LIFE WRITING RECKONING INFO
Magda Szubanski 2015 memoir
LIFE WRITING BOHEMIAN RAPSODY INFO
Bryan Singer 2018 bopic
RECKONING - truth - adhered
“My feelings had been invalidated for so long that they were stillborn, lifeless things.”
“I sat there frozen. I was a planet before creation.”
BOHEMIAN RAPSODY - truth - manipulated
“Band break up scene”
RECKONING - chorological structure - manipulated
“We were tugboats in the river of history… he needed to forget, I needed to remember…The only way forward is back”
BOHEMIAN RAPSODY - chronological structure - manipulated
“Live aid Scenes”
RECKONING - Context - adhered
” I wasn’t the only one who hated lesbians back then. Everyone did.”
“I was an outsider among outsiders.”
During Magda’s upbringing as a polish girl in Croydon,
BOHEMIAN RAPSODY - Context - adhered
During the Press conference scene, a women is shown to continuasly ask Freddy about his sexuality, rapid camera angles from all around the room are used and sounds of camera flashing are added, creating an unsettling environment for Freddy, the women also has an unsually calm tone compared to everything else in the room, suggesting that Freddy doesn’t belong and is an outsider.
RECKONING QUOTES - detailed research - adhered
“In Poland I started crying and I couldn’t stop. I started crying that day at pawiak and I cried myself to sleep every night I was there.”
BOHEMIAN RAPSODY - detailed research - adhered
“replication of wemberly stadium”
FOLLOW THE RABBIT PROOF FENCE - racism
Journey South -
“It will be better in the morning, the worst part of the storm will be over.”
“They settled back in their cosy, warm cabin.”
RABBIT PROOF FENCE - racism
Journey South
- trapped in cage
- looked down on
- dehumanised
FOLLOW THE RABBIT PROOF FENCE - resilience
Resilience of Nyungar and Mardu People
- “ I take it that I have your consent” said captain Freemantle nodding to the Nyngar men who stoof motionless.”
“We can’t go down along out hunting trails…..they are blocked by fences.”
RABBIT PROOF FENCE - resilience
Resilience of the girls - Molly
“Molly carring daisy”
- sounds of feet dragging feet
- Full shot
FOLLOW THE RABBIT PROOF FENCE - connection to land
Kandulla- first page - spiritual elder -
“ Splash of fish, birds tweeting, calm, leafy branches.”
“Early morning rituals”
“as the sun rose, he could meditate and reflect on the day”
RABBIT PROOF FENCE - connection to land
Moodoo - added by Noyce - poorly treated by Neville
- close up shots of him analysing the girls footprints
- suggesting that he knows where they are but doesn’t want to let riggs know
- shows how he understands the land that he had lived on
Jasper Jones Info
Kate Mulvany - 2016 - Playscript
Jasper Jones - Masculinity
“Oi, Wishart. Show us your tits”
“Oi Cunt eyes”
“okay Charlie that’s enough now”
“youre a lot like her you know”
Jasper Jones - Femininty
“Laura was the only person I ever felt like I knew”
“She was real smart…..real funny, real clever”
“Stage directions where Mrs Bucktin slaps Charlie.”
“Charlie, dig that bloody hole until you hit a Mexican, you hear me.”
Jasper Jones - Marginalisation
“not sure 16 I think”
“thinks I’m an animal” “thinks I belong In a cage”
“They beat the shit outta him”
“ba ca hai tay!”
