Welcome to the punch and Headhunters analysis

Welcome to the punch and Head hunters are two very different films from each other, going as far as originating from two different countries, but equally having some similar elements of thriller and to a degree, action. Welcome to the punch is a film released in 2013 as a 'British action thriller'. The film focuses on the themes of crime, deceit, corruption, solitude, and most importantly revenge. The film focuses on a Police officer who three years prior to the main events of the film, almost manages to capture an infamous criminal, but fails and is shot in the leg, this event causes him hatred for the criminal, and has been seemingly traumatized by it, and further more is now looked down on by those he works with. As he works to capture him once again, the story follows his world is turned around, and finds himself working with the very person he tried to find in hopes of stopping his corrupted boss, which he has just discovered, this is where the thriller element is seen, as the normal situation for a police officer that is normal for him, is turned around on its head and into something that they would almost never find themselves in. The action element of the film is much more prominently seen than the thriller aspect however. As the thriller element only truly comes in half way in, with only elements of it appearing in the beginning. Head hunters is a Norwegian film from 2011. This is also an action thriller, but does it in a slightly different way. The main film's story is about a man who lives a very successful life as his job as a Head hunter with his wife, but also steals paintings to create even more money for him and his wife. We learn soon that his reasons behind this are because he fears that she will leave him, and uses the money to buy her gifts. The main character soon meets a man who wishes to get the job position he is currently offering, but after he does not receive this, he attempts to kill the main character, this results in him having to flee from his home after his best friend is killed after a shootout between them, the main character now has to go to cash in on the painting himself, and is soon pursued and is eventually forced in a hospital, where after multiple attempts at his life, is forced to change his appearance in hopes of returning home and getting back at the killer. This is where the Thriller element is apparent, as from the beginning, a life of stealing paintings is an abnormal one for most people indeed, and it only continues to escalate as he runs for his life simply because he didn't give a job position, and because of this the action elements of the film seem very connected to the Thriller, rather than the thriller situation being separate from the action scenes. The main theme of this film is insecurity, as this is the main drive and reason for his motives, and without this insecurity factor of how he looks, and his height, causing him to fear losing his wife. Without this drive of his, the film would not exist, and the film also concludes the film by letting the audience know that he has overcome this insecurity with the line "I am Roger brown, I am 163 meters tall, and that is just enough" Representation in these films do not play too much of a role as other films, and are harder to distinguish. In particular for Welcome to the punch, due to a total of one female character. This female character plays a fairly prominent role in the first half of the film, though very little typical stereotypes are seen of this woman that are normally seen in the Media when it is catered to the male audience. There are very few examples of other representation of other characters in Welcome to the punch, because the vast majority of them are white males. With little cultural diversity. In Head hunters, we see more obvious stereotypes of women, there are only three women in the film, but all three are sexualized in some way. The first woman who is Brown's wife, is seen naked in the shower, the second one we see during when Brown is having an affair with his wife, in the midst of sex. And the third one is seen naked shooting blanks at the friend of the main character. So it is somewhat clear that the film is catering to a specific audience of males who would be attracted to that. Though aside from the sexualized imagery, it is very low key and out of the way as far as it goes, and is mostly ignored in the second half of the film. Despite the films being fairly different at face value, they share mainly similarities down to their genre and themes, despite having two very different origins.