genre- trainwreck

Genre – Train wreck

Train wreck is a 2015 American comedy film directed by Judd Apatow and written by Amy Schumer. The film is about a hard-drinking, promiscuous young magazine writer named Amy (Schumer) who has her first serious relationship with a sports doctor named Aaron (Hader). The film also includes famous sportsman, wrestler John Cena and basketball player LeBron James.

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·         the trailer follows Amy’s one night stands and excessive drinking, until she meets the sports doctor Aron when she is set a project at his workplace for the magazine organisation she works for. It follows what could be their developing relationship and the commitments Amy has to make to make things work out with Aron

·         the movie is set in New York as in the trailer the landscape of the sky scrapers and famous buildings are displayed, a scene is also shown where Amy wakes up from a one-night stand and finds out she’s on Stanton island where she has to get the ferry back to Manhattan.

·         Amy is portrayed as an excessive drinker who finds it hard to commit to a relationship due to her parents getting divorced when she was young, Amy Schumer plays this part very well as she has made a career by a performing comedian, she works for a men’s fitness magazine and that’s when she meets Aron when she is assigned to interview him for a project. Aron is a sports doctor who treats members of the sporting world, including Lebron James, he is a quiet and down to earth guy who is ready to commit to a relationship with Amy.

·         In the equilibrium the setting is established, which is New York. The disruption isn’t made clear in the actual trailer, although for what usually is a turn for the worse in a trailer it instead shows a turn for the better, maybe not what amy thinks, but its when she realises that she has to commit to this relationship because she  needs to realize that she loves aron the doctor. The trailer doesn’t show the recognition of disruption or reinstatement of equilibrium , making the trailer subtle and not giving the audience to much information, this makes the audience more intrigued and more likely to watch the film.  

·         The music played also builds in beat and temp, as the trailer progresses, also the more upbeat the music gets, the more we recognise amy and aron’s relationship developing.  The binary oppositions are quite modern and obvious to the character usually played in rom coms, the excessive drinker party girl who isn’t ready to commit to a relationship vs the down to earth smart realistic guy who can commit to a relationship easily.