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Little Evil Mise En Scene

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Little Evil is a horror-comedy movie. Gary’s stepson Lucas had a supernatural power to make horrible thing happen. Gary was told his stepson was the antiChrist and tend to kill him in his sixth birthday at six o’clock in order to save the world. When Gary took Lucas out to the water park, and he decided to save Lucas rather than kill him. The truth was that Lucas was not Satan itself but the portal of evil. If Lucas dies, the world will end. Gary saved the child and the world with his love. The beginning sequence of the movie was shot in a thunderstorm night. The director used backlight to introduce Lucas to the audience. Due to the backlight, Lucas’ face was shadowed, and the audience could not see clear. When Gary moved to live with Locas, he saw Lucas was on the swing. in this scene, the director used backlight again, creating a great contrast between the sunshine and Lucas. By doing this, the movie conveyed a …show more content…

To show the characters’ facial expression, the director mainly used medium close-up shot. These facial expression was not very significant to the whole story. The director only used close-up shot in the water park to show their happiness on the face, and the angry on Lucas’ face when Gary was caught by police. These close-up shots were a symbol of their warmup relationship. The other proximity shots also used throughout the movie, but the medium shot was the most common one in this movie. The director made effort to control the depth of the shot too. The shot was pretty deep when the scenes happened in outside. A deep-space provided the audience a broad background. When a bad guy was making a deal with Gary on the nunnery, which used to hold the cult rite of killing the evil kid, the shot focus changed from background to the foreground, focusing on Gary and the bag guy. At the same time, the bad guy was saying something about the end of the world, which raised the audience’s

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