Film: M

Time: 00:49:57-00:54:50

Scene: Shop window

Micro Elements: Cinematography, Mise-en-scene

Macro Elements: Representations and Ideologies

Context: Social, Political, Historical Contexts

Starts with a detective getting ready to leave their office mumbling to themselves about how they’ve finally located their suspect. Once they’ve left the office they see their suspect and initiate a slow, maze-like chase around a rural area. Eventually, they end up outside a small coffee shop and the suspect stops and leads the detective inside, knowing they’ve been caught. They sit down and order, the detective attempting to gain some answers but the suspect stays silent. Eventually the detective starts choking on his words. It ends with the suspect taking a sip of their drink and leaving the scene.

Locations:

Coffee shop, town/estate, small office

• What if sand was no more
• What if people couldn’t see each other [they can still hear each other etc just cant see their physical bodies]
• What if a deaf person was unknowingly being surrounded by chaos whilst going throughout their day

A script includes the actors dialogue and gives them directions on what they need to do in each scene and what will be happening on screen whilst a screenplay gives instructions on what will be happening during the whole filming process, including details in the story and plot that may not be relevant until later on.

Screenplay: A film script that includes the actions of the actors and describes what will be happening in the scene, including what props will need to be on screen and other actions that may happen off screen/behind the scenes.

Q: How have representations of LBGTQ characters on screen changed over time in coming of age films, shown with Call me by your Name [dir. Guadagnino, 2018], Rebel Without a Cause [dir. Ray,1955]

The film ‘Call me by your name’ directed by Luca Guadagnino along with the film ‘Rebel without a cause’ directed by Nicholas Ray are both known to be American coming of age films with references to the LGBTQ+ community. I’ve chosen these films as they’re both from different times in history where laws and societal ideals were significantly different, Call me by your name being filmed in 2018 where Queer people are more accepted and less demonized than in 1955, when Rebel without a cause was filmed. Guadagnino’s film is set in 1980’s Italy and follows a boy, Elio, and how he slowly falls in love with his father’s assistant Oliver throughout the summer and how he comes to terms with his sexuality despite how they’re relationship is unlikely to last. Ray’s film, however, follows a boy named Jim, a new kid in town who tries to avoid trouble to no avail after being challenged to a drag race by the local tough, Buzz, leading Jim to befriend Judy and the questionable Plato, two other troubled teens, which causes things to escalate, eventually leading to Plato’s death.

Hypothesis: How have representations of LBGTQ characters on screen changed over time in coming of age films? 

Films: Call me by your Name [Guadagnino, 2018],

Rebel Without a Cause [Ray, 1955]

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