Kingsman and Moonlight are two very successful films with two very different budgets, Kingsman's budget was 104million USD whilst Moonlight's budget was much less at just 4million USD, you can tell that the budget in Moonlight is small due to the camera shots, lighting and editing. Moonlight is a text about a young black boy growing up trying to identify his sexuality, set in Miami it frequently shows how black people live their everyday lives. Kingsman shows the life of Eggsy who is brought up through a working class lifestyle trying to make his deceased father proud, in this text he see our protagonist encounter many different people who represent different classes and stereotypes.
Kingsman's genre is action/ comedy with Eggsy joining the Kingsman being an MI6 equivalent in the text, so it is a spy film as well, whilst Moonlight is a drama and that is it. immediately just by watching the two texts you can identify that Kingsman is more exciting and fast paced with witty comedy and Moonlight is for older audience with more patience with a powerful and meaningful message which makes the audience aware of homosexuality as it happens everywhere and that is the misconception which homosexuality as people think that you can only be white to be gay.
Similarities with the two films are that our protagonists are brought up from a poor working class background, with the parent figure being female and being easily influenced by a male figure, however both characters show emotion and love for their mother even though they make mistakes. as well both texts show the contrast of class, with the Kingsman service in Kingman being upperclass and the housing estate representing the lower class, and in Moonlight 'the hood' represents a poor working class atmosphere and Juan the dealer being a richer more upper class representation, as well as the school showing a middle class representation, stating that Terrance is in some sort of secondary education.
In Kingsman the most nostalgic scene is the bar fight scene, in the beginning of this scene we see Harry who is played by Colin Firth a very well known actor talking to Eggsy about his father, he patronises Eggsy in a way by offering him a shot into Kingsman, whilst talking to Eggsy, the two men are approached by several men who are angry at Eggsy for what happened in a previous scene, they tell Harry to move out of the way and on his way out one of the men say something behind his back. Here Harry says the following 'manners maketh man' and engages all of the men in a fight, it turns into guide a violent intense and comedic brawl with fast camera shots. Here we the audience can see that the film has a large budget because of the editing a the way the shot is film, for example in Moonlight we see a lot of scenes filmed with cameras with less quality and there is a bit of shaking to set a more natural and raw environment.
Both films are very male dominated, and about young men trying to identify themselve. in Kingsman we see Eggsy trying to figure out his life and eventually become part of a gentlemen's club. However in Moonlight we see Terrance grow up and figure out his sexuality, both plots are very masculine but are very different. the only glimpses of females we get in both texts are shown as secondary characters such as mothers, or helpers. We see Roxy in Kingsman who is always helps Eggsy on his quest into Kingsman, and in Moonlight we see Teresa who always offers help and takes care of Terrance when he needs it. Clear difference in both texts is obviously as stated above genre and pace, however Kingsman has considerably more diversity than moonlight, Kingsman features Black, white, Latina and asian, however never really features another race or religion at all, Moonlight is however set in a predominantly black community showcasing black lives.
Kingsman's budget was 104million USD which is quite large, it then quadrupled that in box office making a staggering 414million USD. We can see that Kingsman is very star studied with actors like Michael Caine, Samuel L Jackson, Colin Firth and Mark Hamill. It has very good reviews as well with 7.7/10 on IMDB and 74% on rotten tomatoes, it also won two empire awards with the actor who plays Eggsy, Taron Egerton winning best male newcomer and the film in general winning best british film. This film did give lead role Taron Egerton his breakthrough in his career as he has also featured in other films such as Eddie the Eagle, Legend and a voice performance in Sing. Kingsman The Secret Service was successful so the producers decided to make a sequel, it is common with mainstream action films that a sequel is made, and generally the 2nd film in just to make more money and will never live up to the representation of the first. For Moonlight only having a budget if 4million USD, then to have a box office of 65million USD is very impressive, it isn't very star studied and from what I know none of the actors relay made a breakthrough onto the scene, it also scored a 98% on rotten tomatoes which is near perfect. The text itself Won the most prestigious prise of the year, taking the Oscar for best picture, as the genre of the text is a drama, the film is highly unlikely that it will have a sequel, the reason being it doesn't need one, the text is a powerful moving film with a great message, and it is more of a one off standalone film.
In conclusion both films are hugely successful due to the plot and the idea of the movie, as both movies contrast they stray away from mainstream films, for example Kingsman is similar to James Bond however in James Bond we know what we are going to get with the film, as it usually follows a path. with Kingsman we know nothing and have to keep up with the storyline as it develops. Moonlight is a very Unique text as it is something we have never seen anything like it. Winner of the 2017 best picture we the audience can see why as it is so powerful it becomes more than just a film it changes opinions and views. when watching this text when first released it would have stirred controversy and would have left audiences leaving screening in disgust. however more people understood the message isn't a problem it is a young black mans sexuality, and has changed how many people think of young black males not just in America but all over the world.
