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Comparing Double Indemnity and Do The Right Thing
The document compares the use of cinematography and mise-en-scene in Double Indemnity and Do The Right Thing. It discusses how techniques like wide shots, high and low angles, lighting, and expansive frames are used to define characters and communicate themes through barriers and entrapment. For Do The Right Thing specifically, Spike Lee employs canted angles and wide angle close ups to signify underlying social tensions and disruption.
Comparing Double Indemnity and Do The Right Thing
- 1. Comparing Double Indemnitywith DoThe RightThing The Aesthetics of Cinematography and Mise-en-Scene
- 2. Comparing Double Indemnitywith DoThe RightThing What is it about about the aesthetics of these establishing shots that signify key themes and communicate messages and meanings to the spectator?
- 3. Comparing Double Indemnitywith DoThe RightThing Wide shots, high and low angles are used to demonstrate how locations define the characters
- 4. Comparing Double Indemnitywith DoThe RightThing The full width and depth of the frame are used to communicate barriers and distances between characters.
- 5. Comparing Double Indemnitywith DoThe RightThing Low key lighting is used to communicate darker themes and create verisimilitude.
- 6. Comparing Double Indemnitywith DoThe RightThing Expansive frames and mise-en-scene combine to trap characters within their surroundings. Both films demonstrate a high level of film ‘poetics’.
- 7. Comparing Double Indemnitywith DoThe RightThing Spike Lee develops the form by repeatedly using canted angles and wide angles close ups to signify the disorder/disruption that simmers beneath the surface.
- 8. Comparing Double Indemnitywith DoThe RightThing Spike Lee develops the form by repeatedly using canted angles and wide angles close ups to signify the disorder/disruption that simmers beneath the surface.
- 9. Comparing Double Indemnitywith DoThe RightThing Spike Lee develops the form by repeatedly using canted angles and wide angles close ups to signify the disorder/disruption that simmers beneath the surface.