The Hunter(s)

Question 1

Summerise the book the hunter

Answer 1

• a psycholgical thriller
• set in tasminai gothic wilderness about locating the last thylacine
• in a poltical social commentary on huamns relationship with teh enviroment

Question 2

summerise the movie the hunter

Answer 2

• a family drama about martin
• on Tasmanian backdrop to hunt
• whilst staying with a dysfunctional but lovable family

Question 3

what are key themes of the book

Answer 3

• the battle for dominace between humans or in nature
• the natural man (perfect or obscene)
• time/space (manipulated and lost, out of conrtrol)
• fairtytales (fantastical elements of nature against practicality of man)

Question 4

what are key themes intriduced in the movie

Answer 4

• water (bath, drinking from, cold, controlled)
• fire (warm, unctrolled, naturally moving, consuming)
• miror (cinematics, evolution, introspective, duality)

Question 5

what is julia leighs context

Answer 5

• a female portaying masculinty
• majored in philosphy
• austlian

Question 6

what is daniel nettheims conext

Answer 6

• male
• filmamker, needing money adn studio support
• austlian

Question 7

what was julia leighs auidnce and prupose for writing

Answer 7

writing to explore hyper masculinity & romantisation and power of wilderness

Question 8

what was nettheims aduince and who was he trying to achive

Answer 8

the broadest possible audience

• familys, sanitised
• those invested in the environmental conflicts
• those wanting action packed Willem Defoe film

Question 9

how did the changes in audicnee effect the characters

Answer 9

REDUCTIVE.

• took M’s intorspective & judgemental nature
  –>
• to more expressive & collbative (exposition reuqired) & less steadfast in unlikable traits

Question 10

how did the changes effect the plot

Answer 10

sanitised the most striking elements

• making M more likable (defeating hypermasculine nature)
• psychogical drama –> standard charcter drama
• more extrenal
• more accesable & poltical-soical commnetary reduced (men as whole –> loggers)

Question 11

how did the changes effect the tone/atmosphere

Answer 11

• bleak
• slow burn
• msyerrious
• hypermascline with fairytales interspersed
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• more succinct (time & sanitisation)
• faster paced
• straightforward
• morally correct with happy endnigs

Question 12

what was added in film

Answer 12

• a prologue to give background, bad guy & exposition
• a love triangle & romantic tension
• conflict with loggers & assassins

Question 13

what was lost in transition

Answer 13

-naunce was lost, things were sanitised
- closeness/familiarity with M specifaclly, creating a far borader focus
- long sequences in nature were replaced with breif montages
- poltiocal social commentary

Question 14

how were the main changes made

Answer 14

• shifting the focus of the story
• reducing extended periods with M in nature
• giving each person a clear purpose & (cliche) character arc

Question 15

what a book codes and conventions and how are they used

Answer 15

• detailed decription of setting & people
• close third person perspective (detached but tied to central character)
• distortaion of time, unpredictable/uncontrolable - psycholgclly troubling

Question 16

what are movie codes and conventions and how are they used

Answer 16

• montages (visual & time effective)
• colour pallets (evolution in tone and character development)
• editing, funnelling attention in certain direction, introducing themes and character relation to each other

Question 17

what is the reader exeprience

Answer 17

• contemplative
• introspective
• judgemental & disdainful
• questioning reality of hunt
• confused (unexplained sequences of nothing (rock, unicorn))

Question 18

what is the viewer experience

Answer 18

• neat
• brief escape from reality where men make good thoughtful deciosns
• investment in family
• exciting, heart racing, edge of your seat

Question 19

how would book reader responsd to the movie

Answer 19

nettheim has to tackle the fidility conumdrum

• what are you removing for sake of brevity without losing core of the book
• reader to viewer experience would be simplified version of critical psychological commentary

Question 20

what are the changes in the time

Answer 20

• tarkin (north) vs upper florintine (south)
• 1999 vs 2011
• populatition of logging debate

Question 21

how does experience change in trasnition

Answer 21

book is contempative but can be bland
film hieghtens emotional expreince & investment

• long sequences of detailed description & judegments
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• sound, colour & setting already adding to expeirnce to get to plot faster

Question 22

what are some specfic textual examples for the book

Answer 22

• first entering of the house (speculating supernatural nature of door, refering to children as “perfroming a coup”)
• ending (detachment form armstrongs & calcting how to ablity to kill fellow hunters)
• mechaninacally performing scoial cue (chocolate as social getsure & enunciating clearly)

Question 23

what are some specific scenes to refer to form the movie

Answer 23

• bathtub motif
• mirrir/refekction motif, nalaamistics, detached
• martin returning to boy
• martin x wife convo about jarrah