Comments on: Red Riding: themes and characters https://globalfilmstudies.com/2009/04/20/red-riding-themes-and-characters/ An introduction to global film for teachers and students Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:17:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: venicelion https://globalfilmstudies.com/2009/04/20/red-riding-themes-and-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-571 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:17:06 +0000 http://itpworld.wordpress.com/?p=1744#comment-571 In reply to Linden.

I need to check this — but it will have to wait a couple of weeks as I’m away from the novels.

]]> By: Linden https://globalfilmstudies.com/2009/04/20/red-riding-themes-and-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-570 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:58:29 +0000 http://itpworld.wordpress.com/?p=1744#comment-570 As I recall in 1980 Hunter is shot and killed by Dick Alderman, and John Murphy. The latter is one of his own, being a colleague from Greater Manchester.i.e. essentially the same character as in the TV film but with a change of surname.

]]> By: venicelion https://globalfilmstudies.com/2009/04/20/red-riding-themes-and-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-569 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:21:16 +0000 http://itpworld.wordpress.com/?p=1744#comment-569 In reply to omar ahmed.

This is good stuff Omar — I can see I’ll have to go back to Get Carter and look again at 1983. I’m nearly at the end of reading 1980 now with 1983 still to come. The point you make about Peter Hunter’s nemesis is much more powerful in the film version. In the book, the same character is not ‘one of his own’. But in the book the investigation by the top brass into Hunter’s past does have much more of a Manchester connection. I’ll try to post something on the changes book to film and what they might mean in the next week or so.

]]> By: omar ahmed https://globalfilmstudies.com/2009/04/20/red-riding-themes-and-characters/comment-page-1/#comment-568 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:09:19 +0000 http://itpworld.wordpress.com/?p=1744#comment-568 The ‘Get Carter’ influences are striking when one takes a closer look at 1980 especially if you position the character of the Chief Constable played by Paddy Considine within the context of the traditional doomed noir protagonist. Jack Carter’s death is inevitable and the same can be said for Paddy Considine in 1980 – but they are unable to grasp the larger forces at work around them because their desire for justice is momentary. However, unlike Jack who never gets to meet the assassin hired to kill him, Considine’s character seems even more tragic given the fact that he is murdered by one of his own and is powerless to respond in any significant way other than appear dumbfounded. The shotgun is perhaps another inadvertent nod to ‘Get Carter’ and it becomes symbolically important towards the end of 1983. Note also how the image of the sea becomes very important at the end of 1983, another intertextual link to Jack Carter’s dead body on the beach of Hartlepool. But once again, unlike the unremettingly bleak ending to ‘Get Carter’, ‘Red Riding’ finishes a more optimistic note?

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