I will be analysing the stuff about the 2011 film The Debt. It is a drama-thriller film directed by John Madden and it is based on the screen play written by Matthew Vaughn,  Jane Goldman and Peter Straughan. It is a remake of the 2007 Israeli film that goes by the same name, written by Assaf Bernstein. The main stars that feature in the film are Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Ciaran Hinds, Tom Wikinson and Marton Csokas.

The film is set in 1966 and is about some spys who are on a mission to find and capture Nazi war criminal Dieter Vogel who is known as The Surgeon of Birkenau', infamous for his horrific pseudo-medical experiments on jews during world war 2. They want to take him to Israel to face justice.



The trailer is a direct form of promotion for the film. It will be shown on television and cinema to ensure that lots of people view it. The trailer starts with the logos of the companies that produced it. This gives them promotion and lets the viewers know who has made it, if they are a popular company the viewers may be familiar with them. It then cuts to a shot of some silhouetted palm trees, the colours used are also yellows and oranges, all these things suggest that the film is going to be set in a place with a hot climate. The next show shows three silhouetted figures, this continues the theme of mystery that has been current so far, not much information has been revealed yet. This fits in with the usual things used within this genre. In the next shot, dialogue is introduced. A woman, who appears to be addressing a group of people, it talking about the silhouette people who we have seen in the previous shot. They are being talked about in the past tense which tells us the previous shot is in the past. The dialogue continues into the next shot which is showing the three people who are being talked about. They are dressed in a way which suggests this is from the 40's. There is also an old fashioned plane which is another clue to the fact that it is being set in the past. There is then some quick shots of some army pictures which suggests that it is being set in the war times. The dialogue continues and names the people who are being talked about, as the names of the people are said, there is shots of them now, and then in the past, doing similar things, e.g. walking. This makes us make the connection that it is them. Next, as the dialogue continues, the shots continue to mirror what is being said. The next shot is the main spy woman going into Russia after the war. There is then a shot of her beating up some men, this will appeal to the female audience because having a main female character that is good at kicking people, as typically it is a man who does the kicking. After this, more of the plot is revealed using quick shots showing more of the storyline. We find out who the evil character is and why he is needing to be capture him. We also see hints towards a romantic storyline with in the film. This is a contrast to the main genre which is thriller.

The film is being released in the UK on September the 30th with the certification of 15. This allows the target audience be anywhere from teenagers onwards. The target audience though is aimed at middle aged people. This is apparent as there is references to things in the film that people of a certain age are most likely to know about, whereas teenagers may not. This film is being shown at multiplex cinemas such as cineworld and vue, and would probably not be shown in arthouse cinema's as it is a mainstream film. The ticket price would vary from cinema to cinema but would probably be the standard price of around £7.

The promotion of the film differs in different countries. The title of the film is different in England, Germany, Russia and France. The posters are also different, as in America, it is a much busier with more text. The British poster is more minimalistic and features much less text.