ME AND MY MOVIES - COMEDY

Luke Finlay

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The Hangover

Director – Todd Phillips Year of Production – 2009 Brief Synopsis – Four friends all go on a stag do to Las

Vegas, two days before the wedding. Their drinks end up getting spiked and wake up in a trashed hotel room not remembering anything from the night before. They then realise one of the group (the groom to be) goes missing a day before the wedding. When they go out to look for him they try and re trace their steps by looking through possessions they have on them. They soon realised they caused a lot more damage than they realised. With a day before the wedding they still can’t find the groom and are really panicking. Eventually they find him on the roof of the hotel and get him back to the wedding just in time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqCr8Av6CW0

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American Pie

Directors - Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz Year of Production – 1999 Brief Synopsis – A group of average college students who aren’t

very lucky on the girl front all plan to lose their virginity by the time they graduate and realise the night of the prom is probably the best way of doing that. This causes the group to all find dates with some awkward and hilarious experiences on the way that could damage their reputation and therefore finding it difficult to find a girl to take to the prom. However these experiences and being friendly with a popular guy in the school help them all find a girl to take to the prom. In the end they all succeed in their mission and all lose their virginity on the night of the prom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AUvtLZQyDE

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Anchorman Director – Adam Mckay Year of Production – 2004 Brief Synopsis – Set in the 1970’s, Ron Burgundy is a famous regional

anchorman along with his colleagues. Suddenly the news company hire a female anchor which during the 1970’s was unheard of and all the news anchors were outraged. Then the anchor woman (veronica) comes in on the first day and all the team fancy her and try to seduce her and fail. Eventually, after many attempts, she agrees to go on a date with Ron and ends up sleeping with him. They agree to keep their relationship a secret until Ron tells everyone in work and on air. One day when Ron doesn't turn up for work, Veronica fills in for him and becomes a success and starts to get more air time which Ron gets jealous over. Due to the jealousy the relationship ends but now they are co-anchors. There is a lot of tension between the two which causes Ron to say something he shouldn’t live on air and he gets fired for it. Now Ron has become jobless and an alcoholic whilst Veronica is a famous news anchor but all the men at work hate her. A huge news story comes up which gets a lot of news teams interested and the men get revenge on Veronica for getting Ron fired. The manager can’t find Veronica and re calls Ron. Ron then saves Veronica and covers the story and he and Veronica start a relationship again and end up becoming world news anchors.

Reception theory

Reception theory is a theory introduced by Stuart Hall in 1973. He stated that people are part of certain social groups due to things they see in the media.

For example if there was a football match on tv the next day there will be a group of people talking about the events of the match. In the same way if there was a major event in a soap a different social group will talk about that event.