Genre Deconstruction 'White Chicks'

For my genre deconstruction, I have chosen to analyse the opening scene of the film 'White Chicks'.

Genre

'White Chicks' is a comedy-action film which contains many 'spoofs' from the two main characters. Having watched the opening scene of this film, I believe that it conforms the conventions of both genres. 
Starting with comedy films, the main conventions of this type of film genre are light-hearted scenes, with bright lighting, natural camera angles and usually 'idiotic' characters who make fools of themselves and make silly mistakes. As I have mentioned previously, this film opening conforms these common conventions of comedic films due to the bright scene and the silliness of both characters, who pull comedic faces.

Other comedic conventions embedded into this scene are the small and 'hidden' jokes that some views may understand, whilst others may not, such as the reference to the song 'La Bamba' by Los Lobos and The Gypsy Kings. This will entertain some viewers as they will know the song and will find it humorous and clever how the producers have embedded it into the film. 

This opening scene conforms the action genre as well as it shows, what the audience is led to believe as, heroes and villains, (the 'ice cream' sellers as the villains and the two men behind the counter as heroes). Towards the very end of the scene, the two men behind the counter reveal their true identities and say, "FBI, you're under arrest!" indicating that there will be some more undercover work and some fighting scenes. After this section of dialogue, the two FBI agents jump over the counter and go to chase the 'villains', showing that either a char chase scene or a fighting scene is about to come up. This is also a common convention of action films.
          

Name & Typography

In this scene there is no typography, however for the film promotions and posters, the typography for the film title is in black and white, showing irony for the actual plot of the film, (views will realise later on in the film, that two black men have to dress up and pretend to be two white women). This also conforms the common conventions of a comedy film as the humour is not just in the film but in the advertising as well. The name of the film 'White Chicks' is contrasting of what the two main characters are actually like. This again shows irony and comedic hints, therefore conforming the conventions of the comedic genre. However, the name of the film subverts the action genre as we would expect a more serious name for an action film.
  

Sound

For this scene, the sound presented to the audience is only diegetic dialogue. This creates a 'natural' and 'everyday' scene, which is a common convention for both action and comedy films. The FBI agents start off with bad and over dramatic 'Hispanic' accents which is humorous for viewers, however, at the end of the scene, when the two characters 'reveal' themselves, they sound authoritative and stern, which conforms the action genre, making them sound serious and more like secret agents.      

Location(s)

The location of this scene is in a newsagents in a city somewhere in America. This is an everyday and normal scene which conforms both genres. Due to the setting being in a city, it makes the film more dramatic and 'realistic' for an action film, again conforming the common conventions of an action film setting.  

Plot

The plot in this scene is that two men who 'own' a newsagents are expecting a delivery from an ice cream company. When the ice cream men come into the shop, they are asked questions by the two men about their product. The audience gets the impression that it is supposedly drugs that the two shop owners are expecting as they ask "what flavour is the ice cream?". The ice cream man also says, "Lets get down to business", indicating that there is some illegal trade occurring. Eventually, the men who own the shop reveal that they are in the FBI and the ice cream men make a run for it, with the agents about to chase after them.