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Mise En Scene In The Film Written On The Wind

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The week that we watched Written on the Wind we were discussing Mise en Scene which is what appears in front of the camera. In this film there was an immense amount of lighting and color used to emphasis ironic details. The mise en scene portraying characters and setting the mood for each scene. The director wanted to direct or attention to certain details in the film that we would have otherwise overlooked. He also used different ironic details to describe or define people in the film. Starting the movie with Kyle’s untimely death sets the mood for the movie with the backdrop of the title which gives the audience a foreshadowing for what is about to take place in the movie. The director’s use of lighting and mise en scene in this film is …show more content…

For instance, Marylee is an eccentric character who from the beginning we can tell is wistful and vibrant. In order to portray this her clothes are bright colors, her car is red, and other objects around her are vivid colors in order to express her personality and sexuality. Through the use of shadows and different lighting effects the director is able to set the mood for each scene. When Marylee and Lucy have a conversation the room is illuminated and the lighting is put on them from all angles so that we get a clear view of their faces. Whereas when Marylee is speaking to Mitch and coming on to him the lighting is darker, setting the mood for the rejection that Mitch gives her. This signals that her attempts at seduction are dead with Mitch even though we know Marylee is a sexual person. That is until towards the end of the movie when she is first shown at the river fawning over her memories of Mitch and her childhood and then after the death of her father and brother she becomes more womanly. Her clothes become less vibrant and the mise en scene suggest that her personality has changed as well. There are uses of phallic objects in the mise en scene to emphasize the point of Kyle verses Mitch’s manhood and manliness. They are also used to point out Marylee’s sexual

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