Pale man scene

Scene
Micro feature
Meaning, response, context
Pale man: 53:36 
.Mise en scene 
  .Cold bluish moon light lighting 
.Warmer lighting on the book (and the book itself) 
.Pale blue clothing
.Frame within a frame 
.Blocking, her back is to the real world 
.The egg timer
.Deep red walls - Blood stained church 
.Old arching architecture (church like) - long shot her framed at the end of the hallway 
.Church imagery - religious connotations
.The pale man and Vidal - similar framing (both powerful and imposing) + The pale man is distant and alien to Ofelia 
.Lavish dinner - like in Vidal's dinner scene 
.Reddish foods + gold cutlery (blood and excess=facism) 
.Grapes - upper class temptation and excess - the grapes = eyes 
.Shoes = holocaust victims - Pale man = Vidal = Fascism = horror and destruction of innocence 
.Fire - hellish  
.Pictures on the wall (fresco) depicting the creature eating and killing children 
.She chooses the wrong door, .She chooses the wrong path being tempted by the dinner (lavish excess) and the knife (violence) of fascism 
.Eating the forbidden fruit (likening her to Eve) 
.Tantalous story w/grapes 
.Bachas god w/grapes 
.Pomegranites = fruitfulness (rosh hashanah) 
.The ends of his fingers are burnt
.Pale man is bald, pale, old, alien, demonic, phalic? - oppressive patriarch  

.Link to Fransisco Goya and the Spanish civil war 
.The pale man = The Catholic church and their facilitating of fascism + St Lucy (story) 
































Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

To what extent do aesthetic qualities contribute to the impact of your chosen film?  Answer this question in detail; when you're back after half term, we'll do it in timed conditions as your assessment. We'll spend half an hour on it. Areas to consider: - mise-en-scene (colour palette, costume, makeup, set design) - cinematography (shots sizes, camera movements, depth of field, lighting) - impact (meaning and response; spectator; context of fascism; ideology of women's role in patriarchal society, male violence; contemporary Mexico context) - at least two key scenes (check pallet) Aesthetic qualities like mise en scene in Pans Labyrinth are used to demonise fascism as to impact the spectator into resenting this ideology, particularly seen in the pale man scene where the ideology of fascism is personified. In this scene Del Toro uses a range of aesthetic techniques as to demonise fascism, beginning with a medium close up at a side profile to the creatu...
Read more

Auteurship

Aesthetics  Themes  Production  Biographical details  Hollywood section  . Core study areas foregrounding context  . Auteur                                                                Auteur: rather than generic products  . How Auteurs determine look and style of a film in relation to the collaborative medium  Consider:  . what extent is it possible to identify the distinctive contribution of creative individuals, within a large industrial production process  . how far it is appropriate to talk about these individuals as auteurs  . how far it is more appropriate consider filmmaking as a collaborative process  e.g. questions  a) compare how far your chosen films reflects the auteurs signature features of their filmmakers...
Read more
B) Compare how far your chosen films reflect the different production contexts “Studios had faces then. They had their own style.” Billy Wilder states how, in  Casablanca , we can see the Warner Bros signature style – notably, the big screen realism of the melodramatic love triangle, the elements of crime, and a charismatic male protagonist… [Having directed over a hundred films at Warner Bros, Curtiz might be considered an auteur in his own right, but there is debate over how much creative control he actually had, with the studios exerting influence over all stages of production.] Elements of Classical Hollywood film form are apparent in the opening of the film, when the spectator is introduced to the protagonist Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart. The sequence begins with an exterior establishing shot of the sign for Rick’s Bar Americain, with the camera then tilting down and tracking in to the bar itself. This technique is a key trope of Classical Hollywood, with a...
Read more