Alter egos are common in many films, as they have the power to enforce the genre. For example, many alter egos can be shown with a comedic value, however they can transition and create a significantly different atmosphere as many can present a dark character, influencing negative actions.
Example of Comedic Alter Ego's
The Mask
The Mask focuses on creating a comedic alter ego, with an extravagant and care-free personality as a contrast to the original character of Stanley Ipkiss. This alter ego is used positively as he is portrayed as a super hero once the mask is on and reinforces the comedic, family film that was created and distributed to a set target audience.
Examples of Thrilling Alter Ego's
Fight Club
The Fight Club is a significant contrast to "The Mask" as this primarily focuses on a negative alter ego. The unnamed narrator in Fight Club leads an emotionally vacant life until he meets Tyler Durden, however it is later revealed that the unnamed narrator and Tyler Durden are the same person. The idea of a negative alter ego has the effect of making this film successful in terms of it's genre as a positive alter ego would create a completely different storyline that is not desirable to its target audience.
Our Own Production
For our film we took the idea of a negative alter ego as without this, our film would not be as successful in terms of its genre. We chose to have our alter ego acting as a menace to our main character Vera to reinforce her mental disability that cannot be controlled, further presented through the murders which were all influenced through this alter ego. Similarly to the Fight Club we decided to reveal the alter ego later in the film, rather than introducing her at the beginning as this would create confusion for our audience and create a cliff-hanger at the ending, leaving the audience wanting to know more.
No comments:
Post a Comment