In The Heat Of The Night Analysis

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The movie was a strong and bluntly written script and captivating performances by Sydney Poitier (Virgil Tibbs) and Rod Steiger’s (Sheriff Bill Gillespie) characters; the color brings emotions, body language and expressions to life. Yes, move can be an escape form of fantasy, history in learning to a person’s reality, but it can also produce the reality, what we failed or ignored to accept in the real world outside the movies. Fantasy might be the thing of the “magical” world, but it is of the world, and the camera is outside the world; which makes the screen the portal a real world that we played no part in. A film is made of photography, if a film script is taken out of the projector, what you see is still photography; it is said that “nothing …show more content…

Well, lines such as: “Virgil, that's a funny name for a nigger boy to come from Philadelphia” says a lot about the uncomfortable such statement would ignite in an audience; another one is the underline respect Tibbs demanded and with cool and collected tone when he responded to Gillespie by saying “they call me Mr. Tibbs. Tibbs calmness, tone and his nonverbal communication such as his body language and facial expressions said so much; the scene alone speaks volume, because it either leaves the audience with desire to see where non spoken game of combat is going to end between both characters. The movie keep you at the edge of your sit, with two options in mind that has nothing to do with being shown in color; one of the option is to either be angry while you watch the tension and racial injustice that was being displayed. The other or the second option is to be open-minded to see the way and or how it ends; the message delivered is In the Heat of the Night (1967). Modernism of this movie did not lose it focus; the goals is to shows two different strong minded individuals who are not only of two different racial background, formed a bond and respect for one another while in the middle of a town full of prejudice against blacks and most especially, the ones who whites people in

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