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Talking Head: 22 Jump Street                                                

Unit 26: Film Studies

Assignment 1: Analysing Films

Aarifah Ali

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After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are waiting for officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) when they go deep undercover at a local college to find the drug WHYPHY. But when Jenko meets a Zook on the football, and Schmidt feels left out, they begin to question their partnership. Now they don't have to just crack the case. But also they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown men can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them both.

22 Jump Street

  

Actors

	Jonah Hill	...	Schmidt
	Channing Tatum	...	Jenko
	Peter Stormare	...	The Ghost
	Wyatt Russell	...	Zook
	Amber Stevens	...	Maya
	Jillian Bell	...	Mercedes
	Ice Cube	...	Captain Dickson
	The Lucas Brothers	...	Keith & Kenny Yang
	Nick Offer man	...	Deputy Chief Hardy
	Jimmy Tatro	...	Rooster
	Caroline Aaron	...	Annie Schmidt
	Craig Roberts	...	Spencer
	Marc Evan Jackson	...	Dr. Murphy
	Joe Chrest	...	David Schmidt
	Eddie J. Fernandez	...	Scarface

Channing Tatum

Introduction

 22 jump street is an American movie which was released in June 2014. It's a action comedy about to school boys who never got along with each other  who become police officers. They both become partners and have a assignment to do to find out who's selling "WHYPHY" (DANGEROUS DRUG)

The title of the movie does give much away about the story line. But does give away the fact that the movie is a comedy.

The movie was directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, produced and staring Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum. Written by Michel Bacall. It is the second movie off 21 jump street. Based on a television programme around the same theme. The film was released in June 2014. By Columbian pictures Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film received positive views and has made over $330 million at the box office

For this film there are two main characters Jonah Hill who play Schmidt and Channing Tantum who plays Jenko. I think these two characters were really good for this movie. There team work made the movie a very big success.

I choose this film because when I saw the first film I fell in love with it. So I then watched the second film a while back I made the decision that this is the film that I was going to study. I got attracted by the humour of this movie and the emotions of the characters. The movie was very interesting how the characters' get drawn into things around theme so easily 

Opening scene

 The movies starts with the two characters on a roof sitting on a car jus looking over the city. Which is over looking at the main location of the movie(USA). For comedy movie there can be many possible chosen beginning. But the directors choose the roof of a building which was very clever because it doesn't give away what is to come in the movie.

The props of the beginning are the car and the gun equipment and the background of the city and the tablet. The props are all about  what the movie is about the car and the guns symbolises' there is going to be a lot of action and drama, and the city symbolises' that they're going to be some fun and drugs involved.

`The lighting is used very modern and bright. Thorough out the movie there is high key lighting. You know this by the opening scene the sun and reflecting of the car and the clouds out.  There is a hint of a warm effect used on the opening scene when the two characters' are sitting on the car.

The costume of the two characters' are very up to date modern normal man type. The costume portrait that the charters are ordinary men. This symbolises that they are happy out going people. If you look at them closely you can tell that they are on a mission you can tell by their facial expressions and Schmitt sun glasses symbolise this.

Whereas if you look at the (Villains) evil guys known as the "WHYPHY" dealers. They look more rich and carefully dressed. Look at the middle character known as ghost (Peter Stormare) he looks evil as he is up to something bad. This is symbolized by the fact that his hair is on point and his eyes seems as they are squinting slightly and he has a smirk on his face, and the way his jacket looks scruff. If you look at the characters on the left if you look at his facial expressions you can tell that he is ready to shed some blood by looking at his eyes and the way his lips are together. Whereas the other character on the right looks slightly scared by looking at his eyes you can tell this.

When Jenko and Schmitt are called and told there is something going on in a area near them they both go to find out what the dealers are dealing. But both characters' have no idea what the dealers are dealing. Schmitt tells Jenko to "improvise" as the to characters' try to find out what's in the crate. The dealer walks towards making it seem like his going to kill them but ask them if they wanted to see the good. The look on the face was a relief because they thought that got caught. So as both characters walk towers the white box on the truck. As you can see in the picture above the look on their face show that they are so eager to see what's in the white box. But as soon as the open Schmitt leans over to see what inside, and suddenly a octopus jumps out and grabs onto Schmitt's face

For the opening scene there are many different camera shots used. The scene starts off with an extreme close up of the tablet that Schmitt is holding. Then the camera pans in a circle slowly over both of the characters' face. The camera pans until it gets both Jenko and Schmitt in a medium shot. The shot starts from a medium shot and moves sideways into wide shot of the car and both Jenko and Schmitt sitting on the car bonnet. Them it finishes with an extreme wide shot of the building, the car and Jenko(Channing Tantum) and Schmitt (Jonah Hill) waking into the camera frame. And that the ending of that.

The main sound used for the opening scene are diegetic sounds the characters' are talking and the noises of the gun are all diegetic sound. But as soon as they start checking out the guns songs starts playing. The song was by DJ Snake (Turn down for what) this is a non diegetic sound.

The main editing used is fade but however in some scene there are fades used.

Equilibrium in this film suggest that there is happiness but sometimes the happiness that you get from others is not like the happiness you from close ones. There is some sadness which makes you realise that losing something close to you even though you seem happy. You still feel like something is missing in that happiness

Final scene

The final ten minutes of the movie is the best part there is so much action in the ending. The best fight is between Schmitt (Jonah Hill) and Mercedes (Jillian Bell)

The begging and the ending are similar in one way the fact the both Jenko and Schmitt are fitting with Ghost. But in the begging they were fighting to find out what they are dealing. Whereas in the ending they are fighting to get the WHYPHY drug off them.

At this point the equilibrium is that both Jenko and Schmitt are happy to work together there is some emotion when captain saves Schmitt's live. But throughout the film there is happiness.

The final scene is full of action and love. Jenko and Schmitt realise that they both are not holding each other down infract they are hold each other together. The partnership is so strong that either one of them is ready to take a bullet for the other.

The main scene of the final scene is when Jenko and Schmitt are sitting on the care bonnet just like the begging and apologising to each other for not understanding there relationship with each other. The starting and the ending of the movie was very similar. But both were shot in two different locations.

Here the body language of the two characters' shows that they are relived. And happy with one another. The audience is very emotional at this point of time because the two characters have got together and there is nothing separating them.

Overall throughout the movie both characters' go through some sort of a break down. They don't realise that they are not dragging each other up untill the end when they both save each other.