Harry Brown Homework

Questions:

• Year of release: 2009

• Classification: 18 years old

• Companies responsible for making the film: 

- Uk film council
- Marv Films

- Framestore
- Hanway films

• Distributed: Lion Gate UK

• Revenue the film took: 

- Budget: 7,300,000

- Domestic gross: 1,818,681

- Worldwide gross: 6,294,140

- Profit: - 1,005,860 = no profit


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Brief Synopsis: 

The film Harry Brown is based on a estate that used to be peaceful until the gangs formed. The film contains a number of violent scenes involving the gangs and very strong language is used frequently throughout the film. Harry Brown is the main character and his friend is murdered on night by his own weapon by the gang. Harry is told by the police that his friend was murdered and Harry's reaction is very different from others who live on the estate. He decides that enough is enough and he is going to do something about it by finding the killer. Whereas others who live on the estate just let the gangs get away with everything. Although Harry Brown is an elderly character he has a military background and therefore is very capable of catching the killer of his friend. During the film you see drug taking and sexual scenes. The ending of the film shows present day after Harry Brown has killed the killer. During the ending scene you see Harry Brown walking through the subway where is friend was murdered because the estate is now safe because the killer is dead. The film is set in Marks Gate, London. 

The characters involved in the gang are portrayed as violent and use very strong language. They are all shown wearing hoodies/jumpers because this is one of the conventions when portraying crime. The lighting used through out the whole film is very nature. This is to make the scenes look normal, as if they have not been set up. For example when you see the scene of the gang members beating a man in the middle of the estate, the lighting is very nature, just street lighting. The titles at the start of the film are very little and the main characters name 'Harry Brown' is also very small because it is showing that he is just an ordinary man. The first scene of the gang is filmed on a hand held camera, this puts the audience in the perspective of the youth. There is a shot when the police officers have just come down the estate stairs, in this shot you can see the rubbish on the floor, dirty walls and the car with no wheel trims. This shows that everything in the shot has been put there for a reason, nothing in the shot is there by accident. When the gang members are being questioned,  there is a specific shot showing the lawyer and one of the gang members with a very big gap between them, this is done to show the different status between them because of where they come from/background. Some of the members in the gang are real actors and others are real gang members who live in the estate, this is to show real life. At the very start Harry Brown is shown making tea and cleaning up, this is done to show ordinary life tasks.