The analysed sequence is from 2001 A Space Odyssey (USA 1968; Stanley Kubrick).
The computer HAL is malfunctioning and tries to get rid of the crewmembers. The only survivor is Dave Bowmen, who decides to disconnect HAL, and heads toward the Logic Memory Centre Room.
Middle Shot: The camera is above Dave as he begins to remove HAL’s memory blocks. The room is extremely narrow and it is lighted by an aggressive red light, the preponderant colours are black and red. The mise-en.scene guides the audience’s response to an oppressed, stressed and extremely dangerous situation. The red lighting of the room also has another function; throughout the film HAL is represented by this red eye, this red room symbolises that Dave is now inside HAL.
The repeated patterns of the wired netting combined with the imposing geometrical design of the Logic Memory Centre Room amplify the digital nature of HAL. The wired motif reminds us of a jail cell, emphasising the pressure on both the character and the spectators. The sound track used in the sequence is minimal; we only hear the oxygen running in Dave’s Helmet and his respiration, thus adding to the anxious atmosphere.Dave seems trapped in a cage, a deadly one. He starts to remove the crystals that are HAL's memory blocks, they are clear crystals that glow a brilliant white, which reminds the audience of the cold logic of HAL's (crystal clear) mind.
Close middle shot of Dave’s profile: the front of the frame is occupied by HAL’s eye, which is represented by a clever combination of two symbolic geometric shapes, the rectangle and the circle (the running geometrical forms which run throughout the entire movie), organic and inorganic, built artefact and biological intelligence; two bin...
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...to hear a song his “father” taught him.
‘Yes, I’d like to hear it HAL’ says Dave, with a very confused and almost sad voice, as if he were holding the hand of a dying man. It starts singing a childish song called Daisy. For the audience, Dave does not disconnect a computer, rather, he is killing an “innocent child.”
The camera jumps into the eye of HAL, we now have a frontal medium close up of Dave, the red tone applied by the eye filter combined with the heavy shadows, makes Dave look evil, from HAL’s point of view, and furthermore, for the audience. It keeps on singing, soon its voice resembles a plaintive deaths rattle, he dies. This particular framing crystallises the emotion of the scene; we are now shown that, throughout the whole sequence, HAL could not see what Dave was doing. He really “felt it.” The futuristic Ulysses has finally defeated the Cyclops.
This is where mother played many games of torture with Dave. She played 'Gas Chamber' which is a dangerous game where Dave has to stay in the bathroom with many different chemicals causing him to choke. She also made him swallow ammonia and made him sit in a bathtub of freezing cold water for hours.
In the first 20 minutes of 2001: A Space Odyssey you see a group of monkeys going through evolution. The first change you see is that of a leader. In the beginning, each monkey did their own thing, and was not bound to any organization whatsoever. The monkeys did what they want when they wanted. Then the change begins. A single monkey, by himself, rises to the top of a cliff. He stands and screams. The other monkeys notice him screaming and began dancing and rejoicing. They scream and jump around, in what appears to be reverence for their new leader. Stanley Kubrick shows the change very simply, yet its message is still very clear. The monkeys had never shouted as loud or danced as much as they had previously in the film. Their actions confirm that something in fact had changed.
In the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, created by Dr. Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick, the plot sequences that are symbolic. The section of the movie called “The Dawn of Man” has many examples of symbolism. First, there are five things in “The Dawn of Man” that show the endangerment of a species. Bones, the search for food, a leopard easily killing an ape, the frightened eyes of an ape during the night, and the first invasion at the waterhole show the Australiopithicine’s weakness and their failure to fully protect themselves against predators and competitors. Next, the conjunction symbolizes an important event in human history. For instance, the eerie yet powerful music that is played during the image of the conjunction symbolizes the spiritual unknown. In addition, the Australiopithic...
Now we are into the body of the film. Chuck wakes up in the life raft. He checks his beeper and his watch. He begins to realize that he is alone but still attempts to communicate. He hollers, “Hello, anybody?” He writes H-E-L-P in the sand and later with tree limbs. Now that he has survived the crash and washed up on an island, complications occur; new problems arise.
mission he has no choice but to kill the crewmembers. Because Hal was programmed to be perfect and incapable of error, Hal thought he could do a better job taking care of the
I was charmed by this film the first time I saw it, and every time since. It was the synthesis of the journey of mankind into the future and an argument for space as mankind’s ultimate destination. It was the best science fiction film I had ever seen, as it presented several different possibilities and scenarios of what could happen as well as what might happen to man in his quest to conquer space. The introduction of the computer as an artificial intelligence was an added plus. The idea of a machine making the same mistakes as any human being proved out in its own statement: that any glitches in its operating parameters had to be due to human error. Given that machines are incapable of emotions like guile, hatred, fear and sorrow, HAL was nearly as emotional as any organic being. This in itself was a glorious foil for man’s ambitions to discover the wonders of deep space.
