Mise en Scene - Laura

The mise en scene suggests how there is a big difference between middle class and working class. For example, Nathan talks about how his dad, Gaz's flat is cold and messy. Later we see a shot of his mums home. It has a driveway and a nice car parked there. The house is big and looks clean and warm. This shows the difference between a middle class family home and a working class home. The difference between a home and a flat, being the only thing the working class could manage to afford. During an arguement, Gaz calls out for Nathan, however he is beign ignored. Gaz's excuse for this is that "he can't hear him through the triple glazed windows." This is sarcasm at how he knows they have lots of money and live off of the mum's new boyfriends money and home.

The performance during the film suggests how the working class male begin to give up and see themselves as failures. For example they all go to the jobclub however, make no effort in creating CVs or looking for job. Also, when Dave talks about his relationship with his wife, he says hes a failure and that his wife isnt interested anymore. When spying on the women at a womens only chippendales night at the local working mans club, Gaz over hears Dave's wife talk to a friend about how she feels that Dave has given up on her. This suggests how the lack of communication between them in their relationship has seperated their feelings, they feel the same about eachother, yet do not realise the situation.

• women peeing up the wall like a man
• suggests men are no longer needed - women can do everything men can nowadays

Audience - Laura Wright

The film "The Full Monty" won many awards and was nominated for many more. In 1998 they won an Oscar for best music. They also won an Audience Award and a BAFTA Film Award in 1998 for Best Film, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role - Robert Carlyle, and Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role - Tom Wilkinson. The film wonm many other awards and had a great reaction upon the audience. The film surprised the critics when it was first released, earning mostly posotive reviews.

In 2000, readers of Total Film Magazine voted The Full Monty the 49th greatest comedy film of all time.

Language - Laura Wright

Language is used in the film "The Full Monty" effectively to suggest their lifestyles. For example they carry a regional accent as they are from Sheffield. The way in which Gaz and Dave talk in front of Nathan, Gaz's son, tells us that they are carefree and dont have rules as to watch he teaches his son. For example when he sees Nathan on the weekend, he takes him out to steal bar of steel from the desolate factory to sell, telling Nathan not to worry as he can't get a criminal record until he is 16. This is not the kind of things he should be teaching his son however he is carefree on the matter. He also offers to take Nathan to the jobclub for a day out on the weekend. This is shocking to the audience as you would think that the little time he gets to spend with Nathan he would make the most of it and take him somewhere enjoyable for Nathan, like a football match.

Gaz's manner in front of his son is inappropriate. We know this by the things he makes his son do and how we talks in front of him.. For example, after encouraging Nathan to steal from the factory, when walking home they pass a woman. Amongst themselves, Gaz and dave rate her out of 10 and Gaz says "you can never tell without seeing their tits." This is inappropriate language and manner infront of Nathan. This is teaching him inappropraite language and behaviour and also disrespect towards women.

The Opening of the Film - Sarah

The news reel at the beginning is quite an important aspect to the film. Before the story has began, audiences are given an insight to what the City of Sheffield was like before the collapse if the steel industry. Without this, audiences that do not have any understanding of it may struggle to understand the feeling of the characters. With it audiences are given a look into what it was like for people who lived in cities such as Sheffield during the height of Industrialism.
There is almost something satirical about the comments made in the news reel. The Voice over states at on point the 'Sheffield - A City on the Move!" This comment was obviously made in regard to the success of the steel factories in Sheffield and how the city was developing. However, if you look at this comment in reference to the way the city turned out 25 years later, it could be seen that the move the city made was to lose its success and become the deprived area it now is.
Following the news reel, we then see main character Gary, Dave and Nathan in a desolate factory. This shows the change from what is seen in the news reel. Which shows men hard at work in busy factories and people enjoying themselves in newly built shopping centres. The comparison between the two shows the audience the drastic change between the city over time. It's almost hard to believe that it is the same city.

