Beginning and end scene of OFOTCN
Beginning scene:
Focus points:
A: Italian Neo Realism: Showing real life's injustices
* Raw and authentic realness, I
* Medium wide shots rather than closeups.
* Unexpected and shocking deaths and ambiguous endings
B: French New wave Movement - creating the authenticity of life in Post-war Europe
* Natural lighting
*Spontaneous plot
* Casual, irreverent (lacking proper respect or seriousness) humor
* Frank approach to sexuality
* Jumpcuts
* Characters talking directly to the camera
C: Czech New wave Movement:
* The films often shared a common sense of humour, absurdity, pathos, and sometimes startling surrealism
Beginning scene:
- Pattern of high notes creating an eerie atmosphere, Non-diegetic.
-Panning the bedroom of the patients, including midshots of them sleeping in their beds. The spectator feels as if they are intruding on the scene and seeing the characters in their natural habbitat. Raw and authentic like Italian Neo realism.
-Nurse Ratched enters centre frame, wearing an all black outfit, and consequently shining out distinctly from her all white background. Her predatory appearance and the medium wide shot helps us to be distanced from her character
-longshot of patients being untied from their bed, a sense of restriction is being imposed upon them
-The diegetic music that is shown to be played just as 'medication time' begins creates a defined sense of routine from the beginning of the film
Controversy is created from the start whether the patients mental illness should be taken seriously and the spectator is challenged to create their own opinion:
-The bottles and pills being prepared are in the centre of the frame, acquiring the spectator's attention. These are to be meticulously used and are regarded seriously and importantly, however this is juxtaposed with the joyous classical music in the background which allows the patients medication taking to appear comic. This is irreverant humor.
-Within performance, the patients appear childishly unaware of themselves and taking instructions and medication from a source of authority without questioning it the slightest. The patients being fed pills are filmed from a low angle, complementing his lack of dominance, and that they have no agency. A patient closes his eyes and has the pill placed on his tongue in performance. They are dependent on the staff like a baby is dependent on their parents.
End scene:
- High angle shot of Billy being carried away by the guards whilst in performance animalisticaly screaming, is unpleasant for the spectator to watch and connotes torture suffering of life. This reflects the raw realness of life showing Italian Neo realism inspirations.
-Long shot of Billy lying in his own blood shows unfiltered and disturbingly depressing aspects of life. It is straying from the hollywood era and shows the harsh realness of life.
Films that were being made in hollywood before the war had happy endings and were generic as they churned out so many per year, however this film is an example of how new hollywood was shaped by societal forces such as the rise of counter culture who demanded to see the realness of life.
-Unexpected shocking death of mcmuphy is filmed with low key lighting, controversial to the hollywood era before, who used predominantly high key lighting on a high angle of Mcmurphy lying in bed dead. |The colour palette is blue and melancholy, however as Chief takes the water basin successfully with his strength, heroic music starts to play, connoting a happy ending. It is ambiguous how the story would continue after the ending of the film, however, chief is shown to be a figure of strength who has made the achievement that all of the characters sought to achieve throughout the whole film.
Low key lighting and cold colour palette vs heroic music.
Closeup of chief strangling mcmurphy
Focus points:
A: Italian Neo Realism: Showing real life's injustices
* Raw and authentic realness, I
* Medium wide shots rather than closeups.
* Unexpected and shocking deaths and ambiguous endings
B: French New wave Movement - creating the authenticity of life in Post-war Europe
* Natural lighting
*Spontaneous plot
* Casual, irreverent (lacking proper respect or seriousness) humor
* Frank approach to sexuality
* Jumpcuts
* Characters talking directly to the camera
C: Czech New wave Movement:
* The films often shared a common sense of humour, absurdity, pathos, and sometimes startling surrealism
Beginning scene:
- Pattern of high notes creating an eerie atmosphere, Non-diegetic.
-Panning the bedroom of the patients, including midshots of them sleeping in their beds. The spectator feels as if they are intruding on the scene and seeing the characters in their natural habbitat. Raw and authentic like Italian Neo realism.
-Nurse Ratched enters centre frame, wearing an all black outfit, and consequently shining out distinctly from her all white background. Her predatory appearance and the medium wide shot helps us to be distanced from her character
-longshot of patients being untied from their bed, a sense of restriction is being imposed upon them
-The diegetic music that is shown to be played just as 'medication time' begins creates a defined sense of routine from the beginning of the film
Controversy is created from the start whether the patients mental illness should be taken seriously and the spectator is challenged to create their own opinion:
-The bottles and pills being prepared are in the centre of the frame, acquiring the spectator's attention. These are to be meticulously used and are regarded seriously and importantly, however this is juxtaposed with the joyous classical music in the background which allows the patients medication taking to appear comic. This is irreverant humor.
-Within performance, the patients appear childishly unaware of themselves and taking instructions and medication from a source of authority without questioning it the slightest. The patients being fed pills are filmed from a low angle, complementing his lack of dominance, and that they have no agency. A patient closes his eyes and has the pill placed on his tongue in performance. They are dependent on the staff like a baby is dependent on their parents.
End scene:
- High angle shot of Billy being carried away by the guards whilst in performance animalisticaly screaming, is unpleasant for the spectator to watch and connotes torture suffering of life. This reflects the raw realness of life showing Italian Neo realism inspirations.
-Long shot of Billy lying in his own blood shows unfiltered and disturbingly depressing aspects of life. It is straying from the hollywood era and shows the harsh realness of life.
Films that were being made in hollywood before the war had happy endings and were generic as they churned out so many per year, however this film is an example of how new hollywood was shaped by societal forces such as the rise of counter culture who demanded to see the realness of life.
-Unexpected shocking death of mcmuphy is filmed with low key lighting, controversial to the hollywood era before, who used predominantly high key lighting on a high angle of Mcmurphy lying in bed dead. |The colour palette is blue and melancholy, however as Chief takes the water basin successfully with his strength, heroic music starts to play, connoting a happy ending. It is ambiguous how the story would continue after the ending of the film, however, chief is shown to be a figure of strength who has made the achievement that all of the characters sought to achieve throughout the whole film.
Low key lighting and cold colour palette vs heroic music.
Closeup of chief strangling mcmurphy
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