Script on US and Uk Film Industry

Script on US and UK Film Industry

Throughout the time of film America and British films have had there differences, American films have always been profitable then the BFI. The big six are a big part of why American film industry is so successful. The use of horizontal intergration allows them to advertise to a bigger audience because they have ownership of their own distribution companies and productions.

School for Scoulders is a remake of the British film, which later on turned into an American film. The British film was made in 1960 and directed by Robert Hamer.

Its genre is comedy and about a man who goes to a school for lifemanship skills and ends up meeting a women and tries to get with her but ends up fighting with this other man who also wants her. The school is supposed to teach him life goals about personalities and looks. The comedy in the British film is very much easily thought about, like tripping on a banana skin comedy, which back in those days the audiences, loved.

In the American remake which was a 47 year gap between films so when watching the 2006 remake it was very much different. Firstly using different ethnical cultures, some characters were black and some were white. However in the 60 film it was somewhat wrong If a black person was in a British Film.

However what did stay same was the storyline of playing tennis, talking to girls and helping friends out also two men fighting over a woman. Also uses of the same name for example Mr Potter. The comedy of it was much more modern and well thought out and witty, the comedy were things like taking the mick out of someone and just modern ‘banter’ that men would have with each other. Use of violence and guns to try and win the girl over however in the 6o film they had a game of tennis to try and impress the women.

Also in the American one they used well -­‐ known actors/actresses because they know now in society people go see a film because of the actors/actresses. A big advantage on the American remake was that they and big distributions Dimensions films. For the British film they had Pathe and Warner Bros. When the American remake come out the box office made ¢23,497,685 which is 10x better then the British which only made 30,000.