Essay On The Airport Scene

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Director Jonathan Demme filters the classic Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant vehicle Charade through the influence of the French New Wave in this romantic thriller. Regina Lambert (Thandie Newton) is on vacation without her husband Charlie (Stephen Dillane), art dealer, and has been having second thoughts about her marriage. She meets Joshua Peters (Mark Wahlberg), a attractive and charming American, who seems quite taken with her while on vacation. Regina arrives at the airport and encounters Joshua again. In the airport scene the editor (Carol Littleton) combines numerous types of shots to create this illusion for you, the audience, of flying around them as they talk. The scene starts a tracking backwards close up shot of Joshua straight into an over the shoulder shot to start the conversation. From there the editor cuts in to a panoramic revers shot between Regina and Joshua but still having the camera circling counter clockwise giving the feeling of dancing around the two actors. Regina returns home to find that her apartment was thoroughly ransacked. Startled by police investigat...

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