Monarch of the glen mock (Age)

The general stereotype of age were the elderly are looked upon as being slow, frail people is challenged  in this extract. This is done by having a scene in the extract of a group of elderly people all working together on a sort of building project. Now not only is the fact that you don't usually associate the elderly with manual labour the challenge of the stereotype, also the stereotype of the elderly being lonely is being challenged as it is a large group all together as a team. Also in the scene a diegetic soundtrack of up-beat country music is playing. The music reflects the mood of the people as being quite happy and energetic, which again is not something you would associate with the elderly.

Another stereotype of the elderly is that they are rather  submissive and powerless toward the younger generation. Although in this extract this isn't the case. In the argument that breaks out between Amy and Paul, a lot of high angle shots to show that Paul has power over Amy. The idea i think behind this extract is that the stereotypes of age are somewhat reversed. A part of the extract that supports my point is the scene where Amy is preparing to leave and slow non-diegetic music plays thats rather slow and sad, somewhat reflecting her loneliness, which is what you what normally asociate with the elderly. whilst the scene is playing though, you can still hear the happy country music playing outside while all the elderly are are laughing and talking.

A pattern i picked up on was that through out the entire extract there was a sort of hierarchy of age. With Amy being the youngest