A memory inside a memory, Memento is a complicated head spinning adventure. Leonard is determined to avenge his wife's murder. However, unable to remember anything that happens day-to-day due to a condition he sustained, short term memory loss, he has to write himself note after note that still don't mean anything after he falls asleep. The film goes back in time to reveal each little bit of the puzzle as he tries to find out the person who killed his wife and makes the audience feel just as confused as he is. The narrative closely follows a phone call Pearce has in which he talks about Sammy Jankis a former client of his who he believed had the same condition. The film takes an unexpected twist as the two characters have a lot more in common than is initially put across.

The one minute scene that I choose is from 1 hour and 9 minute to 1 hour and 10 minute. This one minute scene is the last part of Leonard answering the phone. This is a Black & White scene shows that the story of Sammy which Leonard is talking about is not real.

This is when Leonard answering the phone and talking about Sammy’s story, he is just taking off the pledget on his new tattoo. In this black & white scene, the shot type is close up. It shows this hided tattoo to give audiences the feeling of mystery, to let audiences guess what Leonard wrote on this tattoo.
The lighting in black & white scene is soft, this may show that Leonard’s emotion is not variation very much when he is telling stories.


This scene is also uses close up shot type. This time, film shows us the tattoo “NEVER ANSWER THE PHONE” when Leonard is answering the phone. Leonard has short memory lost that is the reason why he uses tattoo to remind all important things to himself. This tattoo is a milestone of this movie. Before this scene, audiences know lots of information of Sammy and the story in Leonard’s limited memory. From now, audiences start to question that who is on the other side of this phone? Also from this milestone, music has started, it shows us there are something gonna happened.

In this close up shot, Leonard start asks who is on the other side of this phone. From Leonard’s eyes, audiences can see scare very clear. In this shot, the actor’s performance brings us the felling of Leonard very easily.


After Leonard’s asking, the person who is on the other side of this phone rings off this calling. Then the camera angle change to looking down. It shows that Leonard is confused and small now, because he knows nothing about that person who was calling him and told lots of things about Sammy to him in a situation that he can not answer ant phones. From now, the music started getting louder to show the fear of Leonard. The soft light that is only from the window also shows Leonard’s feeling to audiences.

Kill Bill
Scene analysis


Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Uma Thurman / Vivica A. Fox /Daryl Hannah / David Carradine
Duration:01:10:00-01:11:04

Mise-en-scene This is scene is about the revenge of the protagonist. The scene is set in the japans club where many people were entertaining. all of a sudden, the Bride (played by Uma Thurman) who seizes the Sophie fatale(played by Julie Dreyfuss) shout O-Ren Ishii(played by Lucy Liu) out and this is the first time they met each other after four years .then there will be lots of fighting frame.
Character Costume:
Protagonist :From the Bride Clothes, the whole style is yellow, which is really easy to remind audiences of the famous martial arts actor (Bruce Lee ).because bride’s clothes is pretty similar to the Costume that Bruce lee wear in the film named 《Game of Death》. In many people memory ,Bruce Lee always is the protagonist and has excellent KongFu. Bride wear this clothes, which is obvious that bride is a protagonist with excellent KongFu.
Antagonist: From the color of the clothes ,the O-Ren Ishii(played by Lucy Liu) wear the white Japanese kimono .and other people around her wear the black clothes, which has big contrast. Exserting the O-Ren Ishii who is antagonist. and other is her underling.

Lighting:
In this scene, High-key Lighting is used in the most time except for this scene above this is not really bright light and has a little bit red color light on the scene ,which has bloody and horrible feeling and suit the recollection.

Sound and Music:
This scene includes the diagetic Sound and non-diagetic Sound, for the non-Diegetic sound there is two types background music one is the feeling like ready for battle ,another music that appear when both of the character stare each other fill with revenge feeling .For the diagetic Sound protagonist said : you and I have unfinished business .”to shout O-Ren Ishii(played by Lucy Liu) out

Character relationship:
Firstly, The Bride shout out O-Ren Ishii and seizes the Sophie fatale who is underling of O-Renishii ;, then when they see each other .From Bride’s eyes filling with revenge, and then cut Sophie fatal hand .From this it is easy to understand Bride and O-renishii is enemy rather then friend.

Editing:
The first frame,At the beginning of the scene, when the bride shout out O-RenI shii , the screen is split to show each of the scenes at the same time, it make the atmosphere more tension and show that is the beginning of battle. The second frame,There are two frame combined in one, that also make it more tension ,the reason is that from this shot people can understand how the Bride hate O-Ren Ishii .Seeing O-Ren Ishii can make the Bride thing of the past evens.













