Pulp
Fiction
Particularly the close-ups are very ambiguous as it is much closer than it is
be deemed should be; we see a close up
of the waitresses face at a very odd closeness. This is done to show the
spectator the expression of the
waitress and perhaps allow us to get close to her - both literally and
metaphorically - in preparation for what is soon to follow; it could also
have been used to pull all the focus into her distracting the viewer and the
man and women in the café from what they are talking about.
The entirety of this extract is shot in a
cafe/diner setting and many props are used to suggest this, such
as the coffee cups and jug, this setting could’ve been used to be quite
secretive or more of a social place to chat to each other. Although these props are used to create a typical
diner setting the atmosphere is soon opposed by use of
guns towards the end. Guns are iconographic
of a thriller film and along with the cigarettes, it creates a thriller mood. Both of the characters look really
differently and their characteristics are opposite to each other, for example
to women is sitting upright on the chair wearing a purple/brown t-shirt with a
necklace and is wearing a skirt and seems to have more manners compared to the
man opposite her; he wears a black t-shirt with a loose open Hawaiian shirt
over the open and jeans, he is much more relaxed and slouches or leans against
the window next to him, while smoking a cigarette.
Throughout the whole of the extract only diegetic sound is used, this creates a
relaxed and casual ambience perhaps
to allow the spectator to forget the film is of a thriller genre. Until the end
when music begins, the sound is very contrapuntal
to the thriller genre, although parallel to the setting.
However, when the music does
begin at the end it creates tension, adding to the essence of the thriller
aspect.
Good, you are using terminology in your analysis.
ReplyDeleteAnything from this inspired you, or given you ideas as to what you could do in your own thiller opening?