Zulu

Director: C.Y. Endfield
Writer: John Prebble
Release Date: 22nd January 1964 (UK)
17th June 1964 (USA)
Genre: Action, Drama, Historical.
Plot: Outnumbered British soldiers from different military backgrounds do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorkes Drift

• Sounds of Zulu chants are very haunting, intimidating. Shows the vast numbers of them and how outnumbered the British soldiers are.
• Gunshots echoe around the land, shows the open space. Like in North By Nothwest, vast baron landscape, nowhere to hide.
• Use of a longshot to show a house in the middle of the desert shows how the landscape reflects characters. A tiny house amongst vast open plane. Again like in North By Northwest, tiny bus amongst huge baron desert.
• Landscape reflects characters!!
• An extreme longshot shows more Zulus hiding in bushes. Raises tension as we know there are more to come but the British do not.