Cinematography
Shot type: Extreme close up
It can make the the atmosphere more tension. Extreme close up can describe the Bride of the inner activities .audience can know how she hate O-Ren Ishii from eyes









Extreme long shot
It can show how many underling O-Ren Ishii have. .which can show that O-Ren Ishii have power and influence










Camera angle:
In this scene, the high angle and low angle are used.The low angle is not only the bride’s visual angle and also show the O-Ren Ishii look powerful








Camera movement:
Zoom in
The scene is used,this can show the bride hatred more and more intense, which can increase the tension










Depth of field:
It use Landscape focus .where the background is clear and foreground is blurred. All of this is used to make audience focus on that .












And this is the background is change from blurred to clear. All of this is used to make audience focus on that .










Deconstructed meaning:
The meaning of the whole sequence is to show the fist meeting of them in four years.

Scene Analysis

Lost In Translation

3587, Hyeonjin

Scene overview

I chose the last 2 scenes, scene 117, and 118 (01:33:48-01:35:55, 2mins and 7secs). In these scenes, the male protagonist finds the female protagonist on his way to go back to his country, and he stops his car and goes to see female protagonist for a while and then, keeps going his way behind the scenery of Tokyo.

Scene Analysis

Mise-en-scene

Sets of these scenes are on the street for scene 117, and on the road for scene 118. These two sets tell us that female protagonist still stay on the street, in Tokyo, and male protagonist is on the road to leave Tokyo. And Sofia Coppola, the director of this movie, used dark tone of colour, according to lecture file of AIT's introduction to cinema class, it says it is grey colour but, I would like to say it is dark blue which is one of director's favourite colours, to express two protagonists' loneliness and also the sets also lonely place for them because of different culture and language.

Also, Sofia used natural light to keep her dark tone of colour and natural mood of these scenes. And about actor's performance and costume, male protagonist wear a suit and female protagonist wear casual style of cloth because this two types of fashion style show that different social position between two protagonist so that although they are love each other, there is wall they have to brake down to be together besides, despite they are being separate each other in these scenes, they smiled and they do not act like they are sad through this two protagonists' act, we can guess some hopeful future between them the director does not show us clean ending story though.

About sound, there is only one diegetic sound is used in these two scenes, male protagonist said 'alright.' When he gets on his car again, and except for this diegetic sound, there is only one non-diegetic sound is used as background music, 'just like honey' by 'Jesus And Mary Chain' and again, from this music's calm and peaceful mood and lovely lyrics, although some people say that their music is psychic and they had some violent history about some of their performances, we can guess that something hopeful future between two protagonists.

Cinematography and editing

Shot

In these 2 scenes, the most mused 3 shots are Close-up, medium shot, and long-shot but I would like to focus on medium shot because I think medium shots in these scenes are used in uncommon way of its normal purpose. I learned that long-shot is used to describe actor and environment around actor and close-up is used to show some specific description such as actor's emotion but, in these scenes, I can see both functions in medium shot I think it is because of that since the two protagonists are separating each other, Sofia Coppola may need some environment around protagonists in a dynamic shot but, she also need to catch protagonists' emotional acting in a same time to express that although they are separating, they still can smile each other because they know some good future will wait for them.

Movement

About movement in these scenes, I think there are two movements were used Hand-held and panning also, these two movements are shown at the same time in scene 118 when the road to go back to male protagonist's country was shown. The reason why these two movements were used is that we can know protagonist is reminding about time he has spent in Tokyo with panning and since he left female protagonist in Tokyo, he misses her but he and she still have their own legal family so, it is not so easy for them to focus on only their love. Through panning and hand-held, we can see these kinds of reminding and protagonist's unstable mind.

Angle

n/a

Depth of field

We can see several times of using about shallow focus in these scenes easily because main object of these scenes are those two protagonist so that focusing on them make audience's attraction to them easily and also, by using shallow focus, director can say something to audience that two protagonists are isolated from their environment, Tokyo, so they are lonely.

Editing

For the record, I think I should say that there is no editing in these scenes but I would like to say that there are two editing skills in scene 118, Long-take and montage but half of them each. During I observe scene 118 over and over again, I found that although shots are changed irregularly but it is hard to find that unless keep watching this scene several times like me. In my opinion, since this scene is expression about male protagonist's reminding of life in Tokyo he has had, these irregular changing of shots, just like two mixed editing skill long-take and montage, represent eye blinking when people remind something so that during watching shots, audience can be familiar with male protagonist's mind.

