Narrative:
Equilibrium: Very short like several other films. Alex at school.
Disruption: His uncle dies and he is recruited by Alan Blunt from MI6 who was his uncles boss to find out a bit more about Darrius Sayle, billionaire whom they find suspicious.
Restoration: Mainly Alex’s experience at Sayle’s Enterprises finding out what he is up too. This is most of the film and conatisn action scenes such as hism Alex manages to destroy the button that was going to activate all of the Stormbreakers and kill all of the pupils.
There are many action scenes with martial arts like this one to attract audience’s attention and to make them feel engaged in the film. Music is fast paced in this clip, along with enhanced sounds of the rope whipping the men to make a stronger atmosphere. Other themes addressed are teamwork, family, and friendship which underlie several action-adventure films. He uses his zit cream to break a massive water tank in which he is trapped with a deadly jellyfish.
Iconography:
GADGETS: Yo-yo - super nylon cord, Bag - parachute, Zit Cream - works its way through metal. Call-Up game - PDA scanner and transmitter, Pank station game - bug finder, Green Screen - smoke bomb, Fountain pen - sodium pentothal ink that allows someone to do exactly what you say. Also, the start of the film starts with an explosion and there is chases throughout the film connoting it is an action adventure film.
Guns used a lot during the film, and people are often dressed in black clothes (secret identity. The actual Stormbreaker uses special effects and advanced technology that can interest the audience and is part of action-adventure films.
Characters –
Hero: Alex - young teenage boy,not conventional hero but now there are more action-adventure films with young protagonists. He is a normal schoolboy, an orphan who lives with housekeeper and friend Jack Starbright.
Villain: Darrius Sayle, owner of Sayle enterprise. He was bullied as a young boy and called Darrius Smells by the boy who grew up to be the prime minister. Sayle has his own helpers, Mrs Vole and Mr Grin who help him to try and kill Alex once they find out he knows about the virus.
Donor: Smithers. He gives Alex the gadgets that help him on his mission.
Setting:
This scene is in scrap yard which could be dangerous as hardly any people go there. Also all of the used carsAlex nearly dies from being in a car and nearly being crushed. One part of the film is in a mine which also connotes danger. The city is vaguely shown but still plays a role more towards the end when Alex breaks into the Science Museum. High offices are used as the secret headquarters of MI6 . At the start when his uncle dies, the setting is an empty road, connoting isolation.
