City Of God

Question 1

Name of the Tender Trio members

Answer 1

Goose, Shaggy, Clipper

Question 2

Which tender trio character is shot by the police?

Answer 2

Shaggy

Question 3

Who is Lil Ze’s best friend

Answer 3

Benny

Question 4

Quote to describe LilZe’s one obsession

Answer 4

“One obsession, to become the boss of the slums”

Question 5

What does bennie become?

Answer 5

“A playboy”

Question 6

Quote to describe bennie

Answer 6

“Coolest hood in the city of God”

Question 7

“The problem is simple, LilZe was ugly, knockout need was ………. He could get any girl he wanted. LilZe had to…….. ….. …….. ……..

Answer 7

Handsome

Had to pay or use force

Question 8

The tone of theirs world cinema can reflect a revolutionary atmosphere and deliver its message, expressing frustration with what?

Answer 8

Class, racial or gender oppression

Question 9

Third world cinema aims for ……………. Of the oppressed

Answer 9

Liberation

Question 10

How does theirs world cinema challenge viewers?

Answer 10

It challenged viewers to reflect on the experience of poverty and subordination by showing how it is lived, not how it’s imagined.

Question 11

What is one of the major way in which city of God illustrated how it is a third world film?

Answer 11

By its main setting being in a real favela

Question 12

What does rocket aim to do?

Answer 12

Rocket aims to be liberated form his oppressive home, supporting idealists within third world cinema of ‘liberation of the oppressed’.

Question 13

How does rockets character subvert previously held conceptions that everyone in the favela resorts to violence to survive?

Answer 13

He gets a job and chooses not to use violence

Question 14

What was responsible for the proliferation of favelas in Brazil?

Answer 14

The wave of migration form the country side to the cities from the 40’s to the 70’s

Question 15

From 1950 to 1980 the number of people living in favelas increased from what to what by the early 21st century?

Answer 15

170,000 to more than 600,000

Question 16

How do audiences see lil zee gain power?

Answer 16

Through a low angle montage of graphic shots. Contrast to goose looking down on him. The gun he holds gives him power and this is the point in which the camera moves from a high angle to low.

Question 17

How do we see lil Ze’s greedy nature early on?

Answer 17

Close ups of material goods as lil zee looks at other dealers.

Question 18

How do we see a sense of lil Ze’s mental instability?

Answer 18

During the montage we only see lil Ze’s shooting gun, showing that he has not changed despite getting older, suggesting an arrested development and the handheld camera suggests mental instability as it is shaking. Furthermore the diegetic sound of laughter as he kills people is psychopathic and off putting to his characte

Question 19

What year was Gita of his released?

Answer 19

2002

Question 20

How does rocket have power?

Answer 20

As he is the narrator

Question 21

How do the rungs get power?

Answer 21

By killing lil ze they start power cycle again. They inherit his money and territory

Question 22

How is power demonstrated?

Answer 22

Violent acts and murder

Question 23

What physical representations of power are there?

Answer 23

Money as its gets lil ze out of jail

Gun as you can kill others for territory

Question 24

What triggers a war in the favelas?

Answer 24

Bennies death

Question 25

What happened when someone dies

Answer 25

Their death acts as an exchange of status and power to killer

Question 26

Who directed it?

Answer 26

Fernando Meirelles

Question 27

Opening scene

Answer 27

Fast edits
Knive noise and image - danger
Fiesta music, cultural
Blue tint
Close ups - gives a sense of the crowded and claustrophobic city
See guns very early on, establishes them as a major theme
Chasing chicken gives a sense of the aimlessness of their lives

Question 28

What is the effect of using sepia in the 60 sequence?

Answer 28

Gives a warm atmosphere and sense of happiness, contrasts to scene before which is cold and blue

Question 29

Cinematography contrast between 60 and 80

Answer 29

Use of long shots. During 60’s to show freedom, contrast to use of close ups in pending scene

Question 30

Editing during 60’s contracts to 80’s

Answer 30

A lot slower, calmness

Question 31

As soon as lil ze comes into shot during 60’s what happens

Answer 31

The shots get tighter, showing rising tension and he is robbing them of the freedom they had before

Question 32

Guns were once used for liberation as seen during 60’s but lil zee makes them tools of oppression

Answer 32

True

Question 33

During the 60 what is the mise em scene overall saying?

Answer 33

Yogi be a sense of stability and happiness, white clothes, warm colours, laughing children

Question 34

How are the assperations of young string different to assperations of young runts

Answer 34

Stringy wants to be a life guard, runts want to kill

Question 35

When the tender trio are sat with lil dice they are covered in barbed wire and metal rods, what does this tell us?

Answer 35

When lil ze is around there is no control with the gun, the three become trapped

Question 36

Apartment montage

Answer 36

Montage of long shot, low lighting graphic matches
Starts of Sypia, warm and welcoming, becomes blue, cold and eroded
Introduces characters and shows a passing of time through fades
Edits become faster
Constant use of non diegetic sound track, shows how this is a never ending cycle

Question 37

Story of lil dice

Answer 37

First shot is low angle close up, because he has the gun he is powerful
Gives a sense of his mentality through psychotic laughter after killing
Do not see the bodies that he shoots, does not matter to him
The highly contrasting lighting between sepia and very low key shadows- when lil ze is involved thing become very exaggerated and out of control
When goose gets involved we see lil ze in a very high angle, until he gets the gun out in which it turns to low
Graphics matches of lil ze growing up but never changing, shows a passing of time. The shots get very hand held and shaky to show unstable mind.
Canted angle when he is sniffing around competition, shows his unstable mind but bennie in the shot keeps it stable

Question 38

Shooting runts

Answer 38

Before lil ze shows up the camera is very stable and does not use many cuts, just pans. When he does show up angels are introduced, hand held camera is employed, the focus goes off, use of a lot of close ups make it very claustrophobic and crashes a a sense of danger as we cannot escape.
Age provides power in this situation, but guns push it forward

Question 39

In what way do we see that bennie cannot escape?

Answer 39

When he says that he wants to to to a farm, reminded of shaggy who could escape and we know that he cannot either

Question 40

Bennies party

Answer 40

Crowded shots this time portray popularity rather than claustrophobia.
Stables shots even though it is a stable atmosphere connotes that even though lil ze is there bennie is in control.
Camera becomes out of focus and hand held when lil ze gets mad, connotes danger is approaching. Canted Angels, fast cuts, close ups, zooming in and out.
Strobe lighting is introduced to create further sense of panic, acts as cuts, very disorientating and , audience feel powerless, unable to help, blue lighting is introduced to show death, going between close ups and long shots, to show instability. low angel on black.
As soon as bennie is shot we have diegetic sound of people screaming, creates panic.

Question 41

Knockout ned montage

Answer 41

Feels less threatening then when lil ze steals, use of dissolves allow it to feel calmer and mor win control
Hand held cameras place us in the middle of the action, non diegetic is ambient and uplifting, reminding us that it is all for the greater good.
Use of cuts at end create pace but not as bad as lil zes