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The sudden change in luminance, occurring as Cheng lights the lantern, also conveys the effect that light has on a scene. A key part of mise-en-scene, directors utilize lighting to emphasize certain emotion or aspect of the scene (127 Bordwell and Thompson). In the case of the third segment, the use of low-key lighting emphasizes the contrast between lighter and darker areas, drawing even more attention to Lucy. Paired with the change in filter color, the lantern also represents Cheng’s newfound spiritual inspiration. Covering the room in colored light as it illuminates, the lantern mimics Cheng Huan.
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What grabbed your attention first:Well, I think that the part that really griped me is when Dr.Rolf van der Berg had discovered that a Monolith (a huge black rectangle made of an unknown material) had just appeared on Europa (one of the moons of Jupiter).Summary:Dr.Heywood Floyd was sitting in the space station Pasture when he saw Haley's comet and decided to actually land on the surface (by convincing T'sung Corporation that it would be good advertising). So off go Dr.Floyd, Dr.Chant, Clifford Greenberg and the Universe's crew to haley's comet.Dr.Rolf van der Berg was called to his office at 5:00 in the morning to find that on Europa There was a new mountain three times the size of Everest had appeared and that a thousand kilometres away from the mountain a monolith about five hundred kilometres wide and a thousand two hundred kilometres long.When Universe landed The passengers were allowed on to the surface but only if they had some body with them so that if something went wrong they could help each other out. Floyd found some caves and decided to investigate it but came back empty handed. After The universe dropped the passengers back off at the moon base the universe was assigned to go pick up a ship that had crash landed on Europa.
There is a misty cloud of dauber, grey in color over the room. The camera zooms in on Theo in an extreme close up with his face displaying worry over the current situation. Then it makes a cut to the a hallway with the mist covering peoples faces and also because it is darkly lit. The third cut in the scene is made back to Theo and Kee soon after the fourth cut is made. The camera angled at a different position as well and zoomed in on a women siting on the floor with her hand out, the camera highlights her hand as it reaches out toward Kee in disappear and joy as they see the baby in shock. As the scene progress and Theo and Kee walk down this hallway and stairs several cuts are made and the camera moves behind them, on the side of them and in front of them. The entire scene is shot mostly in medium long and medium close up seeing the reaction of each person as they see the new baby. The scene is very sound effect heavy with mood setting music playing in the background, a smooth opera like voice. There is also gun sound effects heavy military machine raffles and military tanks rolling. The scene ends as it begins with an explosion in the background as Theo and Kee make there way out of the war
...never able to understand that the Machine was man-made and was therefore imperfect like humans. Kuno and Vashti talk and kiss each other and Kuno explains that even though they are going to die they have never been so alive.
The Odyssey by Homer is a story that has been told countless times over several thousand years with many different versions. O Brother, Where Art Thou? is one of these versions. Even though this movie is considered to be one of the better adaptations of The Odyssey, it has some details that make it undeniably American. The main parts of the story are there, such as the Cyclops, and Odysseus escaping Ogygia, but things such as the Klu Klux Klan (KKK), and the music played throughout the movie make it distinctly American.
The story begins with Dave telling the reader a little about himself and his old job as a bouncer at a nightclub. He appears to be your average 40-year-old; he talks about providing for his family, playing with his kids, drinking with his buddies, and watching Fraiser. However, throughout the story, the reader gets a more and more in depth look into the mind of Dave.
Mise-en-scene is used in many different parts of the movie to help the viewers feel as if they are a part of what is going on. An example of the use of mise-en-scene and also lighting used throughout the movie is when the characters are inside the matrix. The camera has a slight shade of green on everything during the scene. This could be identified as mise-en-scene. The green lighting is used to inform the viewers that the scene is taking place inside the matrix and it could also be a form of a lighting technique. The computer code is green, also which links it to the matrix. Then it changes to a blue light when they are back in the real world. Another technique of mise-en-scene is used when Neo first enters the matrix. He is in a room that is completely solid white and appears to be never-ending. This technique is used to show that