years.” * The generic expectations for this film, with the genre being a mixture of gangster, crime, action and thriller, audiences would except to see numerous guns and criminals within City of God, as well as fast cuts between action and chase scenes. Some of the conventions within the gangster genre include the hero disliking his current status in life
* With over 500 slums, the favelas existed within the regions of Rio de Janeiro, containing more than a third of the city’s population. The word favela refers to a community of people who neither own nor have formal permission to occupy land. Rio De Janerio’s favelas were constructed in a period of rapid industrialization, and these favelas were entirely created to keep the poor isolated from the city’s center where the more upper class people were based. * Based in Rio De Janerio, this film is casted is Portuguese, which shows a different culture to the ones we are familiar with. * The extract I will be analysing in this film is the unfortunate disaster of Knockout Ned, which is approximately 1 hour and 22 minutes into the film.
* City of God’s genre initially is crime, however it is fused together with the gangster, and incorporates some features of action and the thriller genre, as well as bringing a documentary feel with a narrator talking throughout the film. Subtitles are also in the film giving narrative details to audiences. * Mark Caro, from the Chicago Tribune states: “A visual and aural feast that combines elements of classic gangster melodramas, crime epics such as "The Godfather" and playful non-linear narratives such as "Amores Perros," City of God explores a deadly culture while feeling more alive than anything that's hit the big screen in years.” * The generic expectations for this film, with the genre being a mixture of gangster, crime, action and thriller, audiences would except to see numerous guns and criminals within City of God, as well as fast cuts between action and chase scenes. Some of the conventions within the gangster genre include the hero disliking his current status in life