Looking for Eric
The characters represent real life situations by portraying a man who's life is at its worst and has a mental illness. These characters are located in lower class houses. There are many British cultural references like the use of slang by the youngsters, the pub, British football team reference Manchester United, the British police and their use of language like how they use 'me' instead of 'my'. This is a typical Film Four story-line because it deals with relationship problems which is very common.
Submarine
This film portrays a teenage boy who is in a conflict between his relationship with his girlfriend and the relationship between his parents. This location was set in South Wales so its quite a boring normal British area. The characters have Welsh accents that the British audience will be familiar with and it uses British soundtrack. This is a typical Film Four story-line as it depicts the relationships between certain characters and life's difficult choices that people will need to make.
Four Lions
Film four used the characters in this film to depict the extremists in real life. The main characters represent terrorists and are used to portray the Islamic dominance and how they see the world. They used a location in Pakistan to depict where these type of people reside in which is a common stereotype. The British cultural references would be their accents, British soundtracks, road signs, references to mobile network and the few British areas that the British audience can familiarize with. This film isn't a typical Film Four representation, however the ending shows all the main characters dead and Film Four usually present sad endings. We can also denote this was a very risky film to produce as terrorism is a serious topic and this film portrays this as a comedy and would have been banned in many countries like America and the middle east.
Attack the Block
The characters here represent of mainly a black ethnicity which is stereotyped, because people see black people associated with gangs. This is aimed at teenagers unlike other typical Film Four films and there are many British references like Fifa and their use of street slang. This is not a typical Film Four story-line as it features aliens which is unusual, uses CGI which can be expensive, aimed at teenagers and it has a happy ending.
The Inbetweeners Movie
The characters here are all white British and have strong British accents especially the character Will who has a more posh voice which suggests he came from up North. The main characters all represent teenagers and they have a typical story-line where they have their own problems and decide to go on a holiday after they finish Sixth Form to get drunk and have sex. There are few British cultural references as their main setting is abroad, but they use slang language which represents all British teenagers. This isn't a typical Film Four story-line as this is considered a joyful comedy film with a happy ending unlike most other Film Four films.
