Semiotic Analysis Of Winter's War

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The brothers Grimm did not come up with the fairy tale but they did in did write their own version of the story and put it in a book. The Snow White story came way before the brothers and was told by housewives busy with chores to help pass time (Myint B 2014). The movie Winters War is a sequel from the movie 2014/2015 Snow White and the Huntsman. This essay will consist of a series of explanations of the syntagmatic analysis on the movie The Huntsman: Winter’s War.

2. Semiotic Analysis on Winter’s War

In this movie there is more than one of propps functions, which I’ve identified.
Villainy is the first propp function, which is evident in this trailer out of the list of 33 functions that propp had drawn up to help break down the storyline
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Freya’s is also evil as she would kidnap children from Kingdoms and raise them to become her own huntsmen. Which grow up and then the cycle starts all over again they older huntsmen would go and find a kingdom and raid them of their …show more content…
As conceptual implies that the source that you working with has a clear introduction, a body to work with and then a conclusion which ties everything together wrote Daniel Chandler in is book The Basics: Semiotics (2002).

3. CONCLUSION

I find that the propps functions, which, I have mentioned above is relevant to the movie as these propps, have been used to build the storyline of the movie. It was interesting to create a analyses on this movie as it is a recent movie with good effects and a captivating storyline which just makes the viewer want to go watch the movie. As I said in the above paragraph the trailer has a conceptual relation. Which is a good example on how to describe or break down the movie. The trailer shows parts of the movie but not all of them, which is a good technique to use to let the viewer want to go watch the

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