{"id":5102,"date":"2021-11-17T17:30:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T17:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/patterns-of-representation-in-the-horror-genre\/analysis-of-starve-2014\/"},"modified":"2021-11-17T17:30:36","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T17:30:36","slug":"analysis-of-starve-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/patterns-of-representation-in-the-horror-genre\/analysis-of-starve-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis of Starve (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Movie: Starve<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Production Year: 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tubi Provided Summary: Three friends researching a town legend about a feral, cannibal race living in sinkholes are captured and forced to fight others or lose and be eaten.<\/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\/504923\/starve?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: No<\/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\">Beck: Level-headed, ambitious, insistent, curious, caring, mix of masculine and feminine traits<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Candice: Stubborn, whiny, hysterical, cold, strong fighter, mix of masculine and feminine traits<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jiminey: Whiny, sensitive, impulsive, mostly feminine traits<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ezrin: Brooding, cold, calculating, masculine<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Runyan: No character development aside from being Ezrin\u2019s goon.<\/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\">Jiminey: First to die, quick death scene, shot in the head from below the chin, killed by Jiminey (suicide)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Runyan: Second to die, moderate death scene, stabbed with an electrical wand, killed by Beck<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ezrin: Third to die, extended death scene, shot repeatedly in the chest, killed by Beck<\/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\">Beck<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Candice<\/span><\/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: 1 Female: 4 Males<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Character Survivor Ratio: 1 Female: 1 Male (not including ambiguous characters)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Character Death Ratio: 0% of Females to 75% of Males (not including ambiguous characters)<\/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\">Starve offers an interesting take on the overused kidnapping trope in the horror genre. The cast is almost entirely male which, while not unusual for the genre as a whole, is highly unusual for kidnapping films which usually have mostly female victims. Additionally, Candice, even after being revealed as pregnant at the start of the film, puts up a good fight. She is strong and violent when fighting for her life and is highly assertive in her relationship with Beck where she openly questions his judgment and puts her foot down on her opinions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These aspects are not the only things this film has done that are contrary to the norm of the genre. There is a large disparity in violence as well, leaving 75% of the male main characters dead while the only female lead survives. Additionally, the male deaths are rather violent, something often reserved for female characteristics. Unfortunately, this film does not pass the Bechdel test, but despite this, analysis with the Sex Role perspective proves Starve to be a surprisingly good watch.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Movie: Starve \u00a0 Production Year: 2014 &nbsp; Tubi Provided Summary: Three friends researching a town legend about a feral, cannibal race living in sinkholes are captured and forced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[187],"tags":[116],"splot_meta":{"author":"Ariana Nichols","license":"","source":"Horrornews.net"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5102"}],"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=5102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamportfolio.drkretz.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}