For the task, we had to take a piece of moving image and remix it in a way that subverts the original intended message. I initially wasn't too sure what to look at as I struggled to find a piece of media that made me uncomfortable until I remembered all those films that, while I thought they were very good films, did leave me angry. These include 'Gone Girl', 'The Hunt' and 'Watchmen' due to their portrayal of injustice. In order to convey this, I took the audio from the trailer of 'Gone Girl' and placed it over the visuals for the trailer of 'The Hunt' and was surprised at how well they synced up. I believe this reinforces my idea that people are made in pariahs in film quite regularly and I find it worrying that this story is seen so many times because it implies that this has the potential to be a common problem.
What hit me about 'Gone Girl' and 'The Hunt' was how fickle the general public can be and how easily swayed they are by one sided debates. The protagonists of both films can't get a word in to defend themselves from their accusations and eventually the ordeals build into having their lives threatened and being rejected from society. 'Gone Girl' runs with the idea of the press having so much more power than the protagonist, Nick, that no matter what he says, they can turn his words against him and that scares me since justice is clearly not on his side. Admittedly, the film does build up an ambiguity for the first half as there is no certain answer to his ordeal until the second half however that's still no excuse to people to blindly follow ignorance and take it upon themselves to bombard a man they no nothing about with no evidence that he's the culprit. 'The Hunt', on other hand, makes the situation more terrifying by having it no localised to the press but instead having the whole town, everyone he knows turn on him just because a child lied about him. 'The Hunt' shows characters blindly follow the idea that "children can't lie and are always innocent" which proves to be the reason that the protagonist, Lucas, can't defend himself.
There are parallels between 'Gone Girl' and 'The Hunt' that were key to splicing the trailer together using the assets from their respective trailers.
Trailer for 'Gone Girl':
Trailer for 'The Hunt':
Links to my reviews of:
Gone Girl: http://opinionmoviegoer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/gone-girl-david-fincher-2014-review.html
The Hunt: http://opinionmoviegoer.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/the-hunt-thomas-vinterberg-2012-review.html
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