Scarface

Scarface: Part 1

Target Audience: use the different ways of defining audiences from your audience profiles to identify who you feel is the target audience.

The target audience for this movie is mostly males because are most likely to watch violent, dark films like this. To watch this movie you would have to enjoy a lot of violence because even in the first 10 minutes of the movie there is violence already shown in the movie. The women in this movie are very sexualise and they women that we see in this movie are either in bikinis or in tight clothing, this would attract a male audience to watch this. Also all the lead characters are male and would appeal more to the male gender. This movie is also a very long movie so the target audience would have to have a good attention span. This movie could also be targeted at Al Pacnio fans.

Genre Conventions: identify the genre conventions of 'gangster films' reflected in the film. Is there anything unconventional about the film?

Gangster films tend to be very violent which this film has a lot of for example when the man used a chainsaw to slice a man to pieces.  In a gangster movie you always see tension between two groups of people which normally ends up in a shoot out. All gangster films are based around men because they are seen to be more stronger and fearless. Another genre convention is also the rise and fall of the main character. You see the main character starting from a poor background with no money then they slowly climb become more and more powerful then once they are at the top thing begin to fail and ends up resulting in the death of the main character. Discrimination is also a another genre convention, in gangster film you normally see a particular race like black people, Latinos, italians and etc discriminated by white people. 

Representation: how do you feel men are portrayed? Identify stereotypical aspects of 'masculinity' that is highlighted.

The man in scarface are represented to have a very big ego especially Tony Montana and Manny. The men in this film especially Tony as seen to be very aggressive, stubborn, fearless and to have quick tempers. It also seem that when things don't go their way they result to violence. They rather die then to seem weak against other people. The men are also seen to be rich and powerfully e.g they are dressed in suits and live in big houses. Tony Montana treats females as object because he said to Manny that 'you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power then you get the women' this makes it seem that for you to get women you have to have money. 

Narrative: identify what you feel are the key conventional narratives of gangster films reflected in this film?

In gangster some typical narrative is based on a drug deal that goes extremely wrong and resulting in a lot of people dying. There is always the main character (Tony) that falls  in love with the bosses girlfriend and starts having a relationship with them. The main characters (Tony and Manny) also start of poor and have no power in society and then becomes rich by the end of the movie. There is also someone in the film that teaches them everything they know about the business. Tony Montana takes over and eventually kills his previous mentor.


Scarface: part 2

Target Audience: How Tony Montana in the film might appeal to the target audience?

Tony Montana becomes more and more confident as he gain more power, he also tells the truth and sticks to his words. Even though Tony does some very crazy and violent things he sticks to his moral and is very protective of family. This could appeal to some of the target audience because even though he is a very violent and stubborn person he can seen to be some type of role model. 

Genre Conventions: How story begins to develop? 

Tony starts to not like his boss/mentor because he thinks he is too soft and he also wants he's girlfriend. Tony starts to create he's own connections with people which helps him to start his own business instead of working for the his old boss. As Tony become more powerfully he starts to become even more arrogant and starts to become a bit mental and even more paranoid. 

Representation: How Tony Montana mental state develops?

Tony starts to be over protective over his little sister and watches every move she does eventually ends up following her and the guy she is with to the toilet and beats him up and also slaps his sister. I think this shows that he is becoming a bit mental because in the begining of the movie you see the bond between and him and his sister and then for him to slap her you can see the clear changed. He also becomes very paranoid for example when the police officer touches his shoulder he the club he quickly reacted. 

Narrative: How the story builds up? and the raise and fall of Tony Montana?

You see that the mother is very distinct towards Tony because she believe that every thing he does involves trouble and does want him to be apart of her life. You start seeing the relationship between Tony and his sister. Tony starts to make more money and more connections. Tony starts to become more powerful and people start to fear him more.