Tyldum And Eastwood Comparison

Both texts employ characterisation to develop their main protagonists as leaders and role models worthy of adulation. Yet, Eastwood and Tyldum differ in their interpretation of what makes a national hero. Eastwood initially represents Sully as a symbol of the average male, through a range of establishing camera angles, which perpetuates him as a calm-mannered, methodical pilot. Likewise, Tyldum's use of shadows and lighting accentuates a half-lit face of Turing in a police interrogation room, making him appear helpless and troubled. Furthermore, this half-lit lighting of his face symbolises that there is another side to Alan, where he is a prisoner inside himself, with his sexuality revealed to the police. Sully is constructed as a reserved man who believes that ‘(he) is not a hero’, his actions later dubbed the ‘miracle of the Hudson’. Unlike …show more content…
Alan Turing is constructed as reserved and repressed, through the voice over and behaviour. He served as the somewhat peculiar and methodical leader of the code-breakers. Tyldum uses Turing to voice the challenges he faced in his life from the narrator/protagonist to the audience. Turing suggests, ‘‘Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine’, this is what he believed. Alan had a yearning for credit for his efforts during the war to show the people that were a part of his life that his accomplishments saved theirs. In doing this, Tyldum challenges the status quo of being a national hero, and shows that a homosexual man was the forefront for single handily ending the war years earlier and saving lives. By challenging the status quo, he works to unveil the oppressive mechanisms of prison or chemical castration that generated forced conformity, shown in the text. Also, presenting alternative perspectives of homosexuality in the