Les Revenants - Lesson 4

'In the 21st century, it is essential for TV shows to offer their audience multiple meanings' evaluate this claim with reference to Les Revenants. 


 The inevitability of death 

Les Revenants is a highly uncommercial show due to its themes and ideologies 

Les Revenants presents the audience with a complicated and hard to decode set of ideologies

There are a range of different characters in the show which makes it appeal to a wider audience because people will relate to some of the characters.

Camilie - will appeal to teenage girls

Clarie - might appeal to middle age middle class women like her

Julie - might appeal to women who might identify with her or men

Simon - potentially appeals to young gay man or women 


Simon and Lena go home scene: 34:00-38:00

How does this scene create multiple meanings for different audiences?

In what ways are men and women represented in this scene?

Walking to Adele's house:

  • Echos through the underground bypass
  • Shadows and low key lighting
  • Long take as they walk down this passage way
  • Suspenseful soundtrack
  • Diagetic sound of footsteps and then a dark barking echoing out of no where
  • Not much communication between them 
  • The mise-en-scene of this underground tunnel symbolises crime, further anchored by the eerie atmosphere and dog barking
  • Simon shows no attraction to Lena, very atypical, very rude.
  • Lena is also quite rude and gobby, as when Simon walks away and does not say thank you, Lena say "your welcome dickhead"
  • We expect these two characters to get together but this isn't the case. Escapism for the younger target audience
Simon outside Adele's house:
  • Simon stands outside her house looking in through the window.
  • Adele notices this through her mirror 
  • This is a generic paradigm of horror, when we see someone standing behind through a reflection then when she turned he was gone
  • Slow paced editing throughout this scene, gives the audience more time to speculate what is about to happen
  • The knocking at the door gradually gets louder and more aggressive then there is screaming and shouting between them through the door. The audience could interpret this in many ways
  • low key lighting symbolizes their emotions 
  • Simon is a stereotypical aggressive man 
  • Conforms to hegemonic heterosexual relationship norms 




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