This resource will be studying the seven frameworks for analysis in Gone Too Far (2014) and Sightseers (2012).
Gone Too Far!
Authorship
Gone Too Far! (GTF) is a British-Nigerian comedy/social realist drama directed by Destiny Ekaragha. She is only the third black British woman to have directed a feature length film that received UK theatrical distribution (cinemas). All of her previous short films premiered at the BFI London Film Festival (LFF) while GTF premiered at LFF in October 2013 and had its theatrical release in October 2014 a year later. This was unusual but it was felt that some changes needed to be made as a result of initial feedback. It is an adaptation of a 2007 Bola Agbaje play of the same name, which was critically acclaimed at a number of theatres. Adbaje worked with Ekaragham with the help of the then UK Film Council Development Fund (now BFI) in developing the play into a film script. After the film’s release, Ekaragha was named by BAFTA as a ‘Breakthrough Brit’ and has been commissioned by BBC One since to direct a fictional autobiography of Lenny Henry’s life and also plans to shoot a Zombie film in south-east London. GTF was distributed by the UK independent Verve to exclusively London cinemas.
Genre and Narrative
GTF is primarily a comedy, which is the key appeal of the film but it is also hybridised…
