Well known for his distinctive visual and narrative style, Wes Anderson used his directing qualities to construct Moonrise Kingdom – a whimsical take on a typical romantic comedy. This film tells the story of two misfit children, Sam and Suzy, who want so very desperately to be together but no one else seems to understand. The two pen pals make a plan to run away together which entails using Sam’s wilderness and survival skills to help them live off the land of New Penzance. None of their actions were approved by their families nor other people living in the community. While we follow their journey, we simultaneously witness the elements of mise-en-scène being strategically utilized by Anderson to drive the plot and thematic messages forward. Throughout the film, we see a recurring usage of straight lines and symmetrical order being used to represent the social norm for the time period. This normalness is also shown through the weather conditions on the island and surrounding areas. The deeper we dive into the characters’ journey the more we see …show more content…
Once they re-escaped to be together again, against everyone else’s wishes, the scenes changed in the same way after the first escape. At one point, we see Sam running away from the scouts chasing him through the woods. It is important to notice how angrily everyone else acted as a result of Sam and Suzy’s out-of-the-ordinary behavior. Once Sam runs into Lightning Field, he holds up the rod to be struck so the others would stop chasing him. As he does this, the camera is centered on him, but the rocks he is standing on are very asymmetrical. Also, he raises one hand and not the other which adds another form of asymmetry to the scene. This course of events is very symbolic of society acting out in an almost violent way to an individual doing what is not commonly acceptable or socially
The Soloist (Foster, Krasnoff & Wright, 2008), is based on a true story of Nathaniel Anthony Ayers Jr. who develops psychosis and becomes homeless. In the film, Nathaniel is considered a cello genius who is discovered on the streets by Steve Lopez, a journalist from the Los Angeles Times. Steve was searching for a city story and he decided to write a newspaper article about Nathaniel. Nathaniel always had a passion for music. He was a child prodigy and attended Juilliard School of Music. However, he faced many complications at Juilliard, particularly hearing voices speaking to him. Unable to handle the voices, Nathaniel dropped out and ended up living on the streets of Los Angeles. Steve and Nathaniel develops an unexpected friendship, in which Steve tries to help Nathaniel to live a normal life; having a home, treat his mental disorder, and to fulfil his dream of being a cellist again.
Lines are one of the fundamentals of all drawings. The lines in this drawing represent shape, form, structure, growth, depth, distance, movement and a range of emotions. In “Three Mile Island” Jacquette uses a mixture of horizontal lines to suggest distance and calm, through his use of thick and thin lines he shows delicacy and strength.
The film Friday Night Lights, directed by Peter Berg explains a story about a small town in Odessa, Texas that is obsessed to their high school football team (Permian Panthers) to the point where it’s strange. Boobie Miles (Derek Luke) is an cocky, star tailback who tore his ACL in the first game of the season and everyone in the town just became hopeless cause their star isn’t playing for a long time. The townspeople have to now rely on the new coach Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton), to motivate the other team members to be able to respect, step up their game, and improve quickly. During this process, racism has made it harder to have a success and be happy and the team has to overcome them as a family.
The film Wendy and Lucy, directed by Kelly Reichardt, presents a sparse narrative. The film has been criticised for its lack of background story, and as a short film, much of the story is left to the viewer to infer from what is presented in the plot. However, Wendy and Lucy is able to depict the intimate relationship between Wendy and her dog as well as reflecting more broadly on the everyday, and commenting on the current economic state of the film’s setting in America. This essay will examine how film form contributes to the viewer’s awareness of the story in Wendy and Lucy and allows a deeper understanding of the themes presented. The aspects of mise-en-scene, shot and editing and sound in the film will be explored.
The Great Depression of the 1930’s caused widespread poverty, but the popular culture of the time did not reflect this. People wanted to escape from this harsh time so movies, dancing and sports became very popular. Radios broadcasted boxing matches and boxers became stars. The heavyweight champion James J. Braddock aka “Cinderella Man,” gained popularity. James Braddock gained fame by winning many fights and proving everyone wrong when they said he was too old and couldn’t win.
Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger is a story about a football town. The name of the town is Odessa. It is a small town on the west side of Texas and football is the only thing that matters. Bissinger gives the reader a glimpse of what life is like at an area high school called Permian. Very few towns are obsessed with sports like Permian and Ringgold when it comes to sports programs. In this essay, Permian and Ringgold sports will be compared by their programs and values that they place on sports.
In Night, by Elie Wiesel, a rather prevalent theme of the novel is the idea of silence in place of justice. This is exhibited numerous times throughout the book, usually following a tragic incident where, in a modern society would be answered by punishment of the wrongdoer, but is instead answered by nothing.
All the little lines, and all the bold lines, come together to form a masterful piece, foreshadowing the history of the fish in the lake. Both of the pictures above help to explain visually big, and important scenes throughout the book.
The patterns are an attempt at perfection and then the rules and boundaries established to maintain the society’s way of life. “This town was built on and was maintained in order to keep the innocence. “That in the end is what we have protected here, innocence” -Edward Walker. Mr. Walker presents us with the first pattern in dystopian literature, the attempt at a perfect society. He is telling the other elders in the town why they built this town. We as the audience find out later that all the elders lost a family member because of the violence in the town and this is their attempt at a perfect society. On to the second of the dystopian patterns, it is suggested that Noah got the berries from past the line. The line is drawn from torches and flags hanging along the border of the village. This is one form of boundary put in place, but other boundaries can be seen in the movie such as non-material boundaries such as the mental boundary of the elders telling the people of the village not to
The shot of the firebomb also reflects Hubert’s anti-establishment worldview. Furthermore, another shot pivotal in the discussion of police brutality is when the scene first cuts to protesters innocently dancing. Quickly the scene changes to police acting violently and instigating an attack against the protestors, Kassovitz did this to ensure that the citizens are being shown as oppressed and heroic, the
In the opening scene of Indiana Jones and The Raiders of the Lost Ark we see Indiana Jones’ whip in his pocket, and his hat from behind. The ordinary world for Indiana Jones is not really boring, as he is living as a professor at Oxford, and he is living day by day, but he is constantly being hit on by many of the undergraduates that he teaches in his Archaeology class. We see the undergraduate girl close her eye lid to display a message that said “LOVE YOU.”
Moonlight is a motion picture with a tender, heartbreaking story of a young man's struggle to find himself, told across three chapters in his life as he experiences ecstasy, pain, and the beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality and dealing with his more difficult past. Moonlight is a touching journey of those moments, people and unknown forces that shape our lives and make us the way we are. A major theme of Moonlight is the black male identity and its interactions with sexual identity. The motion picture combines acceptance and love with pain and narrow-mindedness. In it’s simplicity, the movie is a chronicle of the childhood, adolescence and burgeoning adulthood of a young black man growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
It is impossible to talk about a Wes Anderson movie without acknowledging its stunning color palettes and quirky storytelling style. In one of his most exemplary works, Moonrise Kingdom, Anderson uses a warm color scheme that blends bright and desaturated colors that ranges from golden yellow, vermillion red, creamy beige, light brown, to even a hint of teal. His color scheme, which is reflected throughout the film’s props, sets, costumes, title design, and camera filters, effectively evokes nostalgia, establishes the summer-like, dreamy mood of the film, and creates a distinct contrast between the different moral values of his characters. However, in the chaotic stormy escape scene and in the costume of Social Services, the visual design deviates greatly from the film’s primarily warm color palette and instead, immerse their visual elements in a deep, dark blue color to show the contrasts in the mood of the story as well as the attitudes of the characters. Overall, Anderson’s visual
It also takes us by surprise. While we expected him to possibly shit his pants, none of us predicted him to throw himself onto the trashcan. Surprise goes, for that reason, hand in hand with incongruity in this clip. Our protagonist does not act according to our expectations, and we can therefore involve the
In the famous novel and movie series, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, an average teenage girl, Bella Swan, is forced to move from Arizona (where she lived with her mother) to Washington to start an almost new life with her father. She attends a small-town high school with mostly average people, besides one family, the Cullens. As Bella and Edward Cullen get closer, she uncovers a deep secret about him and his family. Their relationship faces many hard challenges and conflicts as the story develops. Both the novel and movie share very similar storylines, however, differ in many ways. From themes to author’s craft, or to relationships, these important parts of the story highlight the significant differences and similarities of Twilight.