Kingsman - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

1. Contrast Belmont and Venice in four or five sentences. Explain which major characters live and work in each city. Explain which part of the main plot takes place in each city. Belmont is a christian island where there is peace and love whereas Venice is a port where merchants buy and sell from all over the world as well as a place where there is much hostility between the Jews and the Christians. Catos daughter, Portia, is the heir of Belmont where she lives along with her maid, Nerissa...

Kingsman attempts to intertwine a myriad genre; comedy, action, adventure, and spy, but only manages to eventually marrying action with British spy genres giving birth to a hybrid action-spy film. The strange incorporation of satire, hyperbole, and adventure certainly does not shift the film into another genre. Instead, it makes it more effective as a hybrid. On the other hand, there is the use of code words to make a statement which is characteristic of most spy movies. The two genres create a ...