Sunday 10 October 2010

Miss Wigleys dominant and alternative ideology

Slumdog millionaire

The story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Kaun Banega Crorepati?" But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show's questions. Each chapter of Jamal's increasingly layered story reveals where he learned the answers to the show's seemingly impossible quizzes. But one question remains a mystery: what is this young man with no apparent desire for riches really doing on the game show? When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out. At the heart of its storytelling lies the question of how anyone comes to know the things they know about life and love.

how this represents alternative ideology
this film presents alternative ideology because it represents a different ethnicity, in a positive and negative light. the protaganist is young and prehaps below working class. although it is a male he is not dominant ideology because he has a different ethnicity and he is young, who has come from the slums and not some where posh or middle class

Casino royale
James Bond goes on his first ever mission as a 00. Le Chiffre is a banker to the world's terrorists. He is participating in a poker game at Montenegro, where he must win back his money, in order to stay safe among the terrorist market. The boss of MI6, known simply as M sends Bond, along with Vesper Lynd to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. Bond, using help from Felix Leiter, Mathis and having Vesper pose as his wife, enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.

how this presents dominant ideology
this presents dominant ideology because it is a white male of high status who is possibly high class, in the film he is extremely well able bodied and is of middle age. all this presents dominant ideology

plot summarys form IDMb.com

1 comment:

  1. Good - you have started to discuss dominant and alternative ideology. Now consider how ethnic minorities are represented in Slumdog Millionaire - is this a positive or negative representation?

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