Gender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V

Bku6tXLDo4

• Male = Dominant – tries to put his foot down

• Female caring/nurturing

Gender roles – employment25 mins

Reinforces patriarchal/dominant ideologies?

32 minutes in

• Gender again

• 1:06:00 in

Gender…

• How Mr Brown arranges his stationary…

• The strange objects Mrs Brown finds in her handbag

• Mrs Bird has a hoover for every occasion

Gender – countertype?

Male gaze?

Sexuality…LGBT? 55 mins

• Paddington: “Mr Brown dressed up as a lady”

• Joe: “In a dress…?”

• Mr Brown: “No! It was more of a house coat. It was quite liberating actually.”

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Age

• Younger:

Age

• Teenagers – Judy: “So embarrassing”

Age

• Middle Age:

Old age

Old age

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Ethnicity – Deepest Darkest Peru

• Alvarado (1987) – Exotic (expedition)

Ethnicity – Deepest Darkest Peru

• Alvarado – Exotic

Ethnicity – Deepest Darkest Peru

• Alvarado – Dangerous.

“Stranger Danger… Keep your eyes down. There’s a strange looking bear over there.”

Ethnicity – unaware of ways things are done

• Alvarado – Humorous

Ethnicity – Homeless/Orphaned

• Alvarado – Pitied

Ethnicity• Mr Gruber = Humorous. Eastern European –

quirky/odd

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Regional/National Identity

National Identity

Multi-culturalism

Paddington offers a shameless celebration of Britishness:

Matt Lucas’ cabbie pokes a jibe at extortionate drivers; Paddington interprets literally the officious rules of the Tube Station in hilarious fashion; the Geographer’s Guild flashbacks parody the well-spoken, outdated colonials to surprisingly acerbic effect.Paddington recognises London and, more widely Britain’s inadequacies while simultaneously celebrating its rich cultural heritage in the magnificent backdrops of London architecture, in the enduring intrigue of institutions like the Natural History Museum, in the distinctly English wit and pompous pretence of the bumbling Mr. Brown.It also clearly celebrates multicultural London, through the calypso soundtrack. King states "It adds to the magic of our London that there's always a band playing the song that happens to reflect your feelings," says King.

Social Class

I travelled light, carrying only the absolute essentials… maps, rations, modest timepiece and travel piano.

Social Class

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKWGB-0yUso

Social Class

• Hippie rockers to middle-class bores

Millicent (Upper Class)

Spoilt rich kid – whose father’s membership to the prestigious Geographer’s Guild was renounced. Felt working class life was a hardship and that she deserved what was rightfully hers – recognition, fame and fortune.

Mr Curry (Lower/Working Class)• Cockney-accent (sort-of), nosy neighbour.

Self-interested, living in late mum’s house. Xenophobic?

• “I have some meat paste sandwiches and pickles… they went off on Tuesday, bust you’re usually alright for a week.

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Immigration

• 7.35 – 10.55

Immigration

Paddington’s status as an illegal immigrant is quickly established when he responds to the Browns’ questions about where he has come from.

The use of the nominalisation ‘stowaway’ carries connotations of romantic adventure and thus is an interesting choice from the range of possible lexemes the film producers could have chosen, such as immigrant or refugee.

Telegraph“Here is the story of an illegal immigrant who stows away on a ship and pitches up in London brazenly expecting British hospitality and asylum. His initially unconvincing cover story is that a visiting British explorer from the Geographical Society taught his uncle and aunt in Peru to speak English… Many years later, after claiming to have been made homeless in an earthquake (a likely story), the aunt sends the orphaned bear to take up the (now dead) explorer's offer of hospitality.”

Telegraph

“I'm sure that UKIP will respond that while this is all very well, it comes down to a question of numbers. One well-spoken and polite bear turning up is fine. What if 260,000 turn up every year? It is a fair question. Within a decade we would have to build a city two and a half times the size of Birmingham simply to house all the Peruvian Bears. Could Britain's marmalade industry cope with the demand? Probably not.”

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