To What Extent Is Wreck It Ralph Post Modern?

This clip of Wreck It Ralph holds some elements of Post Modernism in it. Firstly, Felix wins a medal in his game as he is the 'good guy', so Ralph decides that he also wants to win one to prove that he can be a good guy too, so he is going against the structure of the bad guys being only bad, and stepping outside of this boundary as he wants to be different. This breaks the structure of a modern text as there has always been a line between the good and bad characters in films.

A traditional value is where he goes back to his game, where the rest of the characters are having a party without him, which is a stereotypical value for the bad guy to be discluded and neglected from everyone else. He feels sad and lonely so wants to be good instead of staying bad which is unconventional.

The Pac Man game where they held their meeting is normal life for them, inside a game, however we see it as a simulated. They walk out of the game and return to ‘reality’ but the audience still this as simulated as they are still game characters, but its real for them when they step outside a game. Intertextual references are included in this clip when all of the bad characters from each game are meeting together inside one game, which is blurring the boundaries of all the different genres of the games together. Also, Ralph takes an 8 bit cherry out of the Pac Man game, and it turns to ‘real life’ once it has been brought out of the game, but this is still animated for us. This also creates a nostalgic feel for the audience as they recognize this as one of the games main features.

Another traditional value is where everyone runs away from him in the ‘Game Central Station’ as he is bad and no body likes him. However even though he is, he breaks and goes against this convention when he gives Q bert (a character from an unplugged game) the cherry he just obtained,so he is breaking the trait of being bad and doing something nice for someone else. This is also taking the cherry feature from the Pac Man game and blurring it with another game which had been unplugged, like it is giving something away.