My left foot (1980s)

My left foot: 1980's

-Won two Oscars- one male one female supporting role

- Christie Brown

- Biographical picture

- verbal, visual, non verbal, oral language usage

Stereotypes in the movies:

• Supper cripple
• Burden to his mother
• Pitiable and pathetic
• Laughable
• Sinister and evil
• As non-sexual
• As atmosphere
• Being unable to do daily things

-VISUAL - Opening sequence contains Christie Brown doing day to day activities with his 'left foot'.

- NON - VERBAL - There is a flashback.... where he is represented to be isolated, disenfranchised, treated differently from his siblings, by their father.... and blamed for things that do not even consider him.

- VERBAL - He is spoken down to, in an undermining tone: ' d for dunce'

- He is also treated like he is an incapable mentally.... when he is very intelligence 'super cripple'.

The Mum is secretly saving up for her son's wheelchair.... he gets carried when he needs to go to places.

- When Christie learns to write with the chalk his father is proud of him "he is a Brown".

VERBAL - The priest thinks that he is not mentally ready to go to Church.... making him upset.

The expressions are masked and therefore his emotions are unclear.

- VERBAL - When his Mother shouts at him for not going to bed, because they don't have enough money to pay for the coal, he comes up with a plan to get coal.... loosen a part of the coal truck.... 'super cripple' he is intelligent, the Mother gets angry at him for his actions.

He is a fantastic artist.... creates a valentines card for the girl who he likes, but she gives it back when she finds out who it is from.... she is embarrassed and reject him.... her friends laugh at Christie's card.

- The girl sees him as being 'non sexual' that may be why she does not want to be with him.

- Her daughter has to get married quickly because she is pregnant and her father gets angry and ask her "couldn't keep your knicker on" they have an argument and she runs upstair to christie and christie realise what going on and stamps his feet, making his father leave and his sister saying goodbye and telling him "make sure you look after ma" everything that happens everyone react to him (father leaving, coal)