Genre

Four lions is a comedy drama. it has actors who have worked for television before and have some little experience in comedy. the real hero of this production is the director- Christopher Morris. A man with a legendary bad reputation for offending the nation with his crude humour and racist jokes.

Includes a groups of friends whom target each other with jokes and attacks of bad language. Other factors which add the humour is when a terrorist kills a sheep by accident, and as a consequence blows him self up too. Similarly, the same man attaches a bomb to a crow and wishes it to fly and blow up near people so he can truly call him sell a terrorist. In reality this is purely stupid, however with the concept of the movie, ideas like these are gelled together, and in turn, this makes the audience identify with the characters. Enigma codes are raised where the audience resemble their friendships and the acts of those friends and compare them to the bombers.

With regards to iconographic there are many icons in this film which resemble the genre of comedy and the theme of terrorism. for example, on of the protagonists is dancing with a neighbour whilst building a bomb (an activity which should be done secretive).

The characters themselves are shown to be stupid, and then once the group of friends have been established the audience can see who really is the biggest idiot. for example, you can have a convert, but a convert should surely be able to read his holy book, other wise his existence in that religion is pointless. also, the same man is forced to punch himself in the face until he breaks his nose and bleeds- what grown men would do this? but it is for this reason that the comedic values of the serious themes make the film a pleasure to watch.

Irony plays a huge part in this film. it is amazing to watch grown men whom cannot even sit down for 30 seconds without fidgeting like toddlers, becoming terrorists. a perfect example of this is when the American plane must be attacked but one of the men point the rocket launcher the wrong way, and ends up killing osama bin laden- ironically a result for the world.