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Escape.Youth
Scene Analysis
August 14,2010



The Virgin Suicides
Sofia Coppola
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1




I. SCENE OVERVIEW
As the Coppola family, Sofia Well verified the good director Lineageof his family. Although she is not a good actor, but we have to admit she is very successful as a director. The movie is about the five Lisbon girls fled in the youth. Just the way they have chosen to escape is suicide. A dark fable,a Inevitable escape,a movie makes people rethink. Story began in a low mature boys. His slowly voice his memories started a film of fleeing youth. The voiceover admitted that he did not understand what did Lisbon sisters think about.As said,You’ve never been a 13 year old girl. We will discuss about the movie lux and trip in the love Stimulated by hormonal.(shot 1)and the quick JUMP-CUT
Montage(Fragment 2) and The air’s exciting music.


II. SHOT ANALYSIS
Shot 1: 45：54-46：14 20 Seconds





Shot Size:medium-close shot

Sound: The moment the music start,we can hear the joy of lux’s heart. the joy is not only relevant, but also a simple love.

Contrast Dominants: lux’s pink pajamas in the dark give us some bright spots,just like see the flowers, love was planted in our brains.Trip’s White shirts are also quite conspicuous. In the dark background, the pink and white highlights the main body very well, attracting the our attention.

Character Movement: The Character ‘s movement direction is always to maintain a certain fixed direction and in the Camera lens is always in the middle, take people's visual angle. After the dialogue,lux open the door hastily, Leave the lens, and trip Stretched out his hand, want to retain something, then leave Trip alone recall the kiss just happened happily.

Character Relationships: In This lens, lux and trip’s relations have obvious Exacerbation.At that moment,lux and Trip are all
stimulated by hormonal. The difference is that lux evolved into love later, but trip evolved into desire.
Camera Movement: There are no outstanding movement, it is a fixed lens.

Camera Angle: The angle of the camera is at an even eye level.
There is no high or low angle. Present the happened things objectively.

Lens Used: A typical fixed-length lens, into a montage sentence. Ensure the Lux and Trip’s movement’s continuity and consistency.Present the process clearly, Coordinate other parts, Highlighted the people’s inner movement.

Depth of Field:The Lippens’s home was empty of lost. At that moment we will focus our attention on lux and Trip,the house was forgotten by lux,Trip and the audience.

Lighting: With a side light, which is behind Trip, when they two tangled this shadow will also appear in each other's body. With the movements light was Sprinkle in their eyes, hair,and body . Not only make the audience feel ambiguous,also shortened the distance between lux and Trip. Lay the foundation for the contrast caused by Trip’s Departure later.
Color Usage: Cool colors, even though the two people have the passion, but the useage of black, repressed the emotions of lux and Trip. Goes well with the whole film. Also in line with the emotional features: depressed and desperate.
Editing Style: The rhythm is more compact when they kissed,and the rhythm slowed down after lux left. Then leave trip alone recaal the warm kiss just happened.
Subtext: All the information that we gather from this scene,the relations between lux andTrip have an obvious deepen , lux and Trip are all trapped in desire.This is also one of the adolescence’s germinating.
Scene dispatching: Select far-view in the front of Lippens’ house, Lay the foundation for lux ang Trip’s flirt next.The Close-range is selected in the Trip’s car, creating a environment of ambiguity, At the same time to limited the space in the car reduced the lux and the trip’s distance, speed up the feelings of the two people.


Fragment 2: 46：14-48：25

When I first time see this scene in THE VIRGIN SUICIDES, I feel cold and so nervous. In my impression, a girl only 13 year old will be naive and do not think too much about life. But Cecilia is totally different.
As the family education of imprisonment, a family of five budding young girls have committed suicide, with a few young spectator point of view, record, recalled after the death of the girls go, memories can not help with sadness and longing. A family tragedy, in fact, some film at the end of the mother as saying her daughter had no shortage of love. Yes, in fact, the girls need to not only love, more free room to grow. Not all of the things that parents can plan their own adolescence, many questions have to face, others can not be replaced. Very cliche to say that cups the birth of the social problems of course, the indifference of the adult world, the media hype, neighbors and suspicion, suicide, just as if they discuss information on the reception table, which looks like the whole world all the same, no one really concern over the psychological growth of young people in subtle physiological changes, but it is these girls the same age who are out the window of the boys, they find the girl in the garbage diary, to find their albums, listen to the same record, subscribe to the same magazine, in contact with their soul. Although the barrier walls, but they are people who best understand the girls. Attraction between boys and girls are kind of instinct, sometimes can not control, but this is not a problem, particularly in Europe and the United States, not having sex during their youth to the community can not accept. Combining guidance is the solution to the problem.
Shot1:5 seconds



