Weekend Vs Pride 

Weekend is a film directed Andrew Heigh. The genre is Drama and romance. It is a drama because it heavily relies on realistic character and story development and it’s a romance because the plot revolves around the love between the two protagonists. The themes of the film are sexuality, acceptance, relationships and friendship. It involves sexuality and acceptance because The protagonist, Russel, wants to come out as gay publicly but he is scared of what people would think of him. Relationship and friendship are involved throughout the film between the two protagonists. The film is about after a drunken night with his straight friends, Russel heads out to a gay bar and picks up Glen and what is expected to be a one night stand turns in to a something else. something special. Pride is a film directed by Matthew Warchus. He also directed Sampatico. The genre of film is comedy and period drama. It is a comedy because it uses humour as a driving force to develop the characters and story. It is a period drama because it uses realistic development in story and characters and it is set in the past in the 1980's. The themes of the film is acceptance, fighting back, cooperation and philanthropy. It involves acceptance because through out the film the protagonist group want to be accepted by the public and that is why they have so many marches and parades. Fighting back is a theme because right from the beginning. One of the protagonists Mark has a banner across his window saying  "Thatcher out". They are constantly fighting against the stereotypes they are given.  Cooperation is involved when the gays join the miners in their fight for the strike and philanthropy is a theme because the protagonists donate and help the miners out. the film is about a group of gay activists join the fight with the miners during their lengthy strike in the summer of 1984.  

The film Pride seemed to feel much more like a documentary and felt much more third person then the weekend. This I believe is because that is a period drama and the director wanted to show the story of this group gay activists in the 1980s. I believe this is also due to the fact that the film pride had a lot more settings, locations. It was set in London. In joes house, gethins house, the small welsh town. Pride also had a lot of characters and viewed each on of them equally. Weekend felt as though it was much more first person. It viewed the characters as though we were with them. It had a very small cast meaning the film can view these characters in a huge amount of depth. The amount of locations in the weekend was very small. This also is another reason why the film is first person because it doesn’t have to spend so much time with stablishing shots. I conclude that the film Pride has a documentary feel to it because it is a period drama and the director wanted to include everything to do with the event. This is also down to the cinematography. The cinematography in Pride was directed by Tat Radcliffe he also did the cinematography for the film 71. The cinematography was on sticks and had no hand held camera. The weekend cinematography was directed by Urszula Pontikos. She also directed the cinematography in lilting. It is hand held in The weekend therefore giving it a first person feel.