Task 2. How does your product represent particular social groups?

1). My film is about a suicide bomber, who has mental health problems and who isn’t physically right in the head, he decides to create his own bomb which will lead to his death. Other films that feature terrorists are vantage point and The Baader Meinhof komplex and Arlington road. These films all feature terrorists, Arlington road is about a Widowed when his FBI agent wife is killed in an FBI anti-terrorist operation gone wrong, a college professor becomes increasingly obsessed with the culture and sub-society of these dangerous groups. The Baader Meinhof complex is about aims is to create a more human society but by employing inhuman means they not only spread terror and bloodshed, they also lose their own humanity & Vantage point is about President Ashton (William Hurt) is attending a global war on terror summit in Spain. Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) are two of the Secret Service agents assigned to protect him. This is what happens in my film, it is about a suicide bomber of whom have ocd/mental problems, he has an idea to create his own bomb and go through a shopping centre with it placed inside a teddy bear, and the whole film builds up by him making the bomb.
Steotypically, terrorists are known to be Muslims, therefore in our film we decided to concentrate on the Central European concept of a terrorist, it would be obvious to have a Muslim terrorist in our film, therefore to create more tension and suspense we decided to use a different nationality. This links in to the Spanish terrorist organization ETA, as its not stereotypically a nationality for terrorists. This is how we are similar as we haven’t used the typical image of a terrorist.


2). Terrorists are patrayed in newspapers as mostly always Muslims, the first thing I typed in on the internet was what terrorists are? And the first few things that came up were all included in Islamic terrorists. Therefore we strongly felt to be as different as we could about our actor, and strongly believed in him not being Muslim. We also felt that our actor should be dressed like a terrorist; we dressed him in a hat, which is shown to be seen as suspicious, however at the same time something that wouldn’t be recognizable to be a terrorist. We also made him dress very ordinary so that people would think he is a normal person walking through a town.