presentation script

Presentation Script

[Lights Dim Down]

[Projector Turns on]

Projector: The statement ‘The impact and emotional responses from Michael Winterbottoms Films ’ appears on screen.

Presenter: “The impact and emotional responses from Michael Winterbottoms Films’.

Presenter: These are the trailers of the films I will be discussing.

Projector: The trailer for The killer Inside Me appears on screen (Source 1)

Projector: The next trailer comes on screen, the trailer for 9 songs (Source 3)
Projector: The final trailer comes on screen, this is of A Mighty Heart (Source 2)

Presenter: Mark Kermode film critic describe the violence in film, The Killer Inside me as be being 'Horrible, Appalling, Drawn out, Retracted and Repugnant.' (Source 4) He also mentions how Simon Mayo found the film to be 'misogynistic' (Source 4) In the video we get the view of the BBFC, we are told that the BBFC rated the film '18 uncut' and that as far as there view on the impact of the film they feel that 'The scenes in question do no eroticise or endorse sexual assault or oppose credible harm risk to viewers 18 or over.' (Source 4). This is The full video review.

Projector: Plays Mark Kermode video review (Source 4)

Presenter: Mark Kermode in another review said 'What is impressive is that Winterbottom achieves this sense of utter revulsion' (Source 5) He then expands on that saying 'with visuals that are in fact no more explicit than the glamorised gore of many mainstream thrillers.' (Source 5)

Presenter: Michael Winterbottom gives his view on the reactions to the film The Killer Inside Me, in video talk with Paul Byrne.

Projector: Video of Michael Winterbottoms talk with Paul Byrne plays. (Source 6)

[A Michael Winterbottom impersonator walks in the room]

[He mentions quotes from the Video]

Actor: 'I wanted those scenes to be shocking, we were working on it for six months.' 'Its not more moral to show violence as being entertaining or exciting or acceptable, its more moral to show violence as being horrible.' (Source 6)