Originally posted by = Jennifer =
do you really think a bug's life is a sophiticated text
^^ I certainly think it was. The thing is, don't assume the marker gives a toss about your text. It doesn't matter if it's Fight Club or Toy Story. It's about how sophisticated your ESSAY is, not your text. You can ramble incohrently about Fight Club and you'll still get cruddy marks.
Bug's Life showed RFTG on many levels. 1st, there was the obvious grasshopper vs. ants, ie, local vs global concept. 2nd, there is the global/local theme of the circus bug stuck in the hectic environment.
Not only that, it's SATIRICAL and markers love that. It might be intended for children, but it still contains very interesting concepts. It's certainly has bits of postmodernism, with the theme of no wrong or right (note how even amongst the local, that not all is well, as Flick is more or less excluded in the beginning. This could be a powerful example to prove that the local isn't all good, an assumption that many people make.). There is the intertextuality all over the place, which adds to the disconcerting hecticness of the global, the removal of any sense of place or belonging.
Also, doing a children's film shows that you're not just mindlessly doing the related text that everyone else is doing, that there is originality going into it. And I find animated films are the easiest to analyse, because the filmic techniques are really obvious cos it's intended for kids.
And I could go on, but that's just an example. Don't think that the markers really care about the audience of your text! It's up to you to convince them that you are sophisticated and most of all, understand what's going on. It's what you can do with the text, not what the text can do for you.
But of course, you have to be confident with your text and can use it to sustain the argument. So I still advise to choose carefully.
BTW, speaking of animated films,
Shrek was a popular choice for RFTG.
