Textual Analysis Of The Human Centipede

A trailer or preview is an advertisement or a commercial for a feature film that will be exploited in the future at a cinema. The term "trailer" comes from their having originally been shown at the end of a feature film screening. That practice did not last long, because patrons tended to leave the theaterr after the films ended, but the name has stuck. Trailers are now shown before the film begins.

The Human Centipede First Sequence is a 2010 Dutch horror film written and directed by Tom Six. The film tells the story of a German doctor who kidnaps three tourists and joins them surgically, mouth to anus, forming a "human centipede". It stars Dieter Laser as the villain, Dr. Heiter, with Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie, and Akihiro Kitamura as his victims. According to Six, the concept of the film arose from a joke he made with friends about punishing child molesters by stitching their mouths to the anus of a "fat truck driver." Six also stated that inspiration for the film came from Nazi medical experiments carried out during World War II, such as the actions of Josef Mengele at Auschwitz concentration camp.

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The Human Centipede film is very typical in the connotations within the props, location and actors the film uses.The props used are unlucky props such as Broken cars, this is how the actors fate and situations are predicted and decided. Usage of broken telephones are used as props. these are there to make sure that the characters are un able to escape the predicament that there in and also keep the viewers on edge with the characters. The Location that the Film is set in, is that of a quiet German neighborhood, next to a woodland drive through. The people used are cocaision females of American background, a man in he's 60's/70's, of a German background and a young Korean man.

Iconography within the trailer are things like hospital beds, drugging equipment, syringes and hospital clothing e.g overalls, face masks & gowns.

the camera shots used are mainly mid close ups, close ups. The camera tends to pan to the right very often and also from behind the character/actor to create a form of tension and scariness towards the viewer. The zoom in the trailer is used to portray the actors/characters expressions and feeling's through there ordeal. The cutting sequence within the trailer only cuts 8 times within the first 20 seconds which is very different for a horror film movie trailer as they tend to cut very quickly from the beginning of the film, were as here the quick cutting scenes gradually build up.

The preferred reading that the creators of this film trailer would like to be given and received, is that of the feeling of sickness and scariness. they would like to use all there skills of blood and gore not to chase away the target audience but to attract the target audience, which is a very different approach. the audience gratifications offered through this trailer are predominantly entertainment and some social interaction, the audience will be entertained by the story plot along with all the going on's within the film. The target audience would socially interact through talking about weather the film was good or not' what could have been better and why.

The different representations given are that of Occupation, Gender, and Nationality. The doctor/scientist is German and plays the evil, sadistic role with is common in many pieces of media, with the villain being foreign. The 2 girls are American and are the victims who are there as innocent tourists. this gives the representation of females being meek and easy to manipulate. this has been a common occurrence in many horror film's over the years and has been one of the many reasons for the up rise in horror as a genre it self.

the pace of the shots are very slow & sturdy building up to a more quicker and shaky pace to signify the drama and the pace of what's going on within the film at the time. the continuity editing is very little as it's trying to not do that and is doing what is called jump cutting. there is also a lot of cross dissolve in which scenes are mixed together to show the plot and what is also going on. there are also a lot of fade out transitions used to show how the story is evolving and what's going on next.

the genre is Horror and the Sub Genre is Science slash sci-fi, due to the fact that it toys with the human body and things that have never ever been thought of or attempted in the world we live in today.