Summary
This is the second movie of my chronological marvel marathon. It’s about this soldier who thinks that she works for a secret service of warriors that identify with the race of kree. After getting abducted and crashing into earth, she realizes that she grew up in earth and had a whole life before her journeys into space.
Film Analysis
| Film Title |
Captain Marvel |
| Year | 2019 |
| Director |
Anna Boden/ Ryan Fleck |
| Country |
USA |
| Genre | Action/ Adventure/ Sci fi |
| If you could work on this film (change it), what would you change and why? | I would definitely change the leading role because I think the film wouldn’t get as much hate or backlash if it weren’t for the things she has said after and during the film. |
| TOPIC | NOTES |
| 1. Who is the protagonist? | Captain Marvel |
| 2. Who is the antagonist? | Yon-Rogg |
| 3. What is the conflict? | Who gets to keep the tessaract |
| 4. What is the theme or central, unifying concept? (summarize in one or two words) | stick to your roots |
| 5. How is the story told (linear, non-linear, with flashbacks, flash-forwards, at regular intervals) | Flashbacks |
| 6. What “happens” in the plot (Brief description)? | Captain Marvel becomes one of the greatest superheroes during a war against the kree and the skrull |
| 7. How does the film influence particular reactions on the part of viewers (sound, editing, characterization, camera movement, etc.)? Why does the film encourage such reactions? |
Well the characterization from one of the characters (Nick Fury) is a big thing about this movie. It shows the audience how he lost vision in his eye and how earth made encounters with aliens. |
| 8. Is the setting realistic or stylized? What atmosphere does the setting suggest? Do particular objects or settings serve symbolic functions? | it’s a little of both, there’s lots of alien based or marvel based things in the setting but it is mostly on earth with all the backgrounds being mostly realistic. |
| 9. How are the characters costumed and made-up? What does their clothing or makeup reveal about their social standing, ethnicity, nationality, gender, or age? How do costume and makeup convey character? | Well the people wearing green leather body suits are kree, people with green faces are skrull, shield agents are wearing suits except for Fury, captain marvel is wearing a kree uniform but different colors |
| 10. How does the lighting design shape our perception of character, space, or mood? | There’s a lot of scenes that are placed just outside and it definitely helps pull us into big action scenes |
| 11. How do camera angles and camera movements shape our view of characters or spaces? What do you see cinematically? | I didn’t find much good camera technique it was pretty basic and used a bunch of wide shots about 90% of the time |
| 12. What is the music’s purpose in the film? How does it direct our attention within the image? How does it shape our interpretation of the image? What stands out about the music? | honestly there is barely any music in this film and the music that is already there is just generic action music sound that doesn’t add to the film at all |
| 13. How might industrial, social, and economic factors have influenced the film? Describe how this film influences or connects to a culture? | it doesn’t connect to any kind of culture |
| 14. Give an example of what a film critic had to say about this film. Use credible sources and cite sources.Example: “The Shawshank Redemption Movie Review (1994) | Roger Ebert.” All Content. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 June 2015. | “the filmmakers haven’t been trapped by a god-like superhero – until now. Meet Captain Marvel.” (2019)|Reelviews, James Berardinelli march 6th, 2019 |
| 15. Select one scene no longer than 5 minutes that represents well the whole film and shows relevant cinematic elements. Write a one-sentence description of the scene and record the time of the scene.Example: from 1:05:00 to 1:10:00.
Explain why you chose this scene. |
01:40:50-01:43:43
I chose this because it shows how over powered she is and why it makes this film just subpar |
| 16. In the selected scene: write a sentence for each of the elements below to justify why this scene best represents the film: | |
| a. Screenwriting: | ronin got scared which was humorous |
| b. Sound Design: | lots of space noises which fits very well |
| c. Camera Movements/Angles: | not much of that just a bunch of cgi |
| d. Light Setup: | just cgi |
| e. Soundtrack/Score: | no music in this scene |
| 18. What’s the socio-cultural context of this film? | The only culture I saw in this film was an open Blockbuster |
This worksheet was developed with ideas from many IB Film teachers, thus should remain in the Creative Commons