How Baz Luhrmann's Interpretation of the Prologue Engages the Audience's Attention and Makes them Want to Watch the Rest of the Film

Overview of the what the film is about (no more than 1 or 2 sentences) and the context of the film (2-3sentences)

The tone is set quickly and effectively. With the book and the movie you “are not being invited into fictional believe and deaths, into the imagination, but into the absorbing reality of flesh and blood”. (McCabe 561).

To what extent does the Mise-en-Scene in ‘Night of the Hunter’ reinforce an understanding of the film's mood, character and narrative themes?

My initial reaction to the film was of utter shock at the brutally raw reality of the film. Upon reflection and commentary from other sources, the film’s simple yet vastly effective filmmaking techniques of developing the explicit and implicit meaning of the film. The explicit meaning, as

At the very beginning of the movie Lurhmann starts by making the audience instantly focus on the screen and nothing else. The camera zooms in onto a TV set whilst an anchor-woman on a news programme presents the synopsis of the story, “two households both alike in dignity...” Because the only object on the screen is one TV set with a black background, the audience focuses only on the news reporter which gives them a better understanding of the movie ahead and it instantly gets the viewers to concentrate hard. This synopsis is then enhanced by words and repeated lines both flashing across the screen and said by the voiceover. Thus, even if the audience cannot

The Luhrmann version opens with the prologue being read by a newsreader on a miniscule television screen. This immediately suggests to the audience that the film is going to be situated in the 20th century. This also tells the audience that this whole affair is a big event - the main fact being that it's a

Overall, the film did exactly what any good dramatic film would do and that is make the audience feel something. The tragedy of the Holocaust has never been fictionally depicted from a German child’s view until this movie. The depiction of how a child who is protected from certain elements war might have thought in that era makes this film unique. The unbelievable conclusion is what makes this film unforgettable. The most important scene in the film is the ending, when Bruno

     At the end of the film, after the hanging of the two murderers , I did

2) What are some of the themes that are central to the film? How have they been communicated?

The opening scene of the film utilises multiple aspects in order to display the hopeless that looms over the dystopian world that the audience is presented with. The film uses a mix of both visual imagery to show this along with verbal features in order to convey this to the audience.

At the beginning of the movie we are shown an opening sequence introducing the main characters in the movie. We are briefly introduced to each character’s situation and the goals they are trying to achieve but we soon

The narrative form exhibited in the opening sequence seems simple at first glance, but actually conveys a multitude of

It is rare a movie inspires me to read the novel it is based on. Here is one occasion. On my first viewing of the

generate moods, and have great psychological affect. This is just as true for the very first series of shots for the film, and perhaps more important since these first shots will give the audience the initial feeling of the film, and set a tone for the picture. The first shot is highly dramatic in its lighting method, and the audience is drawn in immediately to one single detail. A man begins revealing the details of a tragic incident that befell his daughter. We don’t see who he is talking to. There is a spotlight directly above the man, and this is pretty much

Summarizing a movie that is almost an hour and a half into one paragraph is a daunting task, but it can be done! The first scene opens with Brian receiving gifts from the Three Wise Men;