The news reel, for how short it is, is surprisingly imporatant. Without it, audiences may have difficulty connecting with the characters and the situatiuon they are in. It could be quite easy to judge the characters and lazy. But having seen what they've lost, and the opportunities they had to what they have now allows the audience to feel comparison towards the characters.

Mise en Scene - Sarah

The mise en scene in the Full Monty is an important aspect to the film, as it is this that gives the audience a insight into what living in Sheffield is like without having to hear it from the characters. From what is shown in the beginning of the film we can see that Sheffield has become a desolate run down area. With factories that used to be bustling with workers now empty and deserted. in the beginning to the film we see Gary, Dave and Nathan in an empty factory looking for metal they can steal to scrap. Compared to how this form of industry was shown in the news reel; full of employees woking hard, it is nowdilapidated. By showing this the audience can see what the people of Sheffield have had to go through when the steel industries were shut down.

After we see the factory, we see the chracters stranded in the middle of a river. We can see that the river has all sorts of junk that has been dumped into it, with cars trolleys and rubbish. This gives the audience the impression that now people are struggleing for jobs and money, they no longer care about the area they live in.
Anothert importand area we see the chracters in is the Job Centre. This is where the unemployed men spend their time looking for and applying for jobs. the room they spend their time in is a pokey, bland room that has a depressing feel to it.

Compared to the areas we see Gary and Dave in we then see the opposite end of the spectrum when we see the house that Gary's ex-wife lives in with her new boyfrind. The house is quite large in a nice area. Compared to the obvious working class characters the people thaty live in this house are well dressed and own a nice car.
It is apparant from the mise en scene that it was factory workers that were badly affected by the end of industrialism. Their is a feeling of depression to the workers of these old factories. But it is also obvious that people in other professions have not been as badly affected and are happy to turn a blind eye.

Mise en Scene - Emmanuel

The location of the scenes in Mis en scene shows a city going through recession, for example in the opening of the film Gaz and Dave attempt to steal some steel out of an abandoned factory to make some money, also it also represents the two characters as rebellious and defiant as stealing is illegal. Throughout the film there are locations of parks and abandoned buildings this shows that in the city of Sheffield there is a high risk of unemployment and the city in recession.

Also the performance of the characters in the film shows that there are working class for example all of the characters in the film has regional accent and the clothes they wear in the film are casual and simple, none of the characters in the film seem to wear extravagant clothes such as suits and designer wear except for the characters.

Language - Rosie Hatton

- The characters all have regional accents

- They all swear frequently and in front of their children freely. They let the kids do what they want, and they don’t worry about the son getting into trouble. Instead, they encourage it and tell him how he won’t get a criminal record until he is 16. This highlights how much they need money that he will let his child get into trouble.

- The language they choose to use shows how much they are struggling and stressed.

- The words they use express the stress they have to deal with. They are all desperate for money.

Institution - Rosie Hatton

- British film during the 1970s recession

- Directed by: Peter Cattaneo

- Produced by: Uberto Pasolini

- Written by: Simon Beaufoy

- The film holds the record for the highest-grossing UK film in history. It grossed a total of $256.9 million (£160.5 million)

-The film trailer was advertised showing that it was about 6 unemployed men who were in need to try and make some money. It showed that the film was real life. A lot of the target audience will have been in a similar situation so they could relate to the film. It speaks about the people sticking together so it suggests to the audience that they’re a community.

Mise en Scene - Rosie Hatton

-Sheffield, shown to be a desolate place which was left to decay

- They have casual clothes which are dirty which shows them to not care about how they look.

- There are abandoned factories to show the failed industry

-By showing the successful industry clips at the beginning highlights the contrast of what Sheffield used to be, to what it has turned into. They highlighted how it was going to be the upcoming city, so it shows how the working class didn’t keep it going for even 25 years.

Audiences - Rosie Hatton

- The Full Monty was a very successful film; it was nominated for 4 Oscars and won one.

