On Monday's meeting we had discussed props and decided it would be cool to have Red Cups for our film. They act as a homage to the classic 80's teen movies like House Party (Reginald Hudlin, 1990) and also contemporary comedies like Superbad (Greg Mottola, 2007). Originally used due to being brand-free the plastic red cups are strong convention in the teen gross-out comedy genre. This got me thinking about the symbolic power of the colour red as a warning, as bloody, perhaps dangerous but definably alive and loud. Its presence on the cup acts a metaphor for rebellion, excess, replenishment. Within my script they are a simultaneous emblem for uniform and anticonsumerism due to characters both actively choosing to use a cup to drink branded products from. More importantly it's the lead Jennie's absent-minded acceptance to drink from one that allows her to be raped. This in itself opens up metaphors regarding female genitalia mixed with violence. All this has accumulated into the the locked version of my script getting it's definitive title.
Red Cup by Tom Stock