Mise-En-Scene In The Graduate And Jaws

Film Analysis #2 Essay
In this essay, I claim that the use of Mise-en-scene in The Graduate (1967) and Jaws (1975) suggests that a major issue within these films is the difference in social class and background. Class can be portrayed in many different way some based on gender, family, and ethnicity. Being that each film has a variety of different characters and how there portrayed in plot shows each character coming with different standpoints and backgrounds based on the situation that their faced with. The Graduate (1967) it tells a story about Ben a recent college graduate that unsure about what he wants in life and coincidentally is seduced and has an affair with an older married woman then falls in love with her daughter Whereas Jaws

Both films portray individualism and how being from a different background of up bring can affect the way you act and think in a situation or event that can occur. For The Graduate (1967) since this film was made around the late 60’s a change in gender role was forming and the traditional way of thinking was becoming outdated. Ben was fully aware of these aspects as soon as he came back home from college he didn’t want to live his life as a “Plastic” and conform himself into that social class and lifestyle even though that’s all he was brought up in he wanted something more and new which lead him into having an affair with a married

The scene depicts the value of individualism in a suburban setting in the late 60’s. Ben’s family is like any other middle class life from the way they are dress in their clean dress shirts and freshly ironed jackets with a basic neck tie to match nothing the sticks out from the normal wear and concepts that known in their lifestyle. Ben’s parents just want him to have steady job and live a “normal” peaceful life as a plastic. The conversation with Ben and his father, Ben facial expression as almost blank like everything that his father is telling him is going through out ear and out the other not really taking notes to what would be the best thing for him to in his life. Ben was pretty much in a crossroad in what he “should do and what he wants to do. Also, his father head is taking up most of the shot but still in focus on Ben’s facial expression to his father words. This scene is also portrayed in closed setting only showing Ben sitting next to the fish bowl and his father looking to be more superior in over the shoulder giving the body language to seem almost tense and