The Crazies film analysis

The Crazies film analysis Does The Crazies follow classic Hollywood narrative? Classic Hollywood Narrative states that the film should conventionally start with the equilibrium. However, in the crazies, the film starts in the beginning of a disruption where a flashback to the equilibrium is followed. It is also conventional for a horror film to not end with a reinstatement of the equilibrium and we can see this from David and Judy being watched by military satellites. We see the couple walking to another town and from this we get a warning message on the screen saying ‘Initiate containment protocol’ which shows that what happened in ogden marsh will happen again in ceda falls, which is the town that david and judy were heading to. How many of Propps character types can be identified in the film? The hero of the film is David. We can tell this as he gets the most screen time throughout the whole of the film and he is one of the last people alive. The false hero of the film is the military. This is because they appeared to be helping the people of the town however the exterminated them in fear that they would spread the virus. The helper was russel and judy as the both assisted david during their escape. The villain could be the government as they are the ones that created the virus or it also could be the crazies as they were the ones who caused the quarantine in the first place. The final character was the princess who was judy as she was davids reward at the end. Binary Oppositions include: Hero-Villian Known-Unknown Power-Powerless Health-Sick Innocence-Corruption Identify the three durations and give an estimate of the time each duration covers. The plot time of the film is four days. We are able to know this from when David said that he was still healthy after 3 days when they spike the federal officer’s car. From then we see them walk to the truck stop at night and from there we see them in what seems to be the morning after that. The film lasts for 92 minutes, which obviously means that the screen time is 92 minutes. The whole story of the film cannot be predicted close as we do not know from when the government started creating the virus as it could have been years or months before. Give two examples of events that cause later events in the film but which occur when the film ‘starts’ One example of this is the plane crash. The film tells us that the plane crashed about a week from when the film starts from a farmer. The plane crashed which caused the water to become contaminated. If the water had not become contaminated, then the town wouldn’t have had to go into quarantine and everything would have been the same. Another example of an event is Judy’s pregnancy. This is because had she not been pregnant then she wouldn’t have had a fever and been taken away as she was assumed to be sick. If she hadn’t been taken away the David and Judy would have go on the bus with everyone else who wasn’t sick and they would have been killed by the military. List two events from the film that happen in a different time and space to the one we are shown. One event is Judy’s blood test as we didn’t see her get strapped to the bed. The other event that I can think of is when Russell is taken away. From this we are able to follow Russell’s story through what is said later in the film. From when Russell is taken away we then know that he is put into the fenced off areas where the people who are considered ill are kept. From Judy’s perspective we that this fence is broken w=from where we know that Russell escaped. From here we then know that he tried to drive to Ceda Falls but his car got spiked and rolled so he ends up going back to the police station where he met up with David again.