First 5 Shots #2 - Bridget Jones's Baby

WHAT I ENDED UP APPLYING

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POSSIBLE POINTS OF INFLUENCE

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TITLE

Director, 2009

PRODUCTION COMPANIES: BBC Films, 
                                                 UK Film Council,
                                                 Aramid Entertainment

DISTRIBUTOR: Universal (US)
                          Optimum Releasing (UK)

GENRE: Political satire 
               (subgenre of comedy)

LEAD ACTORS: Peter Capaldi

                            Tom Hollander

                            Chris Addison

                            Gina McKee

                            James Gandolfini

BBFC:  15                 MPAA: Not Rated

BUDGET: £612k       
BOX OFFICE: $3.5m (UK) $2.4m (US) $7.8m (worldwide)


CRITICAL KUDOS

ROTTING TOMATOES: 94%                     IDMb: 7.5/10

REVIEWS (from wiki)

A full list of reviews listed on IDMb here.

TRAILERS:

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SYNPNOSIS:

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SHOT 1

Medium longshot, immediate exposition of the protagonist, no narrative enigma (very brief the snow blocks some of her). Very little information is withheld, she's English, she's RP/middle-class connotations, she's a spinster. Sexuality not known yet, could be that she prefers women but highly unlikely. In background too couples. This creates a binary opposition, forever single/happy together. The whole plot of the film is to get her married to "Mr Right", and in the context of the whole. 

SHOT 2

Disolving transition into an extreme longshot of the snowy landscape a

SHOT 3

Panning shot to reveal cottage-like home. To signify her feeling of discomfort, dreaded anticipation of returning home?

SHOT 4

A woman is answering the door. This is counter-hegemonic in terms of patriarchic. However they seem to soon break the Bechdel Test by talking about a man.

SHOT 5

This is both a high and a dutch (also known as canted) angle, we still see no father or other male figure near the door, can be read as non-normative and counter hegemonic. Wealth is signified, along with the RP-accent this anchors a middle class family.