... as a beautiful background to the enthralling story and its colourful characters. Probably the one aspect that could make or break a film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's classical tale of a love-hate romance and civil war was the casting, specifically for the pivotal character of Scarlett O Hara, the beautiful, high-tempered and strong willed sixteen year old around which the story revolves. Selznick ... ...

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... conversation with her potential love interest at work. Within the family's home the only time any colour is shown to stand out is when the book containing the story of 'The Babadook' is first introduced, the book itself is completely red which immediately signifies the danger within it, a theme which reoccurs later in the film when Amelia see's the monster inside ... ...

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For film studies, the book defines genre as a category or classification of a group of movies in which the individual films share similar subject matter and similar ways of organizing the subject through narrative and stylistic ... anticipate the meaning of a particular convention or direction of certain narrative formulas. Giving a film a genre can be very daunting, as there are many different hybrid genres and subgenres, but the book focuses on six different groupings of films that are generally defined as genres: comedies, westerns, melodramas, musicals, horror films and crime films. In c...

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