Analyzing The Movie 'The Martian'

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The Director, Ridley Scott, of, The Martian 2015, has employed film language to convey ideas about important themes directed at teenagers. Scott has sent his powerful message to the audience of teenagers by successfully using symbols, written text, an amazing audio track and highly entertaining technical features.
Ridley Scott has used Themes, to convey messages to the audience (Mostly Teenagers/Adults), to help them make it more interesting for the viewers. The Main type of themes that Ridley has used is: Isolation, Fear, Sacrifice, Perseverance, Science, Man vs Natural World and Friendship.
Isolation is the main theme of the movie: The Martian. Mark Watney, who is played by (Matt Damon) is a professional botanist and is stranded by his crew
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In my own opinion, I would generally watch the movie first, then read the book.
The Director, Ridley Scott, of, The Martian 2015, has employed film language to convey ideas about important themes directed at teenagers. Scott has sent his powerful message to the audience of teenagers by successfully using symbols, written text, an amazing audio track and highly entertaining technical features.
And also just one last thing that I would like to add before I finish off my film review is that in my own opinion, I really liked this movie, it showed a great use of Music and Themes so I would say go for it, go out and watch this movie because if you don’t watch this fantastic movie you would regret it later on when your friends ask you that “Have you seen the Martian” then you would be like “No I haven’t seen the movie” and then your friends would say that it’s a fantastic movie and that you missed out on all the

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