Evaluation Q. 2

How does your media product represent particular social groups?

Similarities and differences between 'Jacob' and 'Patrick Bateman' in 'American Psycho': http://www.imdb.co.uk/title/tt0144084/ starring Christian Bale: http://uk.imdb.com/name/nm0000288/?ref_=tt_cl_t1

Costume: Jacob is wearing all black to symbolise his evil intentions while Patrick doesn't wear anything at all except for trainers which could show that he is very comfortable in his skin. 

Body Language: Both of them are displaying a sense of aggression in their actions, as they walk towards the camera. They hardly blink and their eyes and very intense. The stance they are both adopting signify their dominance against their victims.

Role(in the film): Both are the main protagonists in their films and feature in most of the shots.

Dialogue: Both characters swear a lot in their films and do the most talking.

Make-up: Jacob doesn't wear any make-up  so you can see him as himself, his true colours of his brutal personality. While Patrick wears a lot of blood and he doesn't seem to mind it on him as he just carries on with whatever he is doing .

Props: Both Jacob and Patrick both wield a chainsaw as their preferred choice of weapon to use to torment their victims.

Here is a video of the chainsaw scene in American Psycho:

These two characters are definitely in the group 'evil, sadistic killers' , Christian Bale's character more so than Jacob which the audience can easily recognise. They can clearly see that there is a hidden agenda behind the reason why they are killing their victims with chainsaws, in 'American Psycho', later on in the film, the audience can tell that he is psychologically unstable and in 'Redemption', further on in the film, he is only killing other people to redeem himself and possible to avenge someone.