Thursday 16 January 2014

Personal analysis: Napoleon Dynamite.

Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 comedy about a high school student, called Napoleon Dynamite, who lives with his grandmother and his older brother Kip.
 We can tell right from the start of the sequence that Napoleon may live with an elderly person or someone who likes a particular style. We can tell this because the carpets are fairly old fashioned and the colours are very bright and do not stick to one particular colour like what we would expect to see in a modern day household. Also at the start of the clip there is birds chirping in the background which suggests that this film is set somewhere in the suburbs. We can tell this because if it was set in a city there would be the noise of traffic in the background. The fact that it is set in the suburbs could also suggest that nothing exciting ever usually happens there and it's not particularly interesting.

 From this clip we can also tell that the main character is a fairly unhealthy, teenage boy. We can tell this because there is alot of unhealthy foods, and alot of sauce on the plates used at the start, and the foods used throughout the clip are fairly unhealthy. However there is one shot (00.58) where there are some healthier foods, this suggests that Napoleon is trying to be healthy but does not want to give up his fatty, unhealthy foods. There is also a shot (01.39) of a box of sweets, that say 'a fat free food' this also suggests that he is trying to be more healthy but again, does not want to give up on unhealthy foods. The sweets also suggest that he may have fairly bad teeth.
 The shot of the cards in Napoleons wallet (00.25) suggest that he is a bit of a geeky, unpopular character. We can tell this because he has 'UFO abduction insurance'. Not many people are willing to admit that they believe in aliens, so Napoleon can't have many friends as not many people will have that in common with him. Later on in the clip we also see that he has a book about Bigfoot and a book about science, this also suggests that he is geeky and is a skeptic.
 We also learn that Napoleon is fairly organised and doesn't like to be in trouble as he is checking when his borrowed library books are due back, this also suggest he is a bit geeky and likes to read. We can also see that he is organised because later in the clip (02.21) he has school equipment out and is prepared. This again, could make him be seen as geeky. The fact that his pencils are sharp suggests that he like to draw and is always doodling whenever he can.

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