The camera starts off at a low angle, it brings our attention to the actors while the man is explaining that he can help. There is a high angle on the second half after he says he is going to take her back the Spanish mission. Her job is almost over because that is where they want him to take her in the first place.…
Secondly, there are two major lenses used in this movie to behave characters’ activities. Telephoto lens can give good views of characters or objects in foreground planes. In Run Lola Run, when Lola meets some other characters, telephoto lens can let us focus on both Lola and the others, and make the connections of them easily to be noticed. In addition, wide-angle lens is also used many times to present deeper scenes. In this movie, basically wide-angle lenses are used to make Lola’s running look faster than it really is, and pass Lola’s anxiety to audience. Furthermore, wide-angle lenses are also used to introduce the objectives to us. When Manni decides to rob the store, Lola finally runs into this scene, and screams from that deep spot.…
Many times when characters are singing and dancing in these films they often look directly into the camera as if they are singing directly to the audience. Also, the music begins to play and the mise en scene tends to change. This happens often in La La Land when Mia or Sebastian begins to sing a stylistic change occurs as either light begin to dim, pieces of the set moves or even an overall tonal shift. In Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, at times during her songs, she asks questions mostly rhetorical ones but they are directed towards the audience attempting to engage us with…
Scientist One ushers the being towards the bench. Scientist One removes the ties from the beings hand, placing each on it's knees. From behind the being, the scientists are shown in the background. Their voices are muffled as the being cannot understand what they are saying. Scientist Three exists the room. The front of the being comes into the focus of the audience. The camera zooms into the being from an extreme long shot to an extreme close up, focusing on the being's eyes.…
The feature presentation we viewed in class was a movie I thought I would never see in my life time. Learning about the term “Hermaphrodite” and the actual story about why people use that particular term to describe a human being always struck my mind, and after seeing the film in conjunction with the reading the book Testo Junkie I am coming to grips with the term. That word is also used to describe the main character in the story Phoebe, a women who has mens chromosomes.…
The world portrayed in the hospital ward is one of sexual repression and inhibition. This is exemplified in the Big Nurse as well as in Nurse Pilbow, who is frightened of the patients' sexuality. It is frequently emphasized that the Big Nurse has large breasts, the mark of her femininity, but she tries to conceal them. Everything about her and the ward is sterile, cold, and lifeless, from the Big Nurse's manner down to the white starched uniforms of the staff.…
Throughout the film’s three alternative versions of events, It poses deeper existential philosophical questions that challenge the audience’s perceptions of coincidences of relationships and the post-modern societal values of relationships. An example is the protagonist Lola and her boyfriend Manni’s relationships. The post-modern relationship value that they behold has been effectively conveyed throughout the film with the use of numerous distinctively film techniques. In commencement, the incorporations of several distinctive visual motifs are presented in order to convey the nature of Lola and Manni’s constantly changing relationship. The motif of Lola’s scream emphasises danger, fear and pain. The audience envisions Lola in full zoom “screaming”. The zoom effect magnifies her emotion and draws the attention to her red hair. The red motif evokes associations with love, passion, danger, blood and even death. The association of these motifs highlights Lola’s determination and energy in wanting to save her troubled boyfriend. Furthermore, the calamities caused by these motifs hence are represented through other mediums such as the monochrome “red scene” where Lola and Manni explore and challenge each other’s love. Lola questions the sincerity of Manni’s love towards her, as she is unconvinced. Their constant explorations of their love…
Stage direction is used to show the actors action and reaction. For example, in the bank manager’s office, through 5 stage directions to show Gladys determined to give her daughter a better life. “Gladys who’s all dressed up” “she pulls out of her bag a special certificate for punctuation” “she stares him down” all her action in response to Bank manager’s concerns about Dolly getting to work. This event shows Gladys hopes Dolly can be accepted by white society. It reflects Gladys desires to belong to Aboriginal society and white society.…
Over the course of cinematic history, filmmakers have manipulated the image of the body to convey larger ideas about gender, society, and interpersonal relationships. In Isabel Coixet’s The Secret Life of Words (2005), Coixet uses the body to make a statement about the body’s relationship to interpersonal communication and bonding. She manipulates the body’s image, action, and position, as well as the lighting and setting, to express how the body imparts emotions and experiences in a more powerful way than words. The body’s mode of communication leads to a mutual understanding and bond between people. In thoughtfully dissecting a still from Coixet’s film depicting Hanna placing Josef’s hand on the scars of her naked breasts, one can clearly see these values at work. The action of the scene expresses not only the full effect of Hanna’s trauma, but also her shedding of emotional walls and subsequent sexual comfort with Josef, showing the budding of their bond. The action effectively showcases the impact of…
While watching the movie Kinsey, I was slightly uncomfortable watching it in a room full of strangers. But I can't say that it was a good educational film. Seeing that back then no one took the risk or was knowledgeable enough to discuss it to other people or the whole world. Even though it was a big risk, Alfred Kinsey took up the research of the subject. Human sexuality has changed so much since the 1940s to present day. Today, you see it and hear it everywhere. From friends to social media. I really like the scene from the film when he asked a question and chose a girl to answer and she freaks out on him when the answer was the eye. She protest that he can't have her answer a question like that in a room full of men and women. Before Kinsey…
Issues of discrimination to transgender also occur outside of detention centers. Kit Yan shared the social injustices he experienced as a queer, transgender, and Asian American in his performance Queer Heartache. He became aware of the unacceptance of transgenders in the US when he expressed his newfound queer identity through rainbow stickers on his new Jeep Cherokee. As a result, his lights were smashes and tires were broken. Like transgender detainees, Yan was out casted and assigned to a secluded dorm on college campus. Similarly to how detainees are told to silence when assaulted and rape, Yan was recommended that for his own safety he should remove the stickers which expressed his pride and identity. The treatment of both Yan and transgender detainees illustrates the degree of unacceptance the transgender community has received in the US society.…
Evil occurs in many forms throughout the movie Angel Heart, whether it is through Louis Cypher who emerges as the devil himself or the voodoo, black magic, devil worship, greed, lust, suspicion, vice and handful of murders that take place throughout the journey of Harold Angel’s search for Johnny Favorite. Despite these being some of the most abominable evils known to man, it is not these encounters that make up the central evil found in the movie, but rather Harold Angel’s denial of himself which leads to his lack of ability to see what is right in front of him.…
In the scene The Cave Witch Burton explores a variety of techniques such as mise-en–scene and sound. The background music is significant as it build tension which creates suspense and fear. The music builds up in the background as the camera moves closer to the witches face, creating an extreme close up…
Fallen Angels is the first movie I have seen which Wong Kar Wai directs. The plot of the movie revolves around three main characters: A hit man, his partner and a mute petty criminal. The story that unfolds first is of Leon Lai playing a hired killer who works with but rarely meets his partner Michelle Reis. This narrative is heavy in moody reflection and contrasts with the comical second story, which has Takeshi Kaneshiro playing a mute who indulges in petty crime whilst blundering around nighttime Hong Kong meeting, and antagonizing all manner of characters. The color used through this film are strong neon colors, surrounded in a dark mood, emphasizing that these colorful people are lost souls, looking for love and hate in the wrong places.…
Traditional definitions of Women’s Film connote explorations into the emotional journeys of women as they encounter internal and/or external challenges. In this way, analysis of Women’s Film is sometimes aided by comparing the female characters to the men within the stories. The male characters in My Brilliant Career and Jindabyne are presented as failures and defeated heroes in many ways, when they are matched up against Sybylla and Claire who are “instinctively more sensitive/emotional”1 and far more determined and passionate about ‘righting the…