BIG EYES Movie Essay

This film is called BIG EYES, it is about an artist, Margaret, who has her own unique pieces with children who have big eyes. She meets another fellow “artist” named Walter Keane and they end up falling in love and starting a business together. Little does she know that he was using her paintings to gain money and publicity to his name. Margaret became the woman in the background who provided the paintings while Walter had the name and the fame. The scene that I chose to analyze is the one where she finds out that Walter gave himself credit as being the artist of the big eyed children paintings. He told everyone at the bar that he painted them himself and when Margaret walks into him saying that, they walk off to the corner of the bar and start

In addition, this scene is made so that the audience can see that Margaret is cornered and in a closed off part of the room. This shows Margaret as a woman who is vulnerable and how Walter holds power over her making him dominant. This foreshadowing their relationship and she lets him do what he wants to do. Furthermore, the scene continues and Walter’s attention is turned to a rich Italian guy, he leaves Margaret and we can see her in the background, she appears smaller in the camera frame. In the beginning of the scene, Margaret took up bigger shots in the frame, but as he continues talking to her, she begins to appear smaller. This represents her place in their relationship and in her life with him if she continues to be with him. Margaret becomes more and more weak, and Walter becomes more and more dominate. When Walter leaves her to get the attention of the rich Italian guy, it also shows how Walter is as a character and he is money hungry while Margaret is unwilling to speak out and talk back to him. She is too scared to take her life back. The camera dollies into a close up of her side profile to show her expression and feeling of wanting to admit that she’s the artist but she is unable to say anything. This scene in terms of composition has the rule of the thirds because it shows Margaret being in the center with the waiter and the Italian guy on the other two sides. This adds suspense to the scene as