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The Subordinate Strange "Savage" versus the Superior Success


So in this respect let us analyse the context of film and ideology. "Film is a construction against the background of the culture, experience, and knowledge of both the communicator (example director) and subject (viewer), places it within the realm of ideology. Our culture, experience and knowledge underlie our view of life, of reality and of humanity and cannot be separated from the existential and political beliefs and orientations. In this sense every film can be viewed as an ideological construct." As a result both the communicator and viewer attach their own ideology to the film (page 224, media studies, volume 2).
             The World of The Lost World.
             The film shows a band of explorers leaving the comforts of their own "civilised" world for various individual reasons to travel to a prehistoric world of hostile beauty, suspended in time and space, and teaming with "lost civilisations" and "terrifying creatures" (V.O during the opening credits of season 1). The west is (namely 19th century London) is juxtaposed with the new "strange" and "hostile" world. The cast of explorers include Professor George Challenger- the visionary and scientist, Lord John Roxton- the hunter and adventurer, Marguerite Krux- the heiress and expeditions financial benefactor, Ned Malon- the American reporter looking for the "story of a lifetime"/century and Doctor Arthur Summerlee- Professor Challenger's sceptic and fellow scientist. The explorers are "befriended by an untamed beauty" (V.O. of during the opening credits of season 1) Veronica Layton. The two women characters where, however, not present in the original story. Could their contemporary involvement be a sign of the changing mood of the times? About to go into its fourth season the film's subsequent show is obviously appealing to a large number of people and the analysis of the appeal and implications of the show's message need to be considered.


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