This is the final film opening I am looking at for my general research but also to prepare for my Tyrannosaur swede, the final practice exercise.
Lead actors: Peter Mullan,
Budget: £750k
UK/US/World Box Office: £243k, $22k, £400k.
Production co's: Warp X, Inflammable Films
Production financing: Film4;UK Film Council; Screen Yorkshire; EM Media; Optimum Releasing.
UK, US theatrical distributors: StudioCanal, Strand.
LINKS: IMDB; RottenTomatoes (Users 83%, Critics 85%); BoxOfficeMojo; The-Numbers; Wiki; Official site/page; Facebook.
TRAILER
Paddy Considine (2011)
BBFC 18, MPAA unrated
Running time of the opening sequence: 2:57 mins
Budget: £750k
UK/US/World Box Office: £243k, $22k, £400k.
Production co's: Warp X, Inflammable Films
Production financing: Film4;UK Film Council; Screen Yorkshire; EM Media; Optimum Releasing.
UK, US theatrical distributors: StudioCanal, Strand.
LINKS: IMDB; RottenTomatoes (Users 83%, Critics 85%); BoxOfficeMojo; The-Numbers; Wiki; Official site/page; Facebook.
TRAILER
CRITICAL KUDOS: (wiki)
Tyrannosaur received positive reviews and currently has a "certified Fresh" score of 83% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 75 reviews, with an average rating of 7.3 out of 10. The critical consensus states: "Tyrannosaur is a brutal, frank, and ultimately rewarding story of violent men seeking far-off redemption."[6] The film also has a score of 65 out of 100 based on 18 critics on Metacritic, indicating "Generally favourable reviews".[7]Stuart McGurk of GQ magazine called Tyrannosaur "The best British film of the year", whilst Empire said it was "Riveting, uncompromising, brilliant" and gave it 4/5 stars, as did Total Film, The Guardian, Sunday Mirror, and Evening Standard. The Daily Star Sunday and LoveFilm gave the film 5/5 stars and The Sunday Telegraph dubbed it "One of the most powerful films of 2011."
The American film critic and blogger Jeffrey Wells was so taken by Tyrannosaur after seeing it at the Los Angeles Film Festival that he started 'Hollywood Elsewhere's Tyrannosaur fundraising campaign' with the idea of raising $2,000 to cover the rental of a screening room so that the film could be shown in Hollywood with the hope of gaining recognition. Wells claimed this was the first screening financed by a critic.[8]Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, calling Peter Mullan's performance muscular and unrelenting. He also remarked: "This isn't the kind of movie that even has hope enough to contain a message. There is no message, only the reality of these wounded personalities."[9]Mark Kermode of BBC Radio 5 Live, hailed the film as one of the 11 Best Films of 2011.[10] Kermode went on to award Olivia Colman Best Actress in his own Annual Kermode Awards. She tied with Tilda Swinton for We Need to Talk About Kevin.
By 18 December 2011, the film had won 21 awards from 28 nominations worldwide.
When the BAFTA Award nominations were announced on 17 January 2012, the omission of Olivia Colman in the Best Actress category led to global trending of both Olivia Colman and Tyrannosaur on Twitter.[11]
IDENTS:
N/A, no idents, just like with Le Donk & This Is England.
TITLES:
Are non-serif and white, lower-case apart from capital letters like names are usually spelt.
The roles are smaller and, unconventionally, upper-case in contrast to names in lower-case.
- Film4 AND The UK Film Council IN ASSOCIATION WITH Screen Yorkshire, EM MEDIA AND OPTIMUM RELEASING PRESENT
- A Warp X/Inflammable Films PRODUCTION
- A FILM BY Paddy Considine
On action, as the music begins, switching between left and right near the screen edge.
- Peter Mullan
- Olivia Colman
- Ned Dennehy
- Samuel Bottomley
- Paul Popplewell
- Sally Carman
- Sian Breckin
MISE-EN-SCÈNE:
Urban location, not glamorised,
NARRATIVE, GENRE, EXPOSITION:
We are introduced to the main character, and we already have the binary opposition within his own character/personality shown.
The other protagonist of the story, is still to be introduced.
THE PROTAGONIST:
My teacher asked me as the vulgar swearing started whether we were going to feel sympathy for the protagonist. I said definitely not in the opening sequence. I as an audience member was proven wrong.
The music and close-ups of the dog's paws are used to create sympathy for the protagonist.
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