Million Dollar Baby Essay

In the award-winning film ‘Million Dollar Baby’ the director, Clint Eastwood, uses many significant scenes throughout the film such as the final fight scene ‘dirty fight’ to present themes and ideas to the audience, Clint Eastwood uses the four aspects of camera work, sound, dialogue and lighting. To do this, Clint Eastwood utilizes a variety of important film techniques to present these ideas, which help to create emotion and craft the scene. One of the most important scenes in ‘Million Dollar Baby’ which uses a lot of these techniques is the scene ‘dirty fight’.

An important technique used in the scene ‘dirty fight’ is the camerawork. During the scene ‘dirty fight’ While Maggie lies—barely conscious—we see the use of a P.O.V shot fixated on a whirlpool of lights, indicating to us that Maggie was unable to continue the fight. Through this, the audience felt a wave of emotions like sadness and sympathy as we see she was robbed of all her hard work.

is when Billie the “Blue Bear” is making an entrance to the ring. The music we hear during her entry is overpowering and aggressive in this part of the scene, which makes the audience feel intimidated by her. This example of music also uses foreshadowing to hint to the audience about the Billie’s fighting style and what the outcome of the fight will be. Another example of Music was moments before Maggie received the deadly left hook. The sudden and energetic music that played, contrasted with the music that was playing during Billie’s entry which, revealed to the audience that the foreshadowing from her entry came true. This created interest in the audience and engaged them closer to the movie to lead them to the Climax and turning point of the movie. Overall, the mood that was created by the examples of Music was upbeat and aggressive and used the film techniques foreshadowing and Contrast to engage the