Intertextual Links

Our film links into the wartime romance genre because its storyline is about a women losing her love to the second world war and how she comes to terms with her loss. Its a mixture of Atonement (Joe Wright, 2007) ,and The Notebook (Nick Cassavetes, 2004). It also features similar themes to An Officer and a gentlemen (1982, Taylor Hackford), The War Bride (2001,Lyndon Chubbuck), The Edge Of Love (John Maybury 2008)and Titanic (1997, James Cameron) which are all romances set in the 1940s/1950s and some feature themes of war.


Our name is an example of how we have incorporated themes from these movies into our film. We also looked at a few of these films for inspiration on the costume and hair ideas for our two characters. Our main inspiration was Keria Knightley's 'look' in The Edge Of Love and Atonement, she had a mixture of modern and old fashioned clothes style and hair. This was because both these films were filmed in a modern time period but they wanted to give them that war time look and this is what we wanted to incorporate into our film.



We especially like her hair and dress in this picture of her in The Edge Of Love:





We tried ti incorporate as many intertexual links as possible but found it hard with this type of genre.