The Analysis of the Relations Between Violence, Film Narrative and the Audience, with a Focus on Conceptualization of Justice and Moral, Examplified in the Movies of Quentin Tarantino

Film je s vremenom postao moćan vizualni medij s višestrukim ulogama. U ovome ćemo se radu baviti proučavanjem filmova koji u svom sadržaju prikazuju nasilje u kontekstu osvete i pravde. Multimodalnom analizom diskursa pokušati ćemo doći do odgovora vezanog uz pitanje prikaza nasilja u takvim filmovima. Odabrani su filmovi iz opusa redatelja Quentina Tarantina, poznatog po svojim osvetničkim narativima i eksplicitnim scenama nasilja. Predstavljeni su teorijski okviri koji istražuju publiku i njeno sudjelovanje u analiziranim filmovima, kao i teorijska podloga razumijevanja psiholoških pojmova nasilja, agresivnosti i pravednosti u kulturi, ali i publici. Analiza je ukazala na ponavljani obrazac sekvence pravde, kao i na ustaljene modove kojima se izaziva reakcija publike. Iako su nasilni filmovi u današnje vrijeme česta pojava, postoje razlike među filmovima, koje se očituju u narativu, načinu snimanja i izvedbi glumaca.Throughout time movies have become a powerful visual medium with multiple roles. In this paper we will examine movies which depict violence in the context of revenge and justice. Through multimodal discourse analysis we will try to find the answers to the questions of how the violence is portrayed in those movies. Selected movies are from the opus of director Quentin Tarantino, known to the audience for his narratives of revenge and explicit scenes of violence. The paper presents theoretical framework that researches the audience and the way the audience participates in the analysed movies, as well as a theoretical background for understanding psycholocigal concepts of violence, aggression and justice in culture, but also in the audience. The analysis indicates a repeated pattern of the justice sequence and the common modes through which the reaction of the audience is provoked. Even though the violent movies are more seldomly depicted nowadays there are differences between the movies, and they can be noticed in the narrative, in the way of film making and in the performance of the actors