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Snakes on the plane
Institutions
Snakes on a Plane is a 2006 American Comedy horror feature film directed by
David R. Ellis and starring Samuel L. Jackson. It was released by New Line
Cinema on August 18, 2006 in North America. The film was written by David
Dalessandro, John Heffernan, and Sheldon Turner. The film follows the events of
hundreds of snakes released on a passenger plane in an attempt to kill a trial
witness. Released in the United States and United Kingdom on August 18, 2006,
the film received generally good reviews with 69% of reviews positive and an
average normalized score of 58%, according to the review aggregator websites
Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, respectively. Despite the immense Internet
buzz, the film's gross revenue did not live up to expectations, earning US$15.25
million in its opening weekend. The film grossed $62
million worldwide before its release on home video on
January 2, 2007. The budget for this film was
$33,000,000 and had a gross renvue of $62,022,014.
Snakes on the plane has a running time of 105
minutes and was distributed by the New line cinema.
Source of information - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Snakes_on_a_Plane
Audience
The audience of this movie was aimed at 15 + which means it is advisable to be
over the age to watch this film as it contains language, a scene of sexuality and
drug use, and intense sequences of terror and violence. The genre of this film is
a thriller / Action. This film got a total of6 stars out of a possible 10. My
personally opinion of this film is that it is extremely well thought of the plot is
very unusual which makes you want to see it even more. The comments that
were left for his film was rather negative “what we have
here are very bad cgi snakes that neither look nor move
like real snakes. Snakes are scary because they
appear to be slimy, they crawl they slither. These
snakes do nothing of the sort. they glide along like they
would in a video game. They are cartoon snakes. i
would go as far to say that even someone that had a
major phobia against real snakes would not find these
ones scary” Looking though the different comments
they are mostly negative as the snakes look very
unrealistic. Due to the Internet hype surrounding the

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film, industry analysts estimated the movie's opening box office to be between
US$20 million and US$30 million. In its second weekend, the film fell to 6th
place with $6.4 million, a 57.6% drop from its opening weekend revenue.
However, by the end of its theatrical run, the film generated $62,022,014
worldwide, nearly double the budget. Snakes on a Plane had a DVD release on
December 26, 2006 in Region 2; December 28, 2006 in Region 4; and January 2,
2007 in Region 1. The DVD features commentaries, deleted and extended scenes,
several featurettes, Cobra Starship's music video, and trailers. The U.S. Blu-ray
was released on September 29, 2009
Source of information - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Snakes_on_a_Plane
Technology
Throughout the film there is an amazing source of technology used as there is
different effect used throughout. These effects are
used in different ways as they show many people
being hurt, however the best source of technology
used would be the snakes here was More than 450
snakes were used for filming to represent thirty
different species of snakes some of these ankes where
real but some where basic robotic snakes.
Thriller genre
Snakes on the plane is an ACTION / Thrillers .BY
looking at this genre you can be very stereotypical as you would immediately
think it is the more for men as it involves a lot of people being hurt
and injured by accidents involving snakes however this I just my
view.
Representation
In this film it seems to me that all the black males are
very gangster, to me this immediately makes you
think whether all black people are like this which is
wrong. All the men seem to act hard and try to impress everyone
which is not how black men are.
Mise en scene

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On this film it is fairly obvious there is a lot of props as there is
over 450 snakes used in the whole of this film which is a lot of
creating. In this film my personally favourite camera angle
would be when you notice the snake is crawling up the lady on
the plane as you really feel for the lady as you can see all her expressions.