The Importance Of Cinematography In 'The Royal Tenenbaums'

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Cinematography (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Cinematography is the art of motion pictures recorded using various techniques with a camera. The essential used of cinematography in a film is to create meaning to its audience. In the movie The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson the director has applied an artistic way to present the scene where Richie Tenenbaum (Luke Wilson) suicide. Anderson has engaged this element to help captivate the audience into the world of misery resided by Richie. He has discovered the untold secrets and past lovers of his adopted, married sister Margot Tenenbaums (Gwyneth Paltrow) whom he secretly love his entire life. This scene lays its dreadfully honest illustration of hitting rock bottom.
This scene is largely established using the soundtrack; Richie does not mention a word until he shaved his hair off but that is the only sentence he mentions throughout the scene. The song “Needle in the Hay” by Elliot Smith delivers an emotively beautiful fear which ensembles this scene faultlessly.
This first chord of the music can be heard the moment when Richie left the private detective’s office. The music arrangement of this soundtrack is rather simple and …show more content…

This helps to illustrate the significance of framing the central figure in the composition of a shot. Besides that, close-up shot is used at the scene where Richie cut his hair bringing the meaning of releasing his emotion towards Margot and how seriously he took Margot’s secret. Straight on angle has mostly been applied in this film; a significant example is when shooting Richie over his shoulder allowing the audience to view his reflection shown in the mirror. Besides that, this scene also poses the point of view shot in which the audiences view Richie as the character himself, both plainly through the mirror and metaphorically by passing on his desolation through his

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