A Royal Affair Case Study

Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Stars:  Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
Genre:  Drama/Romance
Production Company: Magnolia
Release Date: April 13, 2012 (Sweden)
Domestic Total Gross: $1,540,598
Worldwide total: $7,588,530
Running Time: 2 hrs. 12 min.
Production Budget: N/A

Amour Case Study

Director: Michael Haneke
Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert
Genre: Drama/Romance
Production Company: Canal+
Certificate: PG
Release Date: 20 May 2012 (Cannes)
Domestic Total Gross: $6,726,705
Worldwide total: $19,826,705
Running Time: 2hrs 5mins.
Production Budget: $8.9 million

She Wants Me Case Study

Director: Rob Margolies
Stars: Josh Gad, Kristen Ruhlin, Hilary Duff
Genre: Comedy
Production Company: Different Duck Films
Certificate: N/A
Release Date: 1st November 2012
Running Time: 85 mins.

The Woman In Black Case Study

Director: James Watkins
Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Shorey, Ciarán Hinds
Genre: Drama/Horror/Thriller
Production Company: Momentum Pictures
Certificate:12
Marketing: Daniel Radcliffe is a well known actor, based on book/play and is a remake of the 1989 version
Release Date: 3rd February 2012
Domestic Total Gross: $54,333,290
Worldwide total: $127,730,736
Running Time: 1hr 35min.
Production Budget: N/A

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Case Study

Director: Peter Jackson

Stars: Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen and Richard Armitage

Genre: Adventure/Fantasy

Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures

Certificate: PG

Marketing: Released in 68 countries, based on a children's book, prequel to LOTR films, Peter Jackson is well known director, Actors such as Martin Freeman and Ian McKellen are well known actor especially for their characters Bilbo and Gandalf.

Release Date: 13th December 2012

Domestic Total Gross: $303,001,229

Worldwide total: $1,017,001,229

Running Time: 169 minutes

Production Budget: N/A

Bonnie and Clyde Case Study

Stars: Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway

Director: Arthur Penn

Genre: Drama/Romance/Crime

Production Company: Warner Bros.

Release Date:13th August 1967

Running Time:111mins

Production Budget:$2.5million

A somewhat romanticized account of the career of the notoriously violent bank robbing couple and their gang.

Wild At Heart Case Study

Stars: Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern

Director: David Lynch

Genre: Crime/Romance

Production Company: The Samuel Goldwyn Company

Certificate:18

Release Date: 17 August 1990

Running Time: 124mins

Production Budget:$10million

Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

True Romance Case Study

Stars: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette and Dennis Hopper

Director: Tony Scott

Genre: Thriller/Crime/Romance

Production Company: Warner Bros.

Certificate:18

Release Date:10th September 1993

Running Time: 118mins

Production Budget:$13million 

Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

The Italian Job (1969) Case Study

Stars: Michael Caine, Benny Hill, Noel Coward

Director:Peter Collinson

Genre: Action/Crime/Comedy

Production Company: Paramount Pictures

Certificate:PG

Release Date:2nd June 1969
Running Time:95mins

Comic caper movie about a plan to steal a gold shipment from the streets of Turin by creating a traffic jam.

Harry Brown Case Study

Stars: Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, David Bradley, Ben Drew

Director:Daniel Barber

Genre: Action/Crime/Drama

Production Company: Lionsgate

Certificate:18

Release Date:11th November 2009

Running Time:103mins

Production Budget:$7.3 million

An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice .

Badlands Case Study

Stars: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek and Warren Oates

Director: Terrance Malick

Genre: Lovers on the Lam/Drama

Production Company: Warner Bros.

Certificate:18

Release Date:October 15, 1973

Running Time:94mins

Production Budget:$500,000 (estimated)

Based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1958, in which a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-five-year-old boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.

Natural Born Killers Case Study

Stars: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr. and Tom Sizemore

Director: Oliver Stone

Genre: Lovers on the Lam/Thriller/Romance

Production Company: Warner Bros.

Certificate: 18

Release Date:August 26,1994 

Domestic Total Gross: $50,282,766

Running Time: 3hrs 2mins

Production Budget: $34 million

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

 

Lost In Translation Case Study - US Independent Film

Director: Sofia Coppola
Stars:  Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson

Genre: Drama
Production Company: Focus Features

Certificate: 15

Marketing: Having 2 well known stars in the film. Released in both the UK and Japan (set in Tokyo). Won 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Bill Murray, and Best Director for Sofia Coppola; Coppola won for Best Original Screenplay. Scarlett Johansson won a BAFTA award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. As well as posters etc.

Release Date: October 3, 2003

Domestic Total Gross: $44,585,453

Worldwide Total: $119,723,856

Running Time: 102 minutes

Production Budget: $4 million

Trailer Analysis 

The trailer starts with the production company logo-Focus Features. There is a non-diegetic voice over coming from Bob which then turns diegetic as we see him doing a shoot for a commercial which appears to be for whiskey. As he comes to the end of this and Japanese man shouts 'Cuto-cuto-cuto!' which presumably means 'Cut' as Bob stops and his smile drops. The director then speaks in Japanese and Bob looks confused. There is a translator who comes over and tells Bob what the director what he wants him to do. Bob continues to look confused as he says ''Are you sure that's it? Because it seems like he said much more than that?'' 
Non-diegetic music starts up along with a caption being show saying 'Bob is an actor'. Behind it is a city landscape, which triggers the question whether Bob is actually in Japan. We then see Bob walking in on a Japanese TV show with bright lights and a lot of clapping and shouting from the host. There is then a straight cut to see Bob on this program where he is unsure what he is doing as it's in Japanese. From this we can tell that Bob cannot speak a word of Japanese, therefore being confused in his surroundings. Another caption appears saying 'Bob is lost' which backs up the last statement about not knowing what's going on. There is then another straight cut to see Bob at a photoshoot for the whiskey again. Then there is a reverse shot from the photoshoot to Bob looking fed up in a car, then back to the photoshoot. This time the photographer is attempting to speak English but is doing so very badly so it takes Bob a long time to work out that he is giving him direction to look like he's from the 'Rat pack' era. Another caption appears which says 'Bob can't speak the language' which is shown in the previous few clips and the next one. This clip depicts a Japanese woman telling Bob to 'Lip her stockings' and this makes him confused. We then see Charlotte (played by Scarlett Johansson). The audience are then shown Bob talking to Charlotte and she is talking about her husband who is then depicted on screen before showing Charlotte lying on a bed looking bored. Charlotte is then shown walking through a busy city on her own. Bob then explains what he's doing in Japan, and then several clips of the film are shown which shows their friendship. Lastly the name of the film is brought up and then a final shot of Bob and Charlotte with her resting her head on Bob's shoulder-this portrays that they have become good friends and she trusts him which is the key to a good friendship.