Shot types: close-up
Sound: Ambulance sound and background sound
Contrast dominants: sunshine is perfect
Character movement: no movie
Camera movement: no movie
Camera angle: the angle of camera is like look up to the tree. And look at the sunshine
Lighting: no lighting only sunshine
Colors: a little red color.
My idea: this scene is very good to start the move .It is very beautiful. People want to see again.
Shot 2: 3 seconds

Escape.Youth

Scene Analysis

August 14,2010

The Virgin Suicides

Sofia Coppola

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

I. SCENE OVERVIEW

As the Coppola family, Sofia Well verified the good director Lineageof his family. Although she is not a good actor, but we have to admit she is very successful as a director. The movie is about the five Lisbon girls fled in the youth. Just the way they have chosen to escape is suicide. A dark fable,a Inevitable escape,a movie makes people rethink. Story began in a low mature boys. His slowly voice his memories started a film of fleeing youth. The voiceover admitted that he did not understand what did Lisbon sisters think about.As said,You’ve never been a 13 year old girl. We will discuss about the movie lux and trip in the love Stimulated by hormonal.(shot 1)and the quick JUMP-CUT

Montage(Fragment 2) and The air’s exciting music.

II. SHOT ANALYSIS

Shot Size:medium-close shot

Sound: The moment the music start,we can hear the joy of lux’s heart. the joy is not only relevant, but also a simple love.

Contrast Dominants: lux’s pink pajamas in the dark give us some bright spots,just like see the flowers, love was planted in our brains.Trip’s White shirts are also quite conspicuous. In the dark background, the pink and white highlights the main body very well, attracting the our attention.

Character Movement: The Character ‘s movement direction is always to maintain a certain fixed direction and in the Camera lens is always in the middle, take people's visual angle. After the dialogue,lux open the door hastily, Leave the lens, and trip Stretched out his hand, want to retain something, then leave Trip alone recall the kiss just happened happily.

Character Relationships: In This lens, lux and trip’s relations have obvious Exacerbation.At that moment,lux and Trip are all

stimulated by hormonal. The difference is that lux evolved into love later, but trip evolved into desire.

Camera Movement: There are no outstanding movement, it is a fixed lens.

Camera Angle: The angle of the camera is at an even eye level.

There is no high or low angle. Present the happened things objectively.

Lens Used: A typical fixed-length lens, into a montage sentence. Ensure the Lux and Trip’s movement’s continuity and consistency.Present the process clearly, Coordinate other parts, Highlighted the people’s inner movement.

Depth of Field:The Lippens’s home was empty of lost. At that moment we will focus our attention on lux and Trip,the house was forgotten by lux,Trip and the audience.

Lighting: With a side light, which is behind Trip, when they two tangled this shadow will also appear in each other's body. With the movements light was Sprinkle in their eyes, hair,and body . Not only make the audience feel ambiguous,also shortened the distance between lux and Trip. Lay the foundation for the contrast caused by Trip’s Departure later.

Color Usage: Cool colors, even though the two people have the passion, but the useage of black, repressed the emotions of lux and Trip. Goes well with the whole film. Also in line with the emotional features: depressed and desperate.

Editing Style: The rhythm is more compact when they kissed,and the rhythm slowed down after lux left. Then leave trip alone recaal the warm kiss just happened.

Subtext: All the information that we gather from this scene,the relations between lux andTrip have an obvious deepen , lux and Trip are all trapped in desire.This is also one of the adolescence’s germinating.

Scene dispatching: Select far-view in the front of Lippens’ house, Lay the foundation for lux ang Trip’s flirt next.The Close-range is selected in the Trip’s car, creating a environment of ambiguity, At the same time to limited the space in the car reduced the lux and the trip’s distance, speed up the feelings of the two people.

Shot Size:medium shot to over shoulder shot

Sound:This fragment begin with a synchronism,in the first shot,Mr Lisbon was trancing in the desk, but he sound is trip’s footsteps, Played a good role to connect next shot and character’s movement.

Character: Mr. Lisbon’s feeling of Trip was very contradictory. When Mr. Lisbon asked about football, his face shows that he is quite satisfied with Trip.But due to the love and protection of lux,and the ways of Mrs Lisbon’s education, make Mr Lisbon feel too embarrassed when he face Trip. Fast clip this lens make the embarrassment and conflict looks well.

Camera Angle: The subjective lens of Mr Lisbon was shooting from the top,but the subjective lens of Trip was shooting from the bottom. Reflects the different momentum between the two people. Psychologically, Mr. Lisbon is a cowardly,love lux but can’t resist Mrs Lisbon’s education. Trip is a young high school students, some things he think is righteous.

Camera Movement:Move between Trip and Mr. Lisbon,present the two people’s relationship and Trip’s restless.

Lens Used: There are some short quick scenes, Objective lens mixed with the director’s subjective impression. Significantly accelerated the pace of the story, enhanced the movie’s tight feeling.

