Dylan Hogan A-level Film Studies

The mise-en-scene in the credits suggest that the car that McMurphy is in implies what the meaning of the film is and how McMurphy is in the film and the car represent McMurphy just passes by. The car just comes from nowhere just coming out of the darkness and the lights are really affective to show the affect that McMurphy has on the men and how he changes their lives. Also the mountain represents the men and how they are all cold and struggling and how McMurphy changes that and helps the men to cope with their problems and shows them how to be and act. Introduction to the main character's is different for both characters one is introduced in a positive and bright way and the other is introduced in a dark way and comes across as a dark and gloomy character. When we get introduced to McMurphy it is a bright scene what is really upbeat and is a positive way to introduce a character, we see McMurphy come out of a prison car which implies that he is a low risk and does not need a ...

In the opening scene of this film is quiet strange because it leaves a lot of unanswered questions like How he survived? and How he got down from the building?. This is used to make the scene more affective and to make the audience think more about the scene. Also the purpose of this opening scene is to set the way the film is going to go and to show that Scottie has Vertigo and how the film links back to this and linking to him having Vertigo. Another purpose is to how he gets his fear of heights? and the way in which it happens and where he is? which is in San Francisco. We learn a lot about the main character in this opening scene about him being a flawless character and has a lot of personal problems and about him becoming what he is in the future as a person but also as a cop. The cinematography in this opening scene is used really well they use a point of view shot to show the audience what he can see they then use a contra zoom to show that Scottie has lost his perspective has t...

This film is about a retired police detective who suffers from acrophobia and is asked by a friend if he can come out of retirement to help a friend to follow his wife because he thinks that she is acting different and trying to be someone else. Scottie try's to find out what is wrong with the women and learns that she is controlled by Carlotta Valdez but then ends up falling in love with Galvin's wife which puts a twist in the story. The wife ends up killing herself by jumping from a church so Scottie could not stop her because he is scared of heights, After her death Scottie starts to go a bit mad and starts to think that other women are Madeleine, he meets a women called Judy who reminds him of Madeleine he makes her dress like Madeleine but then ends up finding out that she was the women he fell in love with and that Gavin planned this all along and murdered his wife and that this Judy women was playing he's wife all along. The film started off a little slow and took a ...