Film: About Time - Genre
- Created by: jordananna
- Created on: 05-06-14 22:00
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- Film: About Time Genre
- Themes
- To fall in love - going to external lengths
- Quest of self - discovery - Tim at 21 at start of film to the end of having a family
- Coming of age - Boy to man
- True Love
- Importance of Family
- Iconography
- Wedding - non-typical (red wedding dress) - hipster
- Afternoon tea - typically briitish
- "For me its always going to be about love"
- Events - funeral, wedding, birthday parties
- Middle class costuming
- Kate Moss
- British weather - raining
- Typical Situations
- Wedding, marriage, children - typical of romance film
- Fantasy - time travelling
- Comedy - funny best man speech
- First date - cafe/ restaurant
- A happy ending/ happy ever after
- Love and family
- Everything all goes wrong when tying to help family member
- Comedy - language, posh peopple swearing
- Proposal
- First love - Romance
- Tragic events - sisters car crash, dads death (cancer)
- Settings
- England - London
- Mary's house - small, city, busy and above a vintage shop
- Cornwall - picture perfect
- Art Museum - Kate Moss
- Underground - Tube (London)
- Stock Characters
- Mary - American - love intrest
- Time - trying to fall in love - lead male
- Time's father - tells tim about his ability to travel in time
- Uncle Desmond - comic character
- Mary's parents - scary in-laws - awkward
- Kik kat - sister - quirky and funny
- Style
- Soft music/ happy music - soundtack
- Montage sequences - ellipsis
- Lyrics - how long will I love you
- High key lighting - typical to the genre
- Themes
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