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Preliminary Exercise: Genre and Iconography

In this preliminary exercise I worked on individual actors who are "type-casted" as a certain role in many movies that they played in. The term type casted refers to an actor who plays a similar role in roles they are casted for. Somewhat like a character archetype. I choose Jackie Chan. He is widely known for being a strong well skilled fighter in his movies. The four most prominent I choose were karate kid, Rush hour, The spy next door, and the tuxedo. many of the movies that this celebrity stars in have similar themes like revenge or crime doesn't pay. Mise en Scene also plays a role in how his character was depicted and how it contributes to his role for instance, lighting and Setting. The lighting used is generally very warm to show exhaust from fighting or sweat. Settings such as warehouses and gang territory locations make sense because in his type-casted role he is usually the protagonists skilled fighter who comes to "save the day" or resolve the problem in the plot. The chart I created can be seen down below. 


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