Nathan Allen's TV & Film Blog

Roles and responsibilities of a writer    A writer’s job is to write scripts or otherwise screen plays for tv shows and films. A writer will usually go  through  multiple versions of the same script but writers for films will have more time simply because the deadline is longer compared to a tv show like a soap.                                                                                                           Skills- what does a writer need to be good at....

 Battle Royale Synopsis   The Japanese government started the battle royale act to control the youth of the country.   The protagonist Shuya Nanahara finds his farther has committed suicide and struggles to adapt to this new reality of  his. The  other main protagonist finds and helps the teacher Kitano who has just been slashed with a knife by a student.   About a year later, unaware of the battle royale act class 3-B are taken to a remote island where it is revealed they are taking part in this year's battle royale by Kitano and the military who kills the student who injured him.   The first few hours are chaotic with multiple students Shuya and Noriko vow not to kill any of their friends the antagonists Mitsuko Souma and Kazuo Kiriyama go on to kill multiple students some also commit suicide while Shinji Mimura plots to hack the military so they can escape.   Shuya and Noriko meet another protagonist Shogo Kawada who doesn't want to kill t...

  Narrative Structure  The  Crazies 2010   Give two examples of events that cause later events in the film, but which occur before the film start.   The government engineering the virus sending it to be destroyed and then the plane crashing and infecting the water supply. This causes the outbreak which is seen in the film. Characters eventually find out how all of this happened throughout the film from the government official for example, but the viewers learn more through the satellite for example.       List two events from the 92-minute film that happen in a different time and space to the one we are shown.   The people who were deemed safe were torched by the government and later found by the main characters. Also, the government deciding to drop the bomb on the town because  no  one in the film knew this was going to happen maybe until the countdown.     Identify key plot point in the film that you associate with the ...