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27 Cards in this Set
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Character Profiles - Sarah |
-Traumatic past with her husband and daughter dying. -Seems weak and feminine but becomes determined so seems dominant instead, she is likeable. -Finds dying Beth with Juno's necklace from her own husband so knows Juno slept with her husband behind her back. -Takes pills so is mentally unstable -Final girl as she is the 'innocent' one and is first to see the crawlers. |
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Character Profiles - Juno
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-Dominant as she is the one that sorted out the entire trip. -First to attack Crawlers so she's masculine. -Seems self absorbed due to not telling the others about being the first to explore this cave (unlike-able). |
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Character Profiles - Beth
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-Mother figure of the group and feminine. -First to try and calm the situation down. -Juno stabs her through the neck and leaves her to die by herself. -Sarah finds her and manages to tell her Juno did it and slept with her husband. |
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Character Profiles - Sam
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-Not dominant, Rebecca's younger sister. -Broke rule of not splitting up, tries to cross a gap and a crawler slits her throat -She's a useful character as she is the doctor of the group and finds that the crawlers are blind and have very good hearing. |
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Character Profiles - Rebecca
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-Very protective, especially over Sam. Takes every precaution. -As Sam dies Rebecca doesn't leave her and dies as well as a result. -Not dominant but isn't weak -Confrontational and wants to leave Sarah behind to save herself, Sam and Juno. |
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Character Profiles - Holly
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-First to break the rule of leaving the group and runs off, as a consequence she falls down a hole and breaks her leg. -Group have to leave her as the crawlers drag her off. -Has trouble following instructions from Juno (Holly is her Protoge) which makes her unlike-able. -Brings excitement to the group. |
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Character Profiles - Crawlers
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-Evolved Cavemen who have family bonds. -Almost like bats as they are blind and have incredible hearing as well as being bale to hand onto any surface. -Kill the group to protect their family. -Go out at night to hunt. |
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The Decent - Setting |
Outdoors in the middle of nowhere which makes you feel alone and lost. |
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The Decent - Themes |
Loss, Death, Survival, Secrets and Panic |
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The Decent - Narrative |
Chronological order with a one year ellipsis between Sarah's loss and the exploration. |
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The Decent - Mise-En-Scene |
-Climbing Equipment -Flares -Holly going down her rope too fast at the beginning foreshadows her falling down the hole later. |
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Links between The Decent and Other Films |
-Crawlers based/look like Nosferatu -Carrie because of the blood bath -Apocalypse Now with the decent into madness -28 Days Later where they wake up alone in the hospital -Marketing - Salvador Dali image made out of the girls body (on poster) and on the butterfly on Silence of the Lambs poster. |
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Inspiration for The Decent |
The Shining-Decent into madness Alien-Isolation The Deliverance-Adventure gone wrong |
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Preperation for the filming of The Decent |
They learned how to climb, cave and white water raft. Holly's actress cut her hair off and Rebecca's actress wrote a diary in the style of her character. |
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Character Profiles - Arthur Kipps
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Masculine and feminine due to being a single dad, wife dies in childbirth. Dominant as he tells others what is needed. He's likeable due to empathy from the audience. Becomes very forceful on finding out what is happening. He tries to save his son Joseph but both die and are reunited with their wife/mother. |
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Character Profiles - Samuel Daily
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Masculine and rich. He's stubborn and acts like the rumours are not true at all which puts Joseph in danger, this makes him unlike-able but he then tried to help Kipps. |
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Character Profiles - Elizabeth Daily
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Very feminine and motherly, lost her son so instead baby's 2 small dogs. Her dead son talks through her to tell her what the woman in black is making them do. She tells Kipps about what is happening and is likeable because of this. |
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Character Profiles - Jennet (Woman in Black) |
Very dominant as she makes children kill themselves. Her sister took her son away from her and let him drown in the marsh so she wants revenge. Very unlike-able due to the unnecessary killings. Jennet hung herself in her dead sons room. |
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Character Profiles - Jerome
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Is dominant as he keeps his daughter locked up to keep her safe but is not s dominant as Kipps. Quiet character and tells Kipps to leave for everyone's sake, Kipps doesn't listen and Jerome's daughter Lucy is killed by the Woman in Black. |
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Character Profiles - Eel Marsh House
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Dominant place within the film as it is where the entire narrative stems from. Kipps tries to reunite the dead boy with Jennet in the house but Jennets ghost will never forgive or forget. House will always be haunted. |
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The Woman in Black - Setting |
Small, remote village (Gifford) in the North East. Cut off and alone, creates feeling of hopelessness. |
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The Woman in Black - Themes
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Death Mystery Entities Helplessness |
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The Woman in Black - Narrative
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Linear structure, flashbacks to Kipps wife's death and jennets sons death. Almost everything is from Kipps P.O.V. Seeing the Woman in Black foreshadows a child's death. |
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The Woman in Black - Mise-En-Scene
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Drawing from Kipps son is reoccurring, so is paperwork. |
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How are the Characters Typical of The Genre in The Decent? |
Sarah is the final girl as she is innocent, smart, has lots of losses and is most determined. Juno is a hot head, she's stubborn, lost her boyfriend (Sarah's husband) and keeps a lot of secrets but thinks shes doing the best for the group. Rebecca and Beth are the motherly ones who look after the group. Beth is Sarah's place of trust and friendship. Crawlers are just trying to protect their family. The Cave is very secretive as only the group knows about it. |
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How are the Characters Typical of The Genre in The Woman in Black?
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Arthur is smart, caring an innocent. He loses his partner and becomes isolated. Jerome is stubborn but thinks he's doing the best for his town. Samuel is calm and becomes Arthur's place of friendship and trust. The village/Eel Marsh House has lots of secrets and mysteries. Jennet is very revengeful and doesn't just stop at punishing the one who did her wrong, she takes it out on everyone. |
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Links between characters in the 2 films. |
-Sarah and Arthur -Beth and Samuel -Juno and Jerome -The Cave and the House -Rebecca and Elizabeth -Sarah's husband and Jennets Sister |
