This is England = Combo's Montage Flashcards
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Cinematography =
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- Slow reverse panning camera as the group are walking. Highlights how unnatural the group look together with children and adults
- High angel shot of the group in the underpass which shows the poverty and dark tones
- Close up of Shaun spraying his name which is juxtaposed of a low angle of Combo spraying racial slurs on the wall
- High angle of Combo teaching Shaun how to walk, intimadate and teaching him slurs to use
- High panning angle of them walking upto the boys
- Close up of Shaun’s reaction when Combo is being horrible. Smiling and laughing which highlights how he has been fully indocrinated
- Close up of Combo being threatening to the young children
- Wide shot of them smoking outside the church. Lingering shot of the church with grafitti on
- Extreme close up of Shaun being tattooed with a cross
- Close up of Shaun getting the St George’s Flag and then low angle of him hanging it in his window
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Mise en Scene =
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- Worn down British streets covered in graffiti and poor housing
- Set design of the underpass which is covered in their racial slurs. It is dark, cold and looks neglected which aids their ability to openly put slurs
- The church is contrasted by their smoking and violent behaviour. Reads Maggie is a twat
- Costume of Shaun’s Tattoo which highlights the permanence of the ideologies
- Use of a St George’s Flag which often represents english identity, pride and the blood shed in defense of England. It has been associated with racism and linked to ideologies of national pride to exclude immigants and minority groups
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Editing =
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- A dissolve of a St George’s Flag which is typically associated with nationalism. This flag has become a symbol of rascim and anti-immigration
- Slow motion of the gang walking
- Dissolves into other sequences of the group graffiting hateful messages where the flag slowly fades out
- Dissolves of the slurs on the wall
3
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Sound =
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- Ludovico Einaudi’s melancholy score
4
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Performance =
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- Combo patting Shaun’s back which shows him adapting to a somewhat father figure of Shaun
- Combo celebrates teaching Shaun how to use racial slurs
- ‘Sewer rats’ Racial stereotypes and dominating the land they believe to be theres
- Laughter between Shaun and Combo after getting tatooed
- Shows Combo’s rascist and violent ideologies, threatening the women and the children with weapons
5
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Narrative =
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- Becomes a climax of the movie where Shaun has become completely indoctrinated into
- Shaun enjoys the indoctrination and accepts it
- Shows the emotional manipulation he has undergone
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Ideology =
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- Deragotory words to women naming them as ‘whores’ which shows their opinion on women and those who disobey them
- Shows how his views of nationalism has turned into violence
