Most texts today mix genres. How true is this to your three main texts?

This is true of District 9. Throughout we see lots of references to other films of the Science fiction genre  with reference to postmodernism and its conventions. To start, the idea of someone fighting their own race to save another is a common feature in this film. At the end of district 9 there is a big shoot out where Wikkus is in the alien machine fighting the militia and the MNU while Christopher is running to the mother ship. This idea of killing your own race to save another links to Avatar and how he also fights his own race for another. In this particular scene of District 9 the idea of a dystopian society is obvious. When looking at the Mise-en-scene we see the war torn ground, MNU vehicles and soldiers, the Militia soldiers, alien technology and corpses lying everywhere. These conventions give a clear message that this is a dystopian society, a aggressive world they live in with no clear way of peace. In addition to this, in District 9 there are some typical Si-Fi genre conventions involved in this. The alien technology and the transformation are the two obvious connotations. In the scene where wikkus is sitting at his desk, just as the transformation is starting to occur we see use of Pastiche with reference to 'The Fly'. In this scene we see Wikkus pull off his nail as his human body is starting to decay and transform. Putting the two scenes side by side we can see that it is almost equal to the scene in the human fly where he also pulls his nail of in the early stages of transformation. However the Mise-en-scene in District 9 in this scene is filmed with a much more documentary side approach. The digetic sound of the office and people talking just makes it seem like it is an ordinary work place. However everywhere we see the MNU logo, showing that this is a dystopian and dominated society with strict rules, giving a feeling of great oppression. There is also bricolage in this scene. There is a mix of documentary, horror and science fiction. The documentary side is the office and its typical conventions, the horror side is the gore aspect with he use of decay and the sifi aspect in this scene is the transformation.

That was terrible ^^^^