{"id":4610,"date":"2021-10-20T04:52:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T04:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/patterns-of-representation-in-the-horror-genre\/analysis-of-boo-2005\/"},"modified":"2021-10-20T04:52:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T04:52:53","slug":"analysis-of-boo-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/patterns-of-representation-in-the-horror-genre\/analysis-of-boo-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis of Boo (2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Movie: Boo<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Production Year: 2005<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tubi Provided Summary: Five college students spend a night in an abandoned hospital and learn they\u2019re not alone when they encounter a spirit trying to escape the psych ward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Film Can Be Accessed At: https:\/\/tubitv.com\/movies\/606390\/boo?start=true<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Does This Movie Pass The Bechdel Test: Yes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Character Analysis:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jessie: Nervous, emotional, sensitive, strong under pressure, outspoken, feminine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kevin: Not very intelligent, driven by sex, cheating on Jessie with Marie, very masculine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Emmet: No discernible personality, caring to his dog, feminine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jacob: Ghost antagonist, angry, masculine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marie: Sensual, highly sexualized, ditzy, hysterical, stereotypically \u201cbitchy\u201d, feminine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Freddy: Mild-mannered, quiet, feminine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Allan: Outspoken, loves his family, strong, masculine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meg: No notable personality, possessed through the whole film<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arlo: Token character of color, strong, law enforcement officer, masculine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nurse Russell: Ghost protagonist, caring, strong-willed<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Death Analysis<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Emmet: First to die, extended death scene, after being killed and reanimated by a ghost off-screen and slowly melting, shot and exploded, killed by Meg<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marie: Second to die, extended death scene, attacked by Emmet and slowly melts before being shot, killed by Kevin<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Freddy: Third to die, moderate death scene, begins melting, shot, and exploded, killed by Arlo<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reanimated Kevin possessed by Jacob and Reanimated Meg possessed by Nurse Russell: Fourth to die, moderate death scene, pressed together and shot with the same bullet, killed by Nurse Russell to keep Jacob from escaping<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Survival Analysis<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Survive the film<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jessie<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Allan<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arlo<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dead but not destroyed<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jacob<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nurse Russell<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Final Statistics:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Character Sex Ratio: 4 Females: 6 Males<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Character Survivor Ratio: 2 Females: 3 Males (including ghosts)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Character Death Ratio: 50% of Females to 50% of Males (not including ghosts)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Final Takeaways:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boo is a unique film in the horror genre. It takes the common story of a haunted house and creates characters that are self-aware, acknowledging that they are the dumb teenagers in a horror clich\u00e9 that go into a scary house and are never seen again. In addition, for an early 2000\u2019s movie, this film offers a surprisingly progressive story compared to its counterparts from that time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For example, while the cast is slightly male-dominated, Boo surprisingly passes the Bechdel Test. In addition, deaths are mostly similar between characters with no particularly drawn-out or gruesome moments saved for any one character. The deaths are also proportionally even between the sexes of the characters with 50% of males and females surviving the film.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Boo offers a surprisingly head-strong female lead as well. She is highly outspoken and opinionated. When her boyfriend attempts to talk over her or demerit how she feels, Jessie simply dumps him in front of all their friends and proceeds to validate herself as if he meant nothing to her. Jessie is also the one that solves the puzzle of the film, comes up with a plan of escape, and executes that plan nearly flawlessly. Because of her unique role as seen by the Sex Role perspective and this film passing the Bechdel Test, Boo makes for an interesting watch despite its plot-based shortcomings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movie: Boo \u00a0 Production Year: 2005 \u00a0 Tubi Provided Summary: Five college students spend a night in an abandoned hospital and learn they\u2019re not alone when they encounter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[187],"tags":[91],"splot_meta":{"author":"Ariana Nichols","license":"","source":"IMDb"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}