QUESTION 2

The social class is divided in:

Upper class:  The upper class is the social class composed of those who are wealthy, well-born, or both. They usually wield the greatest political power. In some countries, wealth alone is sufficient to allow entry into the upper class.

Middle class: The middle class is the most contested of the three categorizations, the broad group of people in contemporary society who fall socio-economically between the lower and upper classes.

Lower class: Lower class; sometimes described as working class are those employed in low-paying wage jobs with very little economic security.

In our film we don not try to represent any concrete social class. But in fact, the audience will think that the objective (the girl they try to kill) might be someone that belongs to an upper class and that it's someone that might have big amounts of money; in the other side, we have the assassins, that because of the enigma that there is on the film, we don't know if they belong to  a middle, lower or upper class, but more probably they belong to a middle class, because they have car and suits.

We don't try to put any stereotypes in the film; so all are just representations of something that may happen anywhere: a white 'rich?' woman is tried to be attacked by two white assassins while she is at home, but her guardian saves her and fight for her life.

If we try to analyse each character and the social class, we will say that:

The boss (Mrs Sorano) pretends to be middle aged, this fits the convention of action films. She is supposed to be Italian, which in part fits in the stereotypes of action characters, but gives a bad image about Italian people because it suggest that they are into crime.  The fact that she is a woman challenge the convention of action films where the powerful people normally are men. This is in part a good and a bad representation of women; first it suggest that woman can achieve the same power that men use to have in this genre, but shows that women are able to the same bad things that men.
She doesn't do any physical activity, so we don't know anything about her physical abilities, which is a bad representation about women, because it suggests that women are weak and don't do physical activities.   She doesn't show any emotion during the whole scene, which again challenges the convention that women normally take the caring role.

About the assassins the convention is met, because they are both young; I think this is a bad representation of the young people because it shows that they are able to commit crimes.  Both assassins are Caucasians, which fits in the convention but gives a bad image about Caucasian people.  They are both male, which fits in the convention of action/thriller films; but again that gives a bad image because it suggests that males are able to do bad things to people.   Both assassins are in an unspecified social class, but their clothes may suggest that they belong to the middle class, because they are wearing suits, which fits the convention of assassins films, where assassins normally wear suits.  Both assassins show a good physical ability, which fits the stereotype and the convention in action films that men normally have a good physical ability.

 

The victim is young woman. This might be a bad representation of young people because it suggests that young people easily get in trouble.  We don't know her social class, but we suppose that she is in the upper class, because the assassins are after her, she have her own house and she has a guardian to take care of her. The fact that she is a woman, suggest that women are weak and need someone to take care of them, which is a bad representation. She is Caucasian.

 

 

The protector (Mr White) is supposed to be an Indian young man. There is a good representation of young people in this case, because this makes us see young people as brave and good because he stands in front of the danger to protect the girl.  He is Indian, what breaks the convention, because as we normally see in this genre, the good guy normally is Caucasian. This is a great representation of Indian people because they are seen as brave and kind people that can help people in trouble.
He has good physical ability because he can fight the bad guys. This again a good representation of young people.