Representation of the Mining Community in Pride.

Representation of the Mining Community in the film: Pride.

- Mining Community is not focused on as much as the LGBT Community. When their is a focus on the miners, and their struggles, there is little depth of explanation to the scenes, except the ones that feature the miners with their wives.

- The men are portrayed in a variety of different ways. Some miners children, like Maureen's are reluctant to accept the Gay's and portray a stereotypical masculine person, struggling to accept something that they are not, until the very end scene, when one of them finally accepts them and shakes their hand. Sian's husband is similar, he isn't happy with them at first due to the negative connotations of the Gay's, however soon comes round due to his wife, who eventually makes him realise that they are equal. - This gives the representation that the mining community are willing to accept change, and challenges the stereotype that 1980's men were completely against Gay people.

- The men in the mining community very rarely feature on their own, they are always accompanied by either their wives, or members of LGBT. This gives the representation that the mining men aren't independent, and need their wives to take care of them, so to speak, challenging the stereotype that men are the dominant ones who take control of their wives.

- Sian has a huge role, her story is centred around her struggle to make the miners accept the LGBT. She is the one who pushes the hardest out of the mining community, putting 10's of staples into the poster, only for it to be taken down again and again.

- The scene which shows the miners together, and away from their wives and LGSM is the scene where they are protesting against the police. Since some of the audience are already aware they lose the strike, the audience start to feel empathetic to the miners, as they are fighting a lost cause. it emulates the scene at the start when Mark is watching the news, with the miners who are fighting and rioting, the miners are similar to those miners that Mark was watching. The audience then realise that the scene is a daily, weekly occurrence for the miners, they have to do this all the time in order to fight for what they stand for, a sad realisation.

- When the LGBT community actually meet the Miners, the scene is awkward as they struggle to find things to say, and Cliff even struggles to say the words Lesbians and Gay's, which obviously is an act as he reveals he is gay. This works well as Mark says "1 in 5 miners must be happy to see us", and Cliff is the 1 in 5 gay, proving that despite being masculine and a miner, one can still be gay.

- In this scene, the miners are all dressed up in suits, and in formal clothing, where as the gays are in bright clothing, giving the interpretation that the miners are older, and more formal people.

- Gwen, who is in it for comedy purposes, challenges the stereotype of the 'Little Old Lady', usually this old lady is seen to be grumpy, moody, and ends all type of fun at parties, however Gwen challenges this stereotype as she is the opposite, she has fun and even goes to a drag bar, something more commonly associated with younger people!

- Maureen, despite being the villain in the film, actually represents the views common ideology in 1980's Britain, homophobia. People, and Thatcher's Government did not want to implement change for the LGBT Community, shown in Clause 28. This gives the film a more realistic edge, not everyone was willing to accept the gays, someone was needed to to act as a person from that time. If the encoders didn't create Maureen, the story may seem to unbelievable, people may not think its a true story as it wouldn't represent the common views in society, so it was a clever decision to create the character, Maureen.

- The entire community seem to challenge the stereotype of the older community being more Conservative, and more reluctant to accept different types of sexuality. Older people are stereotypically more right-wing, meaning tat their views often are against the gays, however a lot of the older people in the film are more willing to accept the gays, seemingly more than the younger people, like Maureen's children.

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