Lighting:Use 45 degree side light,this is the best light to describe character. Revome the the unnatural feeling of Trip and Mr. Lisbon’s dialogue.

Color Usage:warm color. Because the film is punctuated by memories, so use old color. The story of 70 years should have 70 years colors. The warm colors are used to recall brutal youth with wonderful memories. Memories of the boy's is worthwhile to recall with warm colors.

Editing Style: Use the positive and negative lenses to play fast clip,present the relations of Trip and Mr Lisbon.They are contradictory with lux.But Mr Lisbon prefer Trip,but not Mrs Lisbon.

Subtext: Mr. Lisbon was contradictory with wether shoule allow lux to take the party.As a father,he want to make his daughter happy.But also he want to protect her daughter not to be hurt. As a husband, he would like to recognize his wife.All the things makes Mr Lisbon contradictory.

She was born in1990 in a village, and there are many brothers and sisters in her family, because of the traditional concept of her parents, her parents do not agree her to school, she looked at her brothers back from school every day, she was so envious, due to the desire for knowledge, the rest of each working days she goes to the school listening to the teachers under the windows , after working,she picked up the old books and newspapers threw by others from the bin,she studied all by herself at home, and finally she got 18 , the age can participate in college entrance, she want to participate in college entrance examination, so she requests her parents, but her parents do not agree, so she kept working day and night, earn money and save the entry fee, and eventually admitted to an famous university changed the destiny of her life.

Duration:

1:13;30—1:17;15

Overview

It’s the middle part of the movie, the director arranges a dispute here, it’s the first and the only altercation between Lenny and Natalie in this film. In this part, Natalie walk into the house, first hide all the pens in the room to her bag, then get angry with Lenny, humiliate Lenny’s wife. As a result, Lenny goes mad, hit badly on Natalie’s face and knock her on the ground, Natalie stop shouting, walking out the house with blood on her face and the bag within pens, then sit in the car. After watch Natalie walking out, Lenny try to find a pen to make a note about Natalie, but all the pens are in Natalie’s bag. With the sound that Natalie close the car’s door, Lenny’s disease attack him again.

Contrast Dominants:

Shot Type

Master shot

Camera movement:

Flowing Natalie.

Camera angle:

Eye level

In this scene, Natalie come into her house, Lenny see her, from his eyes, we can find he doesn’t know Natalie at all, just pretend to care about Natalie. Here, camera changed, looks like from Lenny’s angle, let audiences see what Lenny sees, feel what he feels.

After Natalie come in, though Lenny’s eyes, we can see Natalie pretend to look outside the window and close all the curtains, a few shots built up a smart person immediately. And camera change to Lenny.

Contrast Dominants:

Shot Type

Master shot

Camera angle:

Eye level

Lenny is curious on what Natalie doing and try to care about the woman he doesn’t remember. As the arrangement of the director, Lenny looks so relax, because he doesn’t remember he is the right one who kill Dodd’s partner and take the money. Director create a special sense, one side is irritable Natalie, another side is peaceful Lenny, just like the calm before the storm, something big will happen immediately.

Contrast Dominants:

Shot Type

closeup

Sound:

Some soft, oddly music

Camera movement:

Move with Natalie’s hands

Camera angle:

Eye level

Before Natalie goes crazy, she collect all the pens in the room, camera flowing Natalie’s hands, director want to telling us what’s Natalie doing now, let us think why Natalie do that and make us keep on watching this film, and let what happen next is logical.

Contrast Dominants:

Shot Type

Master shot

Camera movement:

Jump cut between Natalie and Lenny, and the camera is waving.

Camera angle:

Eye level

From this scene, Natalie finally get mad, she looks like lost her patient. First, she crates a story about Jimmy and Teddy, then want Lenny kill Dodd and ever pay for it. Natalie changes here, make everyone doubt, director let us guessing again: what’s Natalie really is?

Contrast Dominants:

Shot Type

Close up

Camera angle:

On shouder

In this part, Natalie start humiliating Lenny’s wife, camera jump cut between two roles constantly, audiences can feel the tension in this moment. Each time camera jumps, we can find Lenny getting more anger, he try hardly on control himself, a storm is coming.

Contrast Dominants:

Shot Type

Close up

Camera angle:

On shoulder

Lenny understands Natalie is a bad women, but unlucky, he lose his pen. Director plan this part, let us know Natalie is a smart and evil person. but we still feel unsure about why Natalie doing this.

Contrast Dominants:

Shot Type

Mater shot

Sound:

Some soft, oddly music again.

Camera angle:

Eye level

In this scene, Lenny hit Natalie, all the mysteries that director had set is clear, audiences contact every clue, director grasps audiences’ nerve successfully. Audiences can have a shot break, and waiting for next storm coming.