5 Movies That Portray Theme Of Manhood

BRAVEHEART - This film contains all of the amenities that men look for in a movie which is why i feel like it relates to our subject manner of 'Manhood'. A significant quote that sums this up is “I know you can fight. But it’s our wits that make us men.” which show the courage and also pride of the male who said this. As well as supporting the broad theme of Manhood, it also linking to one of the topics within Manhood which is war. Even though it is not typical image of war such as films about World War 2 , it is about battle which is normally associated with men as it  contains such emotions such as pride which again is to do with Manhood. We looked at certain parts of this film to give us ideas on how we could portray the theme of war and any creative ways to do this, even though our resources were limited we tried to find small details such as camera shots to see how we could make certain scene more effective. 

BOYZ N DA HOOD - This film showed the theme manhood through gangs, conflict and violence. An element that we did not want to use however through small aspects of the film we thought of ways to reflect manhood in just a different way. While watching the film we saw a brotherhood being portrayed through the characters , we saw how their culture and where the from kept them together while in certain cases also created conflict between other characters. We liked the idea of Brotherhood and therefore thought of including brothers in our narrative, however instead of following typical conventions such as gangs we began to think of a much more sentimental approach. 

BABY BOY - Quite similar to 'Boys N Da Hood' this film contained quite alot of gangs and violence, however i noticed it was more about him becoming a man and the trials and tribulations he went through to achieve this, unlike Boyz N Da Hood there was a much more sentimental message being portrayed through the main character, something very similar to what we wanted to achieve. We noticed that even though there may be violence that doesn't limit us to being able to convert subventions and take a much softer approach. In Baby Boy we liked how his physical appearance contradicted his personality and even though he may of looked like a man , he did not however act like one, this was a very good point that we began to look at in more detail and try and incorporate into our narrative. 

JUNO- Even though the theme manhood isn't very prominent in Juno, we looked at one particular character in detail, that being 'Paul bleakly'. He related to one of the theme of Losing virginity which also relates to Manhood and even more importantly becoming a man having to take huge responsibilities at such a young age. It was also useful to watch as Rites of passages from both character was clearly being portrayed. Another important feature was that of Paul Bleakly's physique he was skinny and looked what others may interpret as weak however he was having to face responsibilities of a man. This was quite influential to us as we wanted to subvert this typical convention of the stronger men being the masculine ones and found Juno as a very helpful resource in ways we could achieve this.