Tuesday, 31 March 2009

Similarities and differences in TCM 1974 and TCM 2003

Similarities
  • Both films are slasher
  • Same genre codes, such as the girl screaming
  • Use the chainsaw to present a phallic object
  • A psycho killer- from a family of cannibals
  • Have group of friends- which get lost...
  • SEX= death theory
  • Killer has a mask

Differences
  • Made in different eras- therefore their target audience expectations are different
  • The new one is not censored
  • The ending is very different
  • The family members-younger wants to save the friends
  • 2003 has a women who is the hitchhiker, which is unlike the 1974 man being the hitchhiker
  • 2003 women shots herself 1974 man cuts himself

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