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Snakes on the plane

Institutions

Snakes on a Plane is a 2006 American Comedy horror feature film directed by David R. Ellis and starring Samuel L. Jackson. It was released by New Line Cinema on August 18, 2006 in North America. The film was written by David Dalessandro, John Heffernan, and Sheldon Turner. The film follows the events of hundreds of snakes released on a passenger plane in an attempt to kill a trial witness. Released in the United States and United Kingdom on August 18, 2006, the film received generally good reviews with 69% of reviews positive and an average normalized score of 58%, according to the review aggregator websites Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, respectively. Despite the immense Internet buzz, the film's gross revenue did not live up to expectations, earning US$15.25 million in its opening weekend. The film grossed $62 million worldwide before its release on home video on January 2, 2007. The budget for this film was $33,000,000 and had a gross renvue of $62,022,014. Snakes on the plane has a running time of 105 minutes and was distributed by the New line cinema.





Audience

The audience of this movie was aimed at 15 + which means it is advisable to be over the age to watch this film as it contains language, a scene of sexuality and drug use, and intense sequences of terror and violence. The genre of this film is a thriller / Action. This film got a total of6 stars out of a possible 10. My personally opinion of this film is that it is extremely well thought of the plot is very unusual which makes you want to see it even more. The comments that were left for his film was rather negative “what we have here are very bad cgi snakes that neither look nor move like real snakes. Snakes are scary because they appear to be slimy, they crawl they slither. These snakes do nothing of the sort. they glide along like they would in a video game. They are cartoon snakes. i would go as far to say that even someone that had a major phobia against real snakes would not find these ones scary” Looking though the different comments they are mostly negative as the snakes look very unrealistic. Due to the Internet hype surrounding the film, industry analysts estimated the movie's opening box office to be between US$20 million and US$30 million. In its second weekend, the film fell to 6th place with $6.4 million, a 57.6% drop from its opening weekend revenue. However, by the end of its theatrical run, the film generated $62,022,014 worldwide, nearly double the budget. Snakes on a Plane had a DVD release on December 26, 2006 in Region 2; December 28, 2006 in Region 4; and January 2, 2007 in Region 1. The DVD features commentaries, deleted and extended scenes, several featurettes, Cobra Starship's music video, and trailers. The U.S. Blu-ray was released on September 29, 2009





Technology

Throughout the film there is an amazing source of technology used as there is different effect used throughout. These effects are used in different ways as they show many people being hurt, however the best source of technology used would be the snakes here was More than 450 snakes were used for filming to represent thirty different species of snakes some of these ankes where real but some where basic robotic snakes.


Thriller genre

Snakes on the plane is an ACTION / Thrillers .BY looking at this genre you can be very stereotypical as you would immediately think it is the more for men as it involves a lot of people being hurt and injured by accidents involving snakes however this I just my view.


Representation

In this film it seems to me that all the black males are very gangster, to me this immediately makes you think whether all black people are like this which is wrong. All the men seem to act hard and try to impress everyone which is not how black men are.

Mise en scene

On this film it is fairly obvious there is a lot of props as there is over 450 snakes used in the whole of this film which is a lot of creating. In this film my personally favourite camera angle would be when you notice the snake is crawling up the lady on the plane as you really feel for the lady as you can see all her expressions.