United 93

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  • United 93
    • Man with black/dark navy polo and reddish hair
      • first one to pay for the airfone to call his wife.
        • 'Listen, Sweetie, I want you to call the authorities.'
          • Imperative lang: seemed patronizing. Alternatively, him taking control in tense situation, limited time, great importance
          • Term of endearment, cares about his wife
            • Makes him relatable, brings up the feeling 'it could have been me'
        • Act of defiance towards the terrorists
      • Typical average American: working, family man (camera shows great importance to the ring)
    • Man with blue and yellow polo and baseball cap
      • Got on the plane last
        • Air hostess says: 'You just made it'
          • Dramatic Irony: audience knows that if he missed the plane, he would have lived
      • Camera looks at this man from above most of the time, and usually spends longer on him, hinting at the significance of the character
        • The camera also looks at him from the back, which Greengrass rarely does with other characters
    • Terrorist: Ziad (Glasses pilot)
      • Rarely blinks
      • Leader of operation
        • Convinces Youngy (dark blue and light blue polo) to go ahead with operation in Arabic. Loose translation of dialogue: 'we have to'
          • Ziad sounded like he needed convincing too, so he repeated the same line again and again
            • Looks like he is having an internal struggle (also shown through speech)
              • Rarely blinks
              • angry, but scared of what he is about to do
        • 'Open the door and no one will be hurt': has the power to decide who lives and dies
        • Pilot of plane after highjack
          • Puts a picture of Capitol building in his eyeline once he takes over of the controls of the plane
            • Suggests that this was their initial target
    • Co- pilot
      • The first scene with the pilot is him talking about his home town, family and other personal details.
        • Normal person carrying out his daily duties
          • Makes him relatable, brings up the feeling 'it could have been me'
        • Before taking off, he talks about his 11 month old daughter.
        • Received com from his wife before he died

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