LUPIN (P2)
LUPIN
- Diversity- main character is a black male
- Outfit has classy trench coat with tracksuit- shows that he can be sophisticated whilst also casual
- Looking at the camera which shows power
- Set in the Louvre
Paris
- High fashion and shopping
- Pastries such as croissants and pain au chocolat
- Macarons, Baguettes
- City of love
- Designer shops
- Poverty- class system
- Jazz
- Wine
- Famous paintings such as Mona Lisa
- Expensive
- Architecture- louvre, Eiffel tower
- Crime
- Racism
- Amelie
- Rats
- Tourism
Media context of French films
Amelie
- 2001
- Quirky
- Story about love and happiness
- Means 'hatred' in French
- Day in the life of 3 boys from a poor Paris immigrant neighborhood
- Face racism
- About crime and revenge
- Diverse neighborhoods
- Violence and pressure
- Very stereotypical view of Paris
- More recent than Lupin
Lupin was out in COVID where a lot of people couldn't travel, so it gives an insight into Parisian life.
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Assane Diop
Hubert
Babaca Diop
Omar Sy (Assane Diop)
Omar Sy is a French actor who has featured in many films and series including X men, Lupin, Jurassic World and voice actor for the French dubbed version of Soul. he won the Cesar award for the best actor in 'The Intouchables' and was the first black person to win this. Netflix approached Omar with the proposal of building a series around him on a subject of his choice. He chose Lupin as he believed the character was the French equivalent of James Bond.
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THE FRENCH EMPIRE
The French colonial empire comprised the overseas colonies that came under French rule from the 16th century onward
Theorist- Paul Gilroy (Ethnicity and post-colonialism)
- Post-colonialism- the world after the colonies have gone
- Talks about the scattering of African culture after the colonies (African diaspora)
- Slave trade led to African culture being scattered over the world due to them being transported and sold- transatlantic culture
- Britain and France have not yet come to terms with the fact that they are sulking empires- post-colonial melancholia
- 'Us and them' approach to the world. "You seen me but you didn't really look". " Everyone's on top while we're on the bottom"
- Inbuilt white superiority in western culture
Paul Gilroy in long form TV drama
Lupin:
Babakar Diop Assane Diop Raoul Diop
- "Is it true that black people cant swim?"
- The black janitor goes unnoticed
- Assumptions of Babakar stealing the necklace from the Pellegrini
- When Babakar goes to help the Pellegrini's with their car, one of them locks the car door
- Assane is told the auctioneer didn't expect 'someone like him' to purchase the necklace
10 marker given at end of paper 2 is 'Evaluate the usefulness of this theory':
- Gilroy's theory is helpful in Lupin, maybe 8/10
Stranger Things:
Erica Sinclair Lucas Sinclair Calvin Powell
- Lucas referred to by his friends as 'midnight'
- The police officer is black and has a higher paid job than most white people in Hawkins
10 marker given at end of paper 2 is 'Evaluate the usefulness of this theory':
- Lucas doesn't really fit Gilroy's theory as he is just one of the boys and isn't treated differently
- Lucas referred to as 'midnight' by the boys, however each boy in the group gets bullied (e.g Mike being called frog-face), so it isn't that much of discrimination
- Therefore, Gilroy's theory could be seen as not very useful and possibly 3/10 in Stranger Things
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LUPIN EPISODE 1
- First shot is an establishing shot of the louvre with non-diegetic sound playing in the background (creates thriller/mystery/crime vibe)
- Security guard watching cleaners through CCTV- zoom in on main characters
- 'Us and them' idea established through the zoom of the cleaners looking at necklace
- When the 'lupin' title comes on the screen, each letter makes the sound of prison doors slamming- positioning this as a crime drama. The title is also an orange colour which could represent orange prison jumpsuits.
- We don't know anything about Assane until around 20 minutes in- we as the audience know about as much as the characters. At first, it is hinted that he is poor which the viewers assume, however we later find out that he has a lot of money.
- Assane is in sync with hip-hop culture- up tempo tracks playing and he is walking in sync with the music. This shows that he can be many different people.
- Camera tracks Assane as he walks through the economically deprived neighborhood
- Assane pretends he has no money and gives it away to his ex wife. He plays a smart game and makes them go to the louvre to fit his plan.
- Rudy (stupid, classic getaway driver that steals Lamborghini instead of a car that would go unnoticed), Vincent (rat-like), Kevin (muscly guy with vest that Assane fights easily).
- This shows that Assane is strong and capable, and is underestimated ("You seen me but you didn't really look"). Strongest character in the show. "Everyone's on top while we're on the bottom".
- First flashback about 10 minutes in to 1995.
