Run lola run’ task c (2)
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This document analyzes the characters of Papa and Mama in the film "Run Lola Run" through their props, costumes, dialogue, camera angles, compositions, and camera movements. [Papa is portrayed as weak and lacking power through his interaction with a gun, while his suit suggests a professional job. His defensive dialogue hints at things to hide. Mama is seen as lazy and selfish through her nightgown, phone use, and focus on her own needs in her dialogue.] Both parents are presented as poor parental figures through visual and textual analysis.
Run lola run’ task c (2)
- 1. ‘Run Lola Run’ Task C: Character
- 2. Characters to Analyse. Papa Mama
- 3. Papa
- 4. Props
- 5. • The only prop the Father character interacts with is a gun that is pointed at him by Lola. This is a binary opposition to the stereotype of a female and male character, as the female character is in the position of power and the male character is the one under duress (the Todorov narrative theory suggests that male characters stereotypically have the power). This makes the father character appear weak and not exactly powerful. It also makes him appear like he has no power or control over his daughter making him look like a bad father.
- 6. Costume
- 7. • His costume is a suit and tie. This makes his character appear more managerial, professional and all these things suggests that he has a job (which as the dialogue shows, he works in the bank). It also makes him seem like a strong character, and the fact he has a Managerial job fits into the same theory of men having the decent jobs, compared to Lola who doesn’t appear to have a job.
- 8. Dialogue • Most of his lines make him appear to be extremely defensive. “Lola, why didn’t you knock?” suggests that his character has things to hide from his daughter which makes him appear to be a shady and mysterious character. • He also answers “Yes” to the question “Do you want to have a baby with me?”. This suggests he is quite a dishonourable, lying character because he is having an affair on Lola’s mum (even though it hasn’t been explicitly stated their still together, it’s just an assumption) and this makes him seem like a bad parental figure to Lola because Lola sees him as an authority figure and because he is being a dishonest, lying cheater, it will have negative implications on her.
- 9. Camera Angle
- 10. • Most of the shot types this character is in are close ups or medium shots. This makes him look like quite an important character because it is focusing on his reactions and closing in on them. It also allows him to take up most of the screen which helps to make him look like an important character. • The camera is not looking up at him or down on him but straight at him, which makes him seem like an ordinary character but with extra status due to the shot types.
- 11. Composition • Most of the shots he is in have a shallow depth of field. This makes his character status seem even more high because it makes the background out of focus. This means that Papa will be the only thing in focus in a shot, and this means the audience will be drawn into him making him seem very important because it’s where all the attention of the audience will be.
- 12. Camera Movement • He isn’t really in any panoramic shots or tilting shots, but this doesn’t really represent or connote anything about the character.
- 13. Mama
- 14. Props
- 15. • In all of her scenes she is holding a phone and talking into it. This suggests that she is a very out going and sociable person because she is talking to someone on the phone which is something friends commonly do. It could also suggest that she doesn’t really care about Lola or her welfare as she is too busy talking on the phone to take an interest in Lola and her well being, she just sits there, on her phone, talking instead of worrying about Lola who was running out of the house, but she was too busy on her phone to notice. The use of the phone suggests she is a bad mother.
- 16. Costume
- 17. • Her costume is a nightie or dressing gown. This suggests that she is quite a lazy character, because it’s nearly mid-day (as the clock in a previous scene showed) as she hasn’t bothered to get dressed properly, she’s in her sleep clothes and because she hasn’t bothered to get dressed it makes her look quite lazy. This links in with the connotations from the phone, with her being more worried about herself and her phone than helping Lola which is not only selfish but lazy as well.
- 18. Dialogue • Her first line in the film, “Lola, are you going shopping, I need shampoo”, makes her look quite selfish, because her daughter has just ran outside quickly and all she can think about is her needs and what she wants, which again helps her look like a bad mother. • Her next line, particularly the phrase “Sagittarius is your ascendant” makes her appear like she believes in the spiritual and supernatural levels and maybe believes in horoscopes as Sagittarius is a star sign. • “Yeah, but you’re married too” suggests that she is trying to counsel and help a married couple which suggests her profession is a therapist.
- 19. Camera Angle • The camera angle is high angle, looking down on her which makes her look like an unimportant character because it gives the audience the sense of power and not the character. This is strongly conveyed by the fact she gets less than five minutes screen time in the film. The angle is also a close-up-medium- shot which does make her look important but the movement contradicts this.
- 20. Composition • It is a deep depth of field, and this means that the entire image is in focus, this makes her look like an unimportant character because everything is in focus and this means attention is everywhere and not just on the character. There is nothing in the composition that makes her stand out so this makes her seem even less important of a character.
- 21. Camera Movement • The camera rotates and pans around her, not showing any of her reactions of facial expressions clearly again helping to show her character status is quite low because nothing is clearly shown about her.