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Film Industries: From Wales to Hollywood

Yr Ymadawiad/The Passing and The Village

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  • AS Unit 1

Overview

Recall questions on the directors and premises of both films, the conventions of rural and folk horror, landscape as a character, the twist ending and its risk, the effect of the Welsh language, marketing a film whose premise cannot be revealed, and the single remote location as a budget decision.

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Key term

Who directed Yr Ymadawiad/The Passing (Bryn, 2015), and in which language is it made?

Key term

Who directed The Village (Shyamalan, 2004), and which studio released it?

Key term

Describe the premise of The Village (Shyamalan, 2004).

Questions from this subtopic

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  1. 1

    Who directed Yr Ymadawiad/The Passing (Bryn, 2015), and in which language is it made?

    Model answer

    Yr Ymadawiad/The Passing was directed by Gareth Bryn and is made in Welsh.

  2. 2

    Describe the premise of Yr Ymadawiad/The Passing (Bryn, 2015).

    Model answer

    A young couple crash their car into a river in a remote valley and are taken in by a solitary man living in a half-derelict farmhouse, whose situation proves far stranger than it first appears.

  3. 3

    What kind of landscape does Yr Ymadawiad/The Passing (Bryn, 2015) use, and to what effect?

    Model answer

    It uses an isolated and partly flooded Welsh valley, whose emptiness and water cut the characters off from the world and make the place feel outside ordinary time.

  4. 4

    Who directed The Village (Shyamalan, 2004), and which studio released it?

    Model answer

    The Village was directed by M. Night Shyamalan and released by Touchstone Pictures, part of the Walt Disney company.

  5. 5

    Describe the premise of The Village (Shyamalan, 2004).

    Model answer

    A close-knit settlement surrounded by woods lives under an agreement with the creatures said to inhabit them, until a young woman has to cross the boundary to fetch medicine.

  6. 6

    Name two conventions of rural or folk horror that both films use.

    Model answer

    Both use an isolated rural community cut off from the outside world and a secret held by an older generation which the younger characters uncover.

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