As with the lighting, many of the angles of the film are the same. Hallström uses eye-level angles throughout most of the film. The simplicity of this technique adds to the minimalism characterized throughout the film, the town of Endora is a simple place and the Grapes are a simple family, using mostly eye-level angles supports the simplistic vibe of the story. Hallström uses a few oblique angles at times of distress and panic. One example of this is when Gilbert wakes up with Becky in the field and he realizes he needs to go home and fix the damage that he has done to his family. Another example of this technique is when Mama Grape dies and Arnie finds her. She is shot at an oblique angle, which emulates the distress that Arnie then feels for the loss of his mother. One other varying technique is when he shows Arnie up in the tree. He is shot from below, putting him in somewhat of a power position at the top of the shot shows the power he has over the family. Arnie is what is keeping them together and keeps them working hard for a better life.
The next property of the film is the shot length. The film has many close-up shots. As emotional realism is an important idea throughout the film, close up shots give the character the opportunity to express whichever emotion. One key example of this is just before Gilbert burns down the house, there is a close up of the match box with the saying “Keep away from children,” after the house is in flames, the camera shows a close-up of each of the Grape children. This symbolizes that they are not children anymore. Another technique that Hallström uses is long shots for sweeping scenes of the setting. An example of this is mostly with Becky, when Gilbert is showing her where he lives, the ca...
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...el. There are very scenes when Arnie is seen clinging to his mother’s side or riding on Gilbert’s back. Even with Becky, when she is thought to be leaving Endora for the first time, he gives her a tight hug. This difference shows how the two boys, who have grown up together in the same situation, processed the same experiences differently. Arnie, who does not necessarily understand social norms is more open to social contact, where as Gilbert is more reserved and hardened by his experiences in life. This leaves him often watching scenarios regarding other people rather than just being a part of the social contact.
Hallström uses many different techniques during the editing of this film. Many of the cuts are jump cuts from take to take. An example of this is after Becky meets Gilbert’s mother at Arnie’s party then it cuts to the scene where Becky is leaving Endora.
Ray takes advantage of the use of cinematic staging to enhance the emotions of both the characters and viewer. During Jim’s argument with his parents about going to the police, the use of back shots and full frontal shots mirror his inner conflict. While Jim and Judy speak privately in the mansion, their faces crowd the frame in a close up shot reflecting the vulnerability and intimacy of the
Fried Green Tomatoes, a story about something or whatever, regarding friendship, and what not, somewhere in a southern American small town, whilst focusing on the lives of four women of the past and present is a tale nonetheless that just so happens to exemplify many elements of southern gothic literature. Stemming as an example of such within the story, elements such as freakishness, imprisonment, violence, and outsider are very apparent as they are peppered all throughout making it quite evident in regards to this claim. This story without a doubt is truly a modern paradigm of southern gothic literature as it is clear that it follows the pattern of transforming archetypes to portray them in a more modern and realistic manner. From beginning
One way the filmmakers did this is with the on location shots of rubble in many scenes. The characters in these shots are carefully placed to make the rubble stand out behind them. Lighting is carefully placed to illuminate the rubble and make it stand out. However, the carefully planned cinematography also plays into the overall meaning of the film and not just how it looks. The lighting, for example, influences our feelings for certain characters. Susan Wallner is always filmed in light. This is a drastic difference from how we see Hans Mertens. Hans is usually filmed with low light and is very dim. This helps show that Susan is optimistic, while Hans is pessimistic. Another way lighting is used in this film is to create shadows. Shadows are very prevalent in the last sequence of the film. Hans has confronted Bruckner and as the camera cuts back and forth to each of them we see Hans shadow keeps growing bigger and bigger behind Bruckner. We can interpret that as the shadowing is growing bigger so his Bruckner’s fear, because the dialogue coming from Bruckner is getting faster and we can also hear the fear. There are many times in the film where close ups are used to make the storyline more dramatic. One scene that comes to mind that makes use of quick cuts and close ups is in the end of the film: Susan ran in, stopping Hans from killing Bruckner. At this point we
She shows the true culture of her family’s life and how they act. Artistically, this frame includes lots of detail and is realistic. Behind the doors and windows is a blank, only shaded area. The conversation between the two sides shows the ignorance of her parents. While the child looks angry and seems to have looked everywhere (with the draws being opened already). This shows that the family does have transparency and doesn’t constantly cover-up the truth.
In the film "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" directed by Lasse Hallstrom in 1993, one of the main ideas is that of struggle and hardship. This idea is significant to the film because it relates to each character in a different way, making the storyline more interesting. Three different techniques used by Lasse Hallstrom to illustrate the idea of struggle and hardship include Gilberts voice over, the extra close-ups of Bonnie as she climbs the stairs and the double up of dialogue, where Mrs Carver is talking to Gilbert, and Mr Carver is heard tying to entertain their children in background.
The 2009 movie Food Inc. describes the major role that food production plays within many lives. This movie revealed that there is a very small variety of companies that consumers purchase their food from. These few companies actually control what is out on the shelves and what we put into our bodies. These companies have changed food production into a food production business. Many of these companies experiment with ways to create large quantities of food at low production costs to result in an enormous amount of profit for themselves. Some of the production cost cuts also result in less healthy food for the population. Instead of worrying about the health of the population, the companies are worried about what will make them the most money.
