ideological analysis scenes

Joker ~ 33.40 to 36.44 ~ summary of scene: Arthur shoots the guy on the subway stairs then runs away to a nearby public bathroom and he starts dancing, once he gets this confidence, he storms to his apartment building and knocks on the door of his new neighbour and starts kissing her.

Moonlight ~ 1.18.52 to 1.21.30 ~ summary of scene: Black appears at the diner that Kevin works at and waits for him to notice that it’s him. Kevin then realises its Chiron (Black).

the influence of the French new wave on new Hollywood

  1. The New Wave (French: Nouvelle Vague), also called the French New Wave, is a French art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s. The movement was characterized by its rejection of traditional filmmaking conventions in favour of experimentation and a spirit of iconoclasm.
  2. Filming techniques included fragmented, discontinuous editing, and long takes. The combination of realism, subjectivity, and authorial commentary created a narrative ambiguity in the sense that questions that arise in a film are not answered in the end. One of the key characteristics of the French New Wave is its rejection of past filmmaking, instead swapping in more experimental and avant-garde techniques.
  3. Scorsese and Coppola, both who rose to fame in the 1970s, which is sometimes referred to as the American new wave, have mentioned the influence these French filmmakers had on their artistic and production style.

mis-en scene in Casablanca

props in Casablanca are mainly glasses of expensive alcohol, and a lot of money. mainly the sheets of paper with the boarding passes on them for people to leave. and during the movie there is loads of people smoking cigarettes, through out the whole movie they always had one in their hand.

the costumes in Casablanca are very 1940s and all the women wear nice long skirts with a hat, the men were always wearing suits to show their wealth.

sets in casablanca are in always fancy bars or in posh looking houses in nice town and clean streets, they use alot of nice areas that are large and have a rich type of vibe to it.

American film analysis

moonlight 41.31- 44.35

summary of the scene- in this scene Chiron’s mother is begging Chiron to give him all the money he has because she wants to buy drugs.

joker- 7.42- 9.24

summary of this scene- in this scene, the joker is sat on a bus doing silly faces to a small child and then everyone on the bus gets uncomfortable and he starts to uncontrollably laughing and shows his disability badge.