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DEFINITION OF DRAMA
GENRE
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic
characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug
addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against
women and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and
even natural phenomena. Drama is the most broad of movies genres and includes
subgenres as romantic drama, sport films, period drama, courtroom drama and crime.
Director: Tyler Perry
Released date: 11th September
2009
Distributing date: Lionsgate
I can do bad all by myself
Plot• Medea catches a 16 year old girl Jennifer and her two brothers robbing her home
• She decides to take matters into her own hands and deliver the young kids to their
only relative.
• April is the aunt of these kids
• She’s a heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off Raymond, her married boyfriend.
• April wants nothing to do with the kids but her attitude changes when Sandino, a
handsome Columbian immigrant looking for work move into April’s basement room
• Sandino challenges April to open her heart. And April soon realizes she must make the
biggest choice of her life: between her old ways with Raymond and the new
possibilities of family, faith ... and even true love
Conventions in genre
Young attractive women Thug Vulnerable female
Love Poor/ medium class workers Children
Emotions Death
Care Family
Neglected Confused
Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkUvBCW-tS4
Still photographs
• It’s a full angle shoot so
you can see everyone
on the table.
• Characters look hungry
and neglected from a
poor background.
• The thug
• Controls his
girlfriend and the
children
• One of the kids
• Upsets about none looking
after her and her brothers.
Plot • The colour purple followers the like of Celie Johnson as she struggles through life in
the early 1990s.
• The film begins with Celie about 17 years old, giving birth to her 2nd child, sired by
her father
• Her father takes the second child away from her and tells her never to tell anyone
about it.
• a rich farmer comes by to marry Celie's younger, prettier sister, Nettie. Her father
refuses to let Nettie marry and gives the man Celie instead.
• The movie culminates in Celie leaving Mister with the threat that everything he
touches will fall apart until he does right by her. Mister finds compassion and goes to
the INS to help Celie's sister Nettie prove that she is a US citizen and return from
Africa where she has been living with Celie's two children who had been given to a
missionary and his wife. Celie is reunited with Nettie and her two children in a
heartfelt ending to an extraordinary film.
Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d83NnlL83mc
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