Semiotics: blog tasks
Part 1: English by Tarun Thind analysis 1) What meanings are the audience encouraged to take about the two main characters from the opening of the film? The audience is encouraged to believe that the main characters are unfriendly and criminal characters through the use of background characters and what they say. This is also accomplished through their costumes and behaviour/expressions throughout. 2) How does the end of the film emphasise de Saussure’s belief that signs are polysemic – open to interpretation or more than one meaning? At the end of the film we see the main character giving the old man who they seemed to have robbed earlier in the movie a fresh bunch of bananas and we also find out that both the main characters are deaf as they communicate through sign language. This shows how signs are polysemic because the signs throughout the movie can be seen differently depending on the person seeing them. Some people may have seen the signs that they were deaf but some may thi