eden’s film blog

Do you find the ending of the film to be satisfying resolution ?  Why ? it was not a satisfying resolution at all - the audience does not see any conflicts resolved between Llewelyn and Anton How were you expecting the film to end ?   I was expecting there to be an ending fight scene in which either one of them dies and maybe Sheriff Ed Tom Bell gets involved in some way. Also for there to be a triumph on either sides it was quite ambiguous throughout the film as to who would get the money to succeed. Why do you feel the Coen Brothers decided to have their main protagonist killed offscreen , and then avoid a final climax between Sheriff Bell and Chigurh ?  Consider the effect on the audience in terms of expectations of genre and narrative,  and the  themes of  law and order v criminality , good v evil , heroism etc. I think that the reason the Coen Brothers decided to end the film in this way is because they wanted to demonstrate the idea that as peopl...

Task 2- Analysis  Comment on the film by filling in the following grid and copying/linking it to your blog.   Analysis:   Narrative Feature Example Your own example  Establishing protagonist - what information do we find out? How is it conveyed? Unusually, we don’t see the protagonist’s face until the dream section… and then we aren’t sure if this is her, as we’ve only seen her shadow and fragmented body parts: hands, sandalled feet and eye. Creates mystery from the start. What can we tell about her from the first 5 mins?       Establishing other characters - what information do we find out? How is it conveyed? The cloaked, mirror-faced figure is dressed similarly to the protagonist. Is this a dream reflection of her? There are also doubles of the protagonist - or are they the same person? The only other character is the male lover that awakens (or does he?). His behaviour is tender, suggesting intimacy. Are all of the characters actually fragmented re...

David Lynch portrays ordinary aspects of life such as being born as nightmarish through several techniques. At the beginning, the characters movie twitchy and comfortable ways as well as violently and aggressively leading to an unnatural feel. The colour tone and overall look of the picture is also established as murky, dark and hard-to-define, and the characters wear expressive pasty white makeup resulting in a dream-like or nightmarish feel. It's also important to note the manipulation of sound, it creates a sense of fear and threat as the sounds are peculiar and not usually heard; the abnormality of this enhances the discomfort. The parents  are also barking like animals - these primitive emotions add to the abstract nature of the film. Further on in the film, we see the reduction of parent-child relationships to simple gestures, juxtapositions of bodies and understated movements as well as the fact that there is no dialogue aside from then word 'mutt' which makes the ov...

 subjective perspective in film - the audience audience sees events through the leading actor's eyes, as if they were experiencing the events themselves. it shows the influences of the character and emphasises on their own perspective and understanding. objective filmmaking - makes it look as if the narrator is an outsider or third party who watches the proceedings of the scene in sidelines. doesn't focus on personal feelings, or she any biased influences. ways that a filmmaker can immerse you into a characters perspective - film camera can act as a bridge between the relationship of the film actors and the film audiences using for e.g: POV shots, sound, soundtrack, movements, closeups, hallucinations and dreams, various angles, vertigo zoom lines, eye line edits, steady cam follows, inserts of characters thoughts, shaky camera examples - saving private Ryan, Big Fish

set in the American West usually in the period from 1850s to end of the 19th century setting in immense plains, rugged tablelands and mountain ranges conflict between white pioneers and Indians cowboys historical persons in the American West adventure storylines gunslinging desperadoes lawmen violence moral dramas physical courage dilemmas individual and group conflict horsemanship outlaws duels outlaws bandits sheriffs Native Americans shootouts American civil war railways lawlessness of regions wilderness vast landscapes revenge saloons ranches

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