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Discuss how genre and narrative features create meaning and generate audience response in Twelve Monkeys.
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Discuss how genre and narrative features create meaning and generate audience response in Twelve Monkeys. 'Twelve Monkeys' was directed by Terry Gilliam and released in 1995. Gilliam has written and directed many films including 'Jabberwocky' and the hit 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas', which starred many major actors, including Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro and Tobey Maguire. 'Fear and Loathing' follows a journalist and his lawyer as they embark on a drug-fuelled search for the "American dream". This film is similar to 'Twelve Monkeys' in that both are removed from reality and infer a strong sense of surrealism through the way they are presented. In 'Twelve Monkeys' this is done to embed a sense of fantasy into the films diegesis, whereas in 'Fear and Loathing' the hallucinogenic cinematography is used to reflect the drug-distorted world of the protagonist. When 'Twelve Monkeys' films first starts the screen is black and green words appear...
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