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viernes, 21 de octubre de 2011

Representation of characters: 'Detective Mills'/Brad Pitt

The modern masculinity of Brad Pitt differ from the traditional/old one of the 'Marlboro Man', who looks like a hard-working man, while Pitt is much more attractive because, apart from being good looking, he has a new fashion style: he's a cool man that, for example, in the 1990 advertisement that made him famous, he takes photos and taunts of a kind of 'Marlboro Man' while he hangs out with a beautiful woman.

This is also seen in the 'Seven' scene, with 'Somerset' (Morgan Freeman) visiting Pitt's house, and playing the roll of the 'Marlboro Man', due to that he has a gun, he's alone when talking, etc..

lunes, 3 de octubre de 2011

Noir Conventions in Seven

Elements

- colorless (dark ambient/atmosphere because of the city decay) lighting, which suggests the technological environment, but also the cold and unfeeling reality.
- part of police office (building) Dutch angle, long (establishing) and low shot.
- crime in urban place: world full of evil.
- non-diagetic sounds.
- library stands out by green lamps.
- also, the violin music produces these effects mentioned before.
- jump cuts from the two detectives to show what they were doing.
- the rain is heard but not seen.