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Shame analysis Part 2
Steve McQueen’s Shame is a poetic and detailed character study that is full of aesthetic pleasure but also a meaningful use of form.
Iv already created a short analysis on the opening shot of this film describing the meaning and visual imformation.
This analysis will focus on a scene that, on surface level doesn’t stand out as the most memorable of the film, but I feel is packed with inner conflict and acts as a major turning point in Brandons story.
To put this scene in context and to fully appreciate the weight this scene holds, lets first look at the information that has been shared with the audience so far.
The film does a great job of setting up the pattern of a cycle in Brandons life.
As a sex addict, he is stuck in the cycle of lonleiness, lust, lone observation and sexual gratification. We see this cycle repeated many times through the first 25 minutes of the film, with different women and circumstances but always the same habitual patterns. The opening of the film even starts with Brandon circling his aparatment to physically ill...
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Back to the Fututre – The Econemy of Stortelling
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I recently revisited a childhood favourite of mine, ‘Back to the Future’ and it still holds up as a fun filled adventure, a sci fi masterpiece and at the same time an initimate family drama.
One of the most overloooked achievements of this film is the films opening shot. It manages to convey an incredible amount of information to the audience in a very short time, not to mention the technical execution of the shot its self.
As the film opens we hear the ticking of clocks, tying into the the theme of the overall narrative.
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Tarantino Character creation.
(Informal scenes that reveal character)
A piece of writing advice I receieved recently has led me back to the work of Tarantino. Known for his violence and redeption stories, but also his colourful and unforgettable characters.
The advice surrounded the idea of creating great charcaters and knowing them well enough to write fully realised characters.
The advice was ‘Know who your character are when their alone, and know who they are trying to presents themsleves to be around others.’
Now at first glance this advice seems like ‘Character’ and ‘Characteristaion’ but digging into it a little deeper, the question is really getting at the kind of thinking your character has about themselves, there veiwpoint on the world and how to present themselves within it.
Really were talking about tw...
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Drive – When to present information to an audience.
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In this video I’d like to look at the opening chase in ‘Drive’ and explore what makes this such a cinematic, suspensful sequence work.
Lets look at how information is presented to the audience and why the opening might be the best part of the film.
Prisoners and pulp fiction.
There are several reasons that this set...
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