Pan’s Labyrinth, an award-winning Spanish film, has garnered awards for its elaborate use of mise-en-scene. In particular, the scene in which the protagonist Ofelia meets the Faun for the first time makes use of various mise-en-scene elements – setting, costume and makeup, lighting, and movement and performance, to trace a series of narrative events that initiate a goal-oriented plot. The scene starts with Ofelia and her mother Carmen, who are sound asleep in the bedroom. Ofelia is suddenly startled awake by the appearance of an unusually large stick insect, which transforms into a green fairy and gestures for Ofelia to follow it. She is led from the house compound into a labyrinth – a maze-like stone structure crowded with trees and roots – and finally emerges in front of a rotunda.
He doesn’t wan to see the vacuum working.] And the woolen mice, and begin to howl [Woolen mice: Large dust balls. When the vacuum works it makes this loud noise like howling] Because there is old filth everywhere [The place is consumed with dirt] She used to crawl in the corner and under the stairs [Crawl: walking on hands, knees and toes In other words, she cleaned everything!] I know now how life is cheap as dirt [Is a simile for: life has no meaning now he lost his wife] And still the hungry, angry heart [Hungry cause he miss and long for her, and he’s angry at the loss. When you loose something often you are angry] Hangs on and howls, biting at air [His heart howling and biting, is a metaphor.
We just wondered the halls and finally we found ourselves in front of a heavy ancient wooden door. I cautiously tried the handle and to my great surprise found it unlocked so we went in and saw three different passaged, I let go of the door and it thudded shut behind us, and I looked back and saw that it was a one sided door! No lock, no keyhole, no handle, we were trapped, and by the looks of it we were in the dungeon, I did not mention this to the others and I said bravely, “lets explore, how about the middle tunnel?” Then Tanya jumped and yelped, “What touched me?” she turned around and saw that she had brushed up against a set of rusted iron shackles bolted to the
The wallpaper, a usually feminine, floral decoration on the interior of walls is used to symbolize the sphere because she is unable to break free from the room, like the narrator who is imprisoned and unable to escape without being strangled by the bars of social expectation. The wallpaper is the thing that the narrator exercises her imagination and identifies with a feminist double figure. When John curbs her creativity and writing, the narrator reverses her initial feeling of being watched by the wallpaper and started actively studying and decoding its meaning. She unties its chaotic pattern and locates the figure of a woman struggling to break free from the bars in the pattern. As her insanity gradually deepens, she is preoccupied with one woman behind the wallpaper and identifies completely with this woman, believing that she is also trapped within the bar-like pattern of the wallpaper.
English Essay 2C/D In order for a mainstream film to be successful and entertaining in today’s Western society, it must conform to audience’s expectations and offer something innovative to satisfy their expectancies. The groundbreaking motion picture Avatar (2009) Directed by James Cameron is a highly regarded and critically acclaimed film due to the films visual detail in the adventure of a paraplegic ex-marine who is sent on a mission to a new planet Pandora, who quickly becomes attached to the planet and the people, ultimately finding a new home. The film is highly renown for its stunning visuals whilst conforms to its mainstream audience expectancies, filmic conventions are used in a typical manner that are habitually seen in action and fantasy films. The film also displays values and attitudes such as traditional family values and capitalistic attitudes. As a Mainstream film Avatar relies heavily on the entertainment value of their audiences in order for it to be successful; Avatar ingeniously conforms to its audience’s expectations whilst enhancing the film with its unique and remarkable visual qualities.
In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury presents technology as integrating so well into everyday life that the characters begin to rely on it. One example, the “electric-eyed snake” tool, is used on Mildred to revive her after she takes a pill overdose. In this scenario, Bradbury could be presenting his characters as openly accepting the new technology into their lives even though they have perfectly good solutions already. The negative image of this piece of technology is emphasised through both its name and description; the term ‘snake’ connoting a feeling of untrustworthiness, whilst it’s grim portrayal of “suck(ing) all of the poisons” out of Mildred’s body with an “occasional sound of inner suffocation” makes its use seem unnatural and undesirable – precisely what Bradbury seems to be persuading the reader to feel about the growing role of technology in his society. Bradbury’s inclusion of
The story goes by and the setting does not change, that is why the woman goes crazier and starts crawling into the wallpaper trying to help get the woman out. It is not to late before she realizes that she is insane and the woman she tries to get out of the wallpaper is only herself. There is also some kind of irony in the story because her husband puts her into that room without activity or work to help her problem. But the irony is that instead of helping her, it just makes the woman more insane because she imagines more things. The setting impacted the character in the story because the woman was in that lonely room the whole time and the woman just felt more insane.
This aids in leading to her mental condition deteriorating even further due to the fact that she must simply put up with her prison. As the story progressives and the narrator spends more of her time in the room the more she becomes accustomed to her prison. Her obsession with the yellow wallpaper that surrounds her constantly grows to an unhealthy addiction. “I’m getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper.
A play in which the theme is made clear early on in the action is 'The Crucible' written by the well acclaimed author Arthur Miller in 1953. Miller, with great skill, clearly shows the main themes very early on with the use of a range of techniques such as key scenes, characterisation and dialogue. The dramatist introduces the theme of greed and vengeance immediately through the use of the narrative technique. We learn that Salem is a theocracy and so people were very repressed and the witch-hunt trials was an opportunity to break free from this. Many people accused those that they had long-held haterds for and those who had a substanstial amount of land.
Then Elizabeth saved him with Jack. Captain Barbosa, he is the bad guy in the movie. The effect of the sound in the movie makes it very interesting and exciting. For example, some sounds that normally were used in a movie, which is from low sound to high sound. That means scary.