Evaluation Activity 2.

We have taken Rhys from our film Strides and compared him to Johnny Whitworth's character 'Vernon Gant' in Limitless. Johnny plays a drug dealer, who is quite similar to our drug dealer Rhys. Both Rhys and Johnny play quite an unusual drug dealer part as they do not have the stereotypical dealer image. They both come across as smart, sophisticated men who you wouldn't really expect to be involved in drugs. They both have similar features and hair, stylishly slicked back. Despite their similarities of image, they are both from different age groups. Rhys plays an 18 year old dealer and Johnny is roughly 15 years older.

We decided to make our main character different to the typical drug dealers found in modern films as stereotypical characters are shown as big, unapproachable and mainly black males are discriminated against as being drug dealers. We wanted to break this tradition similarly to how Alan Gylnn and Leslie Dixon, the writers of Limitless did.