Amy Heckerling’s movie Clueless focuses on an upper middle class 16-year-old girl, Cher, who lives in a nice neighborhood with her father and stepbrother, Josh. Cher and her friend, Dionne, take in a new girl, Tai, to help her fit into their high school. All of the major characters in the movie are in adolescence, which ranges from 10-19 years of age. In adolescence, teenagers undergo cognitive and emotional development. According to Piaget’s cognitive developmental theory, adolescents are in formal operational period from 11-20 years of age. During this period, adolescents develop abstract thinking and rational decision making. They experience two aspects of adolescent egocentrism, imaginary audience
This Analysis Paper is an analysis of social problems an issues presented in the film. The film under analysis in this paper is "What 's Eating Gilbert Grape" (1993). The topics used as a lens for analysis are family, social roles, deviance, and social groups. This paper will present numerous examples of these social issue topics as they are displayed in the film.
“There once was a time in this business when I had the eyes of the whole world! But that wasn't good enough for them, oh no! They had to have the ears of the whole world too. So they opened their big mouths and out came talk. Talk! TALK!” (Sunset Boulevard). The film Sunset Boulevard directed by Billy Wilder focuses on a struggling screen writer who is hired to rewrite a silent film star’s script leading to a dysfunctional and fatal relationship. Sunset Boulevard is heavily influenced by the history of cinema starting from the 1930s to 1950 when the film was released.
Young Frankenstein has important visual effects that bring to this film a well-rounded sense of both frivolity and campy thrill. Satirically embodying the older films, Young Frankenstein includes overly dramatic scene transitions such as iris outs, wipes, and “fading to black”, like all classic Hollywood horror films. In classic Hollywood horror, there are lightening flashes, villagers carrying torches and monsters moving in slow motion. The black and white filming technique of Young Frankenstein is one of the most essential elements to creating the film's vintage horror mise-en-scene, providing an air of authenticity to connecting this film to the earlier Frankenstein movies. (Burke quote involving scene:act)
Their uses of eye line match, 180 degree line rule, and ellipsis help tell a grand and comedic adventure. One central form of editing is the rift between live action and animation. This movie seamlessly puts two different movies together and tells a tale of what life would look like if our beloved “toons” were brought to life. This movie used a variety of techniques to provide the audience information about the characters and setting. Eye line match was used constantly throughout the film. One of the first examples of this editing technique was evident within just two minutes of playtime. A baby escaped his crib to reach a stockpile of cookies that are placed upon the fridge. Our first view is looking from the top of the fridge down to the baby, then the camera shifts to what the baby’s perspective is of the cookies. This perspective allows the audience to become a part of the movie and join in on the comedic action taking place within the household. In order to fit into our horror genre, we could make the fridge appear to be hundreds of stories tall and have lightning, ominous clouds, and a foreboding environment of where the cookies are stored. Our second example of eye line match takes place at the thirty-one minute mark when Eddie is bending down to pick up a gag gift dropped by the deceased Marvin Acme. We see him picking up the buzzer then our view traces his view as he
What's eating Gilbert Grape was the movie that I chose to correlate with my media project. The movie was enjoyable and had a very unique perspective to the family system. It wasn't the average Caucasian family that most media outlets portray but instead a highly dysfunctional family. I wanted to do a different approach to the media project and break it down by family members(characters) and then combine the family aspects. Every member of the family has a unique personality and feeds into every aspect of the family system. I will first discuss the movie premise before going into the details of each family member. Then towards the end I will look at the family as a whole unit with various parts.
In this movie, much emphasis is placed on simplicity, spontaneity and directness, so we can focus on the true story without being distracted from the normal every day routines these characters have. A degree of realism is achieved in this movie, because the fact remains that Ben is an alcoholic, although he does drink in extremes where the normal human being would be unconscious, and Sera is a prostitute, so the intense situations and decisions in this movie are reasonably depicted. One of the first scenes is an extreme long shot of the city of Las Vegas, because this sinful city was very carefully chosen as the setting of the story to preserve realism. Full shots are often used to show the protagonists on their daily routine, such as when Ben goes shopping at the supermarket for liquor. Figgis mainly used multiple shots to emphasize the two protagonist’s interactions with each other. The two shot and the over-the-shoulder shot were used often to build a sit...
Sex, love, depression, guilt, trust, all are topics presented in this remarkably well written and performed drama. The Flick, a 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning drama by Annie Baker, serves to provide a social commentary which will leave the audience deep in thought well after the curtain closes. Emporia State Universities Production of this masterpiece was a masterpiece in itself, from the stunningly genuine portrayal of the characters of Avery and Rose, to the realism found within the set, every aspect of the production was superb.
This movie starts off as Jordan Belfort, the main character in the movie, losing his job as a stockbroker in Wall Street. After losing his job, he goes and gets a job in a Long Island brokerage room. In the brokerage room, he sells penny stocks. Thanks to him being aggressive in his selling skills, he was able to make a profit. With the new income, he gives his wife a bracelet and she asked him why doesn’t he go after the people that can afford to lose money, not the middle-class people or lower income people. That is when he gets the idea to get a lot of young people and train them to become the best stock brokers.