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Jean Renoir Rules Of The Game

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This Image comes from director Jean Renoir film Rules of the Game. During this period in history director, Renoir was one of the few directors to truly understand anything that had to deal with the cultural rules of the French lifestyle. So, when he wrote this film he decided to implement a rebellion against; Comedy of manners: “a satire of the upper class is no longer considered interchangeable with treason”. When this film was first shown, it caused near-riots not because of the things that were written to show the French in a bad light but, because Renoir cast a Jewish actor to play the main character. Surprisingly this just furthers Renoir point about French culture because, of the anti-Semitism of French culture. If you don’t know Semitism means hatred against Jews. …show more content…

Renoir develops this unique shot by using a technique called deep focus which falls within the mise en scene of “Frame Composition.” Deep focus means a technology that shows objects in the front, middle, and back of the frame with equal clarity. The reason Renoir does this is because he wants to create a fuller depiction of the action going on in the shot for the viewers. You first see Octave and Lissette at the front of the image as the centerpiece of the shot. Instead of making it a shot where Octave and Lissette escape to someplace to have a private conversation to get away from the hustle of the world to live freely in this weird ambiguous culture that they have going on. Renoir placed a vague blur in the background to prevent any possible distraction. In that background, you have a servant walking up on the left of Octave and Lisette as if something's he was going to have a going to have a conversation with Octave. Then directly to the right of them you a staircase with a mirror and some candles with creating plans for later action in the film

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