- It was successful due to it being so real life, people liked how it was true to what happened in reality.

- Nominated for 11 Baftas, won 3 as well as 29 other awards.

- Came 3^rd in the ‘All time top 10 UK Films at the UK box office.’

- -New Zealand playwrights Anthony McCarten and Stephen Sinclair filed a £180,000,000 lawsuit against the producers of The Full Monty in 1998. They claim that the movie blatantly infringed on their play Ladies Night, which toured both Britain and New Zealand. Anthony McCarten and Stephen Sinclair created a website containing their play in response to statements from the producers of The Full Monty that claimed the two productions were not alike. The underlying rights were attributed to co-producer, Paul Bucknor, and the lawsuit was settled out of court; as part of the agreement, the website containing Ladies Night was shut down

Representation - Rosie Hatton

The main character Gaz is seen it to be determined, likeable, daring and has qualities of an entrepreneur.

Dave is shown to be more realistic and takes Daz’s ideas back to reality. He is shy and wants to get a job.

Gerald used to be the boss of the characters; he is represented to be a character who wants to be more middleclass. He is ashamed of the situation he is in and really wanted to work hard to get back into the working environment.

There is a wide variety of characters to widen the appeal and show different people’s perspective of when the steel industry collapsed.

The film shows a success story, which shows the characters determination paid off. It shows a true representation of what happens so the audience can relate to them.

The difference between the upcoming city to empty factory represents that the Sheffield workers have given up and nothings survived.

The difference between the life Gaz lives to his sons step dad shows that its not all of Sheffield, but the working class males suffered the most from the failure of the steel industry.

Audiences - Lee Baker

Audiences in America reacted to The Full Monty was firstly confusion as eventually they had to be given translation booklets in the cinema to understand the slang dialogue used by most of the characters in the film especially the main characters. The Full Monty was a box office hit being nominated for 4 Oscar’s and winning 1, being nominated for 11 BAFTA’s and winning 3 as well as 29 other awards. The Full Monty is also seventh of the top ten all time UK box office films and third of the all time UK films of the UK box office reaching a Box office gross of £52,232.058.

How the the working class male in represented in The Full Monty is mostly controlled by the institution. This was a British film that was also popular in the US. The Full Monty was released in 1997, directed by Peter Cattaneo and written by Simon Beautoy. The Full Monty was also surprisingly released in the USA on the 13^th of August 1997 before the UK on the 29^th of August which is rare as the separate release dates are so close and that a British made film was not the first to release most likely due to the American investment in the film.

Mise en Scene - Lee Baker

The mise en scene of this film shows a desperate and poor society struggling to survive the collapse of the local steel industry showing the number of ex employees of the steel mill out of work and struggling for work and finance which the story also reveals the other impacts of lack of work had on men of that era including relationship problems, self esteem issues and broken families. This is represented through mise en scene through the dark and dreary settings/lighting, performance of the actors including the desperation of keeping his son by Gary and the suicide attempt by Lomper.

Language - Lee Baker

The language used throughout the film of The Full Monty not only represents the locality of the film and the regional accents but also represents the attitudes of the characters with the persistent swearing and represents their morality due to hat they believe to be suitable conversation and language to be used in front of the Gary’s son.

The Representation of the Working Class Male - Lee Baker

The working class male is represented in The Full Monty is they are shown to struggle through life both financially and domestically. This is shown through there desperate attempts to gain finance to basically demean themselves. It shows the struggle of the working class through the depression and the breakdown of manufacturing. It shows the working class as having responsibilities in life where previously they have been shown to be careless and jack the lads they are represented though The Full Monty as having family responsibilities such as Gary and his son, Lomper and his mother and the other to their spouses.

The Sheffield News Reel - Lee Baker

The news reel at the beginning of the film gives the effect of a comparison of how it used to be, all advancing, production as the commentator says “a city on the move”, to a run down city with the main source of city income the steel factory desolate emphasising the depression of working class society.

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