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Textual Analysis Film: City of God 

Director(s) Meirelles & Lund 

Sequence Running Time: 1:47:06 – 1:52:06 

Wordcount: 580

This essay analyses a sequence from the 2002 coming of age film ‘City of God’ (Meirelles & Lund). City Of God is a Brazilian Drama/Crime film mainly set in the seventies but introduces rudimentary characters such as Rocket, Shaggy and Lil Dice (Lil ‘Ze) in the beginning of the film, which is set in the sixties, during these decades the City of God which is west of Rio De Janeiro was teeming with ‘hoodlums’ and gangsters. I chose to analyse a sequence nearing the end of the film 1:47:06 – 1:52:06 which is titled ‘the beginning of the end’ this is because the gang rivalry is about to hit a climax, after Lil ’Ze gave the runts guns Knockout Neds gang ambushed Lil ’Ze’s which resulted in Ze getting caught. This section of the film can be seen to reflect the social and economic contexts of Brazil at the time, this essay explores how these contexts were depicted within the film by analysing the cinematography, editing and narrative techniques which were used.

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Meirelles and Lund worked with cinematographer Cesar Charlone to capture the social and economic state of the City of God. The films use of high and low angles are seen to emphasise power, at the beginning of the sequence the viewer can see the runts making their way up the stairs(figure 1) to meet Lil ‘Ze, Charlone then decides to use an eye level shot and pan(figure 3) once they have made it up the stairs, during the conversation with Lil ‘Ze a low angle shot is maintained(figure 2) when Lil ‘Ze is the subject of the shot. Charlone did this to convey to the viewer that the runts are using Lil ‘Ze to move to power, as before Lil ‘Ze gave them the guns Charlone used a high angle shot to depict the runts but after the exchange he decided to move to an eye level shot this is because the runts are moving to power, at this point in the sequence the runts still respect Lil ‘Ze which is the reason why he is depicted with a low angle shot in this part of the sequence, not only does he have the power over them but he also has the respect. The City of God is a prime example of Brazil’s governmental neglect, there were many places in Rio De Janeiro which had been neglected these were called favelas. An Increase of Favelas was seen after the proclamation of the republic, where Brazil went from an Empire to a Republic. In these favelas power became especially important socially as rules and laws weren’t applicable since favelas suffered neglect from the government many public services weren’t available. Lil ‘Ze and Knockout Ned had all the power in the City of God at the time, it becomes understandable that the runts also strive for this same power and respect. There comes this sense of dramatic Irony from this part of the sequence as the viewers can clearly assume that the runts should not be trusted, and the viewers assumptions become correct later in the film where they kill Lil ‘Ze with the same guns he gave them, essentially killing himself. The viewer can then take away that the rivalry and social tension which overrun the streets became too much for Lil ‘Ze to maintain clarity which resulted in his downfall. 

Source Number	Author/Director	Title	Date Published/Publisher	Date Last Accessed if website	URl If Website
1	Meirelles & Lund	City Of God	August 30th 2002 (Brazil)
2	Monaco	How To Read A Film	1977 or 1981
3	Vidigal & Borges	City Of God 10 years later	October 2013
4	Eduqas/Wjec	A level Film Studies Focus Film Factsheet	WJEC	26/09/22	http://resource.download.wjec.co.uk.s3.amazonaws.com/vtc/2016-17/16-17_1-19/_eng/city-of-god.pdf
5	Caio Silveira	City Of God in Rio De Janeiro	2007	26/09/22	http://www.socioeco.org/bdf_fiche-document-1702_en.html
6	Stephanie Muir	Studying City Of God	2016, Liverpool Uni Press	26/09/22	https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv13841wr
7	Lancaster Uni	City of God Sociology paper	2004, Department Of Sociology	28/09/22	https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/resources/sociology-online-papers/papers/diken-city-of-god.pdf
8	The Guardian Alice Braga, Actor. Lamartine Ferreira, Assistant Director.	How we made City Of God	The Guardian	30/09/22	https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jun/09/how-we-made-city-of-god
9	Barthes	An introduction to analysis of structural narrative	1975	30/09/22	https://www.uv.es/fores/Barthes_Structural_Narrative.pdf
10					https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_of_the_Republic_(Brazil)#:~:text=The%20Proclamation%20of%20the%20Republic,reign%20of%20Emperor%20Pedro%20II.
11					https://library.brown.edu/create/fivecenturiesofchange/chapters/chapter-9/favelas-in-rio-de-janeiro-past-and-present/
12					https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332110878_City_of_God_Coherence_in_Non-Linear_Storytelling
13					https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/city-of-gods-an-interview-with-fernando-meirelles/
14					https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/BRA/brazil/poverty-rate
15					https://scholarworks.calstate.edu/downloads/0p096885m
16		Secrets of screenplay structure- Cowgill (1999, pg 158)
17					https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_God_(2002_film)

Film: City Of God

Scene: Chicken Chase (end)

Micro Elements: Editing + Cinematography

Macro Elements: Narrative

Context: Social, Economic

Time Stamp: 1:47:06-1:52:06

Film	Personal Rating 1-10	Memorable Scene
Children Of Men (Cuaron, 2006)	7	final scene on boat
City Of God (Meirelles & Lund, 2002)	8/10	Chicken chase
M (Lang, 1931)	6.4/10	Court Scene(End Scene)

A director is responsible for communicating their idea to the rest of the crew in order to translate their creative vision onto the screen. From Pre-production to post-production the director gives direction throughout the whole making of the film.

Favourite Director: Kubrick and Tarantino, Kubrick’s cinematography is one of the most recognisable because of how thought out most shot is and Tarantino because he includes non-linear narratives and dark humour in his works.

Notable films: The Shining(1980), A Clockwork Orange(1971), Pulp Fiction(1994), Kill Bill(2003)

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Introduction:

P1: 5 methods of montage

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P2: continuity vs. discontinuity

P3.

PEEL paragraphs

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	Blog	http://www.classicartfilms.com/strike-1925
	Website	https://nofilmschool.com/sergei-eisenstein-soviet-montage-theory
	Website	https://nofilmschool.com/4-elements-christopher-nolan-uses-nail-montage
	Book	https://monoskop.org/images/6/68/Eisenstein_Sergei_The_Film_Sense_1957.pdf
	Magazine	https://documentcloud.adobe.com/spodintegration/index.html?r=1&locale=en-us
	website	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality#:~:text=Hyperreality%20is%20the%20inability%20of,especially%20in%20technologically%20advanced%20societies.
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