Captain Fantastic

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Captain Fantastic revision resource
George Suttle
Mind Map by George Suttle, updated more than 1 year ago
George Suttle
Created by George Suttle almost 6 years ago
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Captain Fantastic
  1. Left wing ideology
    1. Shared responsibility
      1. Scene of butchering the deer in montage like style
        1. Significance of Ben passing daughter the rope that the deer is on, then girl hands sister knife
          1. Jump cut to 'watering schedule' shows everything is done as equally as possible
        2. Anti-capitalism
          1. Do not celebrate mainstream holidays
            1. Celebrate Noam Chomsky day
              1. Philosopher and political activist
            2. Stealing from the shopping market shows they're against the social capitalistic constructs
          2. Identification
            1. Increased in scenes involving hallucinations of Ben's wife
              1. Character-audience relationship
              2. Dual perspective of life
                1. Ben
                  1. lives off the surroundings (anti-capitalist)
                    1. Opening scene when they kill and prepare a deer to eat, could be seen as very dangerous for the audience
                    2. Fails to conform to the rules set buy society
                      1. Shown when he shop lifts from the supermarket with his kids
                      2. Suffers loss-wants to move on
                        1. Shown when he breaks the news to his children in a blunt and shocking way, it does not interfere with their routine the day later
                      3. Jack
                        1. Lives the archetypal middle-upper classed lifestyle
                          1. Lives in a massive house which is shown to be a selfish display of wealth when compared with Ben's house
                          2. Conforms to social norms
                            1. Sits in his daughters funeral at the front, wearing appropriate clothing unlike Ben.
                            2. Suffers loss-wants to grieve
                              1. He wants his daughter to have a standard funeral as a send off however Ben wants her to be celebrated by those who loved her
                          3. Mise-en-Scene
                            1. Symbolism of hair with transition and change of identity
                              1. Costume: outdated old clothes suggest they're out of touch with society and living in the past
                                1. Irony in daughter going into A&E being in an artificial environment as a last resort to save her life. Ben is Anti-establishment and institution.
                                2. Editing
                                  1. Bo becoming a man at the beginning in this rite of passage, slow moving camera paired with faster cuts
                                    1. Conforms to continuity editing from start to finish
                                      1. 'related shots paired together from the same clip puts the audience attention onto something specific, for example the deer at the beginning.
                                        1. Bens hallucinations show editing techniques used:
                                          1. Visual Softness, choral music, lighting effects showing her appear, and fade away.
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