Paranorman (2012)

INTRODUCTION

Every films will have their own genre in order to make the film be more interesting for the audiences. Not all the movies are success with the mixing of genre but some of movie could really applied and organized well the hybrid genre. As in this Paranorman film, it included the mixing genre and will discuss it as the following below. 

SYNOPSIS

Norman is the boy who can speak to dead. Unfortunately, there are no one believe him but only his friend who called Neil, believes that Norman has this kind of ability. One day, Norman's uncle tells him of an important annual ritual he must take up to protect the town of a curse cast by the witch at centuries ago....

DISCUSSION

The main genre in this film is the Horror. The unnatural horror which fall under horror genre was shown in this film where there are the existence of seven victims Zombies and also the witch who called Agatha. Furthermore, the threat to normalcy also can be found in this film. The first situation which fall under the threat to normalcy is when the seven victims zombies came into the town of Blithe Hollow which with the presence of human beings. And for the second situation for threat to normalcy is where the seven victims zombies assumed that Agatha, the witch is a threat to normalcy because she can see the ghost and end up was sentenced to death by the Seven Victims Zombies. 

Beside this, the another genre in this film is the Action. For example, the seven victims zombies raised from their graves and chase over Norman and his friend, Alvin. In addition, Neil's brother and Norman's sister together with Alvin and Norman sit in the car and trying to escape themselves from the zombies, at the same moment, the police woman chasing behind their car in order to summon them. These scenes were actually show that the action was existed in this film. Not only this, Norman was jumping through the spikes to get to Agatha was also fall under the action genre. Another scene which show the action existed is where a woman use the gun to shoot one of the zombies. 

The third genre in this film is Comedy. When added in the comedy genre, it actually could helps to reduce the audience's horrible feeling. Most of the comedy scene would have the existence of Neil because his action and the way he response to something. For example, Neil believes Norman's ability and he asked Norman to help him so that he can play with his dead dog.  

Adding on, the way Neil fall down from the gate after he has been rejected by Norman when he invited Norman to play hockey with him.

Last but not least, the genre for this film is the Teen film. Teen Film is targeted at teenagers and young adults in which the plot is based upon the special interests of teenagers. For example, Norman was been bullied by Alvin in school because he think that Norman having mental problem where Norman can talk to the dead. This actually show the normal scene to the audiences too as well. 

CONCLUSION

As a conclusion, a good film not only just rely on the plot of the film but also needed the mixing genre as well so that can make the story more interesting and attract more audiences.