How does your media product represent social groups

Sam Daniels

Definition - Representation

• The description or portrayal of someone or something in a particular way or as being of a certain nature.

The antagonist of ‘Repressed Memories’Antagonist of Robin Hood – The

‘Sheriff of Nottingham’

Similarities

• Both characters have rather rich backgrounds. You can see this in their costumes. The Sheriff of Nottingham has a black cloak and what appears to be gold plated armour. The antagonist in repressed memories has a very fancy leather tabard and a hand woven luxurious belt from the highly respected monks. These are both common stereotypes of rich people (in this era anyway,) and shows what people would portray as a rich 16th century man.

• Another similarity would be that their ‘rivals’ or enemies are both poor. This means that their rivals have distinct differences: the rich versus the poor, and the poor escaping.

Differences

• One difference would be that the Sheriff gets other men to kill his rivals, however, the antagonist in Repressed Memories would rather get the glory himself, and deal with his own rivals, which means you could say he is braver than the Sheriff. I believe that my antagonist contradicts the stereotype that rich important people get others to do the job, as my antagonist wants to deal with it himself, despite leading a massive army. Some films where the rich male gets others to do their grievous jobs would be Gladiator & Robin Hood.

• Another difference would be that the Sheriff’s motives were for a woman’s love, however Alberto's motives remain hidden in the opening sequence, which makes him much more mysterious, as the motives may be much more deeper.

• For both films, the antagonist dies in the hands of the protagonist. This follows the Hollywood ideology that good always conquers evil, as many viewers do not like the evil winning.

I picked all males (for the opening sequence) because females in that era were not even allowed to fight, therefore I believe if I did add a female into the midst people may not believe it to be an accurate represenatation of the 16th century.