- In the flashback, Babakar is having a talk with Assane and stops him to spell out 'presumptuous'. This shows that he is caring and that he drives Assane on to reach far. Babakar looks at Assanne in pride and love, as well as playful testing. "Bravo my boy" shows that Babakar is proud of his son.
- Babakar knocks on Anne Pellegrini's window in order to help her. The camera shot is a view through his eyes to see what it is like for him. Anne doesn't realise that it is Babakar, and locks the door- stereotype of crime for black people in Paris. There is an insert of the close up on the car door lock to show how worried Anna Pellegrini is.
- Babakar is portrayed as selfless as he helps Anne in the pouring rain- doesn't ask for an umbrella, coat, etc. He fixes the car with ease, showing he may be in the wrong job.
- However, Anne invited Babakar into the car once she realises who he is.
- It is 36 mins into the episode when we see Assane being himself. There is non-diegetic dialogue where people talk about Arsane Lupin and how nobody knows who he is.
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Lupin was released in January 2021 during the global pandemic when demand for home entertainment was high. the crime-thriller genre of the show offered escapism which was a distraction from the monotony of lockdown.
The drama's success in English-speaking countries, such as the USA, was partly due to it being immediately available in a dubbed version which would automatically play in English if the audience member was detected to be in an English-speaking country.
Bela Bejaria, head of global TV at Netflix, suggests viewing of non-English language programs by Netflix's American subscribers increased by 67% between 2019 and 2021.
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Q3 (Past Question):
'Long-form TV dramas lack originality; no matter which country they're made in, they all use intertextuality in the same way.' How far do you agree with this statement?
(Stranger Things- America Lupin- France)
In your answer you must:
- Consider the contexts in which long form television dramas are produced and consumed (watched)
- Explain how media contexts may have influenced the use of intertextuality in the set episodes (Season 1, chapter 1) (The Vanishing of Will Byers) of the two long form TV dramas you have studied (Stranger Things, Lupin)
- Refer to relevant academic ideas (theorists) and arguments
- Make judgements and reach conclusions about reasons for similarities or differences in the use of intertextuality between the two episodes
Plan:
- Paul Gilroy's ethnicity and post-colonialism theory
The black janitor goes unnoticed
Assumptions of Babakar stealing the necklace from the Pellegrini
When Babakar goes to help the Pellegrini's with their car, one of them locks the car door
Assane is told the auctioneer didn't expect 'someone like him' to purchase the necklace
Lucas referred to by his friends as 'midnight'
The police officer is black and has a higher paid job than most white people in Hawkins
- Claude Levi-Strauss' structuralism theory
Binary opposition between black and white characters
Binary opposition between rich and poor
- Tsvetan Todorov's narratology theory
Equilibrium when necklace is purchased
- Intertextuality of Arsene Lupin
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GENDER AND SEXUALITY
Representation- (re)presentation
Assane Diop
- Demonstrates stereotypically male characteristics such as strength, charismatic, charming, bashing friends, eye contact, confidence.
- However also presents less masculine characteristics such as being apologetic, giving compliments, sensitive.
- He is shown in the flashback whilst he was a teen (14), and then in modern day. This shows how he develops throughout life.
Juliette Pelligrini
- Demonstrates stereotypically female characteristics such as being stylish,
- The camera tracks her down the stairs at the auction so the audience can really observe her
- Flirtatious facial expressions as she walks down the stairs
- In the flashback pool scene, Juliette is presented in a sexual way
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GENDER NORMS
12 YEAR OLD BOY-
Gaming, football
17 YEAR OLD GIRL-
Makeup, hair, social media, shopping, rebellion
This is presented in Lupin through the flashback of Juliette Pelligrini
Rebellion is shown through smoking
MIDDLE AGED MAN-
Work, coffee, married
MIDDLE AGED WOMAN-
Work, married, wine
OLDER WOMAN IN 60S-
Modesty
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FRENCH REVOLUTION
Her name is associated with the decline in the moral authority of the French monarchy in the closing years of the ancien régime, though her courtly extravagance was but a minor cause of the financial disorders of the French state in that period. Her rejection of reform provoked unrest, and her policy of court resistance to the progress of the French Revolution finally led to the overthrow of the monarchy in August 1792.
After France declared war on Austria in April 1792, Marie-Antoinette’s continuing intrigues with the Austrians further enraged the French. Popular hatred of the queen provided impetus for the storming of the Tuileries Palace and the overthrow of the monarchy on August 10, 1792.
Marie-Antoinette spent the remainder of her life in Parisian prisons. The princess de Lamballe, who remained loyal to the queen throughout the Revolution, was imprisoned along with her. Lamballe refused to take an oath against the monarchy, and on September 3, 1792, she was delivered to the hands of a Parisian mob; they cut off her head and paraded it on a pike outside Marie-Antoinette’s windows.
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