Everything, Everywhere, All at Once March 11, 2022: Trailer
Genre: Science fiction and absurdist fiction
The narratives similarities is the best convention to determine its genre as its trailers shows some of the distinctive themes of science fiction and absurdist fiction. The subject matter of the Multiverses is a science fiction staple and the hints that one of the themes will be about the purpose of life, lets the audience determine the genre .While other conventions could be used the themes of the movie are so unique to their genre that its fastest and most recognizable way.
Genre subversion: The film uses contextual subversion, with social influences of the cultural burn out that audiences have for multiverse movies that have superheroes in it. The characters are normal everyday people which bring a new twist for audiences.
Genre hybridity: The film uses its hybridization to create an individual product. Everything, Everywhere all at once is a unique movie because of its combination of different aspects of genres which are done very well in a way that makes the film a new fresh of air.
Phantom of the Paradise, November 1, 1974: Trailer
Genre: Musical comedy
The best convention to determine the genre is narrative similarities through the style of the movie. This movie uses songs for story telling and jokes which is the biggest difference of a musical compare to other movies. Humor is really focused on as its also how it tells parts of the story.
Genre subversion: The budgetary constraint of this movie made the creators have to think outside of the box when it came to making this movie .As its an indie film, its budget was pretty low compare to others and it had to stand out in other ways like subverting the fact that musical would have to be serious or comedies not having heart.
Genre Subversion: The used of hybridity between genres allows the film to use tonal shifts. A comedy needs to have a lot of jokes that are fast paced and funny but it doesn't allow for a break time to deal with emotions. The fact that its a musical can make it that the audience can breath and take in the emotional moment through the music without feeling like it doesn't belong or break the pace.
Electric Dreams July 20, 1984:Trailer
Genre: science fiction romance
To determine the genre the best convention to use for this movie is narrative similarities through narrative themes. The themes are very easy to figure out in this as it the trailers show the theme of man vs machine something that is very science fiction and then two character falling love which is what the genre of romance is on. As the themes are so easy to decipher, looking at the film through narratives similarities is the simpler way.
Genre subversion: The film subvert its genre social influences of cultural effects of its time. The sudden of popularity of computers in the 80s most likely influenced the movie. To think of an interesting way computers could be used and how far technology could go.
Genre Hybridity: The film piggybanked off of science fiction technology. The 80s brought a big bloom of computer users and technologies. Science fiction became very popular at the time because of these technological advances. The film used that in its advantage by adding the technology to a romantic plot which is different compare to traditional romance or science fiction films.
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