What's Mine Is Yours, Honey (mini saga)

He spoke of his riches. He spoke of his wealth. He spoke of giving it up …

Then he was down on one knee, I had fallen. A white wedding, stained with red. Stained.

His riches are stolen, his heart is cold and these cuffs are his to bare. Alone.

‘Gods Among Us’ Commentary

The genre of my style model was an article, written using colloquial language in a persuasive manner therefore, my article is written in a similar style and the same genre. The audience of the style model was older (30+ audience), film enthusiasts and readers of Empire Magazine. My audience was similar; readers of Empire Magazine but slightly younger (late teens) due to the actor of choice being one of a teen TV show and a new young adult book based movie. The purpose of my model was to entertain meanwhile persuading and informing the audience, my article tries to reflect this.

The style model played with the lexical field of ‘stars’ throughout the article to reflect the complexity and brilliance of its chosen actor Paul Newman. I used this lexical field throughout my article too, along with repetition of ‘love’ lexis and the idea of ‘destiny’. I did this to create continuity and hopefully engage the reader; ‘The rising star, burns a hole in Hollywood. Destined for success is the lovable youth…’. Such emotive language strongly portrays the passion and ideally encourages emotive ideas for the reader.

The style model also frequently used comparisons (between Newman and other actors) to highlight Newman’s success and add humour to the piece. I tried to replicate some of these techniques and used a pop culture reference which my audience would be likely to understand; ‘Unlike Taylor Lautner, the audience recognised his beauty first!’ this is added for comical impact. It refers to the film ‘Twilight’ which Teen Wolf fans are likely to have watched and speaks of the character ‘Jacob’ who was transformed throughout the sequel and suddenly gained female attention. 

Gods Among Us #22 O’Brien

The rising star, burns a hole in Hollywood. Destined for success is the lovable youth known as Dylan O’Brien.

He burnt bright from the start; making his first ever appearance as an actor in MTV’s hit show ‘Teen Wolf’, he was introduced as the comical character, the representation of the audience and reality, he was not given a love interest and branded more as the jester than the heart throb. Unlike Taylor Lautner, the audience recognised his beauty first! Oh yes, this hilarious character stole our hearts.

In later seasons he took on an evil persona within the series and his raw talent shone through; he won the teen choice award for TV villain! Also winning the male young Hollywood award for breakthrough performance. I am clearly not alone in realising this guy’s skill; now he’s been plucked up by Hollywood and mass fame is inevitable as he stars as the main character in a new trilogy ‘The Maze Runner’.

The statistics agree; “The Maze Runner” was No. 1 at the box office last weekend, raking in $32 million. Now, you cannot argue with that!

His fan-base is forever expanding, questionably larger than Tyler Posey’s (Teen Wolf’s leading guy). We bow down to his talent and fall in love with him again and again in different forms, but at the core we see light – in interviews he makes us laugh and in panels we witness the love the cast also have for him. It appears he is not only a very talented actor but also a genuinely nice guy!