Directors - Glenn Ficarra & John Requa
Writers - Glenn Ficarra & John Requa
Producer - Denise Di Novi
Music - Nick Urata
Cinematography - Xavier Grobet
Cast:
Nicky - Will Smith
Jess - Margot Robbie
Farhad - Adrian Martinez
Owens - Gerald McRaney
Garriga - Rodrigo Santoro
Focus is a 2015 directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. It fits in with the genres of comedy, crime and drama. It's main themes are Love, Trust and Betrayal. The production company is Dune Entertainment and the films budget was $50.1million. It made over double that in the box office, making $144million.
The story is about an extremely talented conman called Nicky, who takes in s girl called Jess and trains her to pick pocket and how to con others. They fall in love but Nicky's profession of lying and cheating his way through life doesn't fit well with love, so they break up. Then three years later, when Nicky is working for a billionaire race car owner, they meet again. Nicky tries to gain back her love while conning race car owners, selling them all the same car. Once he gains her love and about $27million from selling one car to many people, they try and run away together. But they are stopped in their tracks and held hostage and at gun point.
The cinematography within the film is very unique. As this film has a lot of conning and pick pocketing, the camera has close up of what to character are stealing and how it's done.
To go with the pick pocketing scenes, there is main non diagetic music over he top. This is to give off an exciting and up beat mood, showing that if they make one mistake it could all go wrong. The audience are hooked into how the camera shows the close ups of pick pocketing and the music add more to the excitement.
The film is set in New York City and Argentina. These are quite wealthy locations which shows that the character must be getting lots of money from pick pocketing. The characters also wear very smart and formal clothing which shows how wealthy they are.
There is one scene in the film where Nicky is showing Jess around their base of operations. As they walk through, there are shots of people counting out money, emptying wallets, scanning bank cards, lining up and counting all of the Jewlery. This shows he audience how big their business is and hints how much money they earn from having this job.
The amount of money they are earning is the audiences dream, and they crave that lifestyle.
Dan this feels like partly a review part analysis, are you sure which one you are trying to create? You correctly identify the genre and themes then do not build on this revelation by explaining anything about either genre or the themes. You state 'the film has unique cinematography' but do you tell us what that is? You are required to show your understanding of these topics by analysing the key concepts. C.C.C.E.O how many of these have you used?
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