Deconstructed meaning

When I learned about this movie in the class, teacher told me that Sofia Coppola, the director of this movie, said there is no certain ending story and it depends on audience's imagination. That is the reason why I chose these two scenes to analyse because I thought that I can know a bit more if I analyse these ending scenes and I guess it works.

As I analysed above, all the deconstructed meaning of each parts are going to get hopeful future between two protagonists such as actor's performance, shots etc. Besides, not only happy ending of this movie's story, but also I learn something about life from analysing these scenes which is that no matter where people are in, and what kind of different culture people have, isolation from the society is happened to them so, all people are lonely but, like these two protagonists, there is always hope we called love. That's what I learned and understood from this analysing.

Bibliography

Week1 slide.pdf (http://med1915all.blogspot.com)

Week2 slide.pdf (http://med1915all.blogspot.com)

Week3 slide.pdf (http://med1915all.blogspot.com)

Week4 slide.pdf (http://med1915all.blogspot.com)

Week6 analyse not summarise.pdf (http://med1915all.blogspot.com)

Script-lost in translation.pdf (http://med1915all.blogspot.com)

Information of Jesus and mary chain (http://www.naver.com)

Picture of Jesus and mary chain (http://images.google.com)

Chunking express

Intoduction

Director: Kar Wai Wong

Writer: Kar Wai Wong

Stars: Brigittelin, Takeshi kaneshiro, Tony leung Chiu Wai, Faye wong

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance

Runtime: 102 min (international version)

Storyline

Wong Kar-Wai's movie about two love-struck cops is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color. The first half deals with Cop 223, who has broken up with his girlfriend of five years. He purchases a tin of pineapples with an expiration date of May 1 each day for a month. By the end of that time, he feels that he will either be rejoined with his love or that it too will have expired forever. The second half shows Cop 663 dealing with his breakup with his flight attendant girlfriend. He talks to his apartment furnishings until he meets a new girl at a local lunch counter.

Scene Analysis

Shot 1

Duration

00:21:50-00:22:33

Mise-en-scene

Setting: In Cop 223’S apartment

Costume: Cop 223 wear a grey shirt

In this scene, it is talking about Cop 223 start eaingt the 30 canned pineapple which was experied on 1^st May in the moring of 1^st of May and he realized his girlfriend will not come back, so he stop wating May(his ex-girlfiend).

Colours

The background colour of this scene is a little be dark. The dark colour present Cop 223’s feeling is sad at this time.Because May will not come back and it means the realationship between Cop 223 and May will finish.

Sound

This scene have diagetic sound such as the sound of Cop 223 eating and the sound of he put canned pineapple down.

It also has non-diagetic sound suchas a voiceover.

Dialogue:

There is no dialogue in this scene.

Contrasting areas

In this scene Cop 223’s face is more bright than the background. Because it will be more clear on Cop 223,s sad facial expression and it have a contrast with the background to highlight Cop 223’s face.

Lighting

The scene is an interior scene that appears to use artificial light.

Shot types

Medium shot and close up used in this scene. It is to focus on Cop 223’s hand movement and his facial expression.

Camera movement

Tracking shots. The camera follow Cop 223’s hand to open and eating canned pineapple.

Depth of field

The scene is focus on cop 223’s face and his hand movement.

Edting techniques

Long take this shot was lasting 29 sconds. It is to show Cop 223 spend long time to eating canned pineapple.

Shot 2

Duration

00:22:34-00:22:55

Mise-en-scene

Setting: In Cop 223’S apartment

Costume: Cop 223 wear a grey shirt

In this scene, it is talking about Cop 223 when he eating canned pineapple talking with his dog and ask him why he can’t share pain with him to present he is sad and lonely.

Colours

The colour of this scene is a little be dark. The dark colour present Cop 223’s feeling is sad and lonely. Nobody can listen to him so he just talk with his dog..

Sound

This scene have diagetic sound such as the dialogue he talked with his dog.

It also has non-diagetic sound suchas a voiceover.

Dialogue:

The dialogue Cop 223 talked with his dog.

Lighting

The scene use natural light.

Shot types

Medium shot used in this scene. It is to focus on Cop 223’s movement with his dog and his dialogue with his dog.

Camera movement

Pan right. The camera move from dog to Cop 223 and then cop 223 go the other side.

Depth of field

The scene is focus on cop 223’s movement with the dog.

Shot 3

Duration

00:22:58-00:23:24

Mise-en-scene

Setting: In Cop 223’S kitchen of his apartment

Costume: Cop 223 wear a grey shirt

In this scene, Cop 223 go to kitchen to sit down the chair and continue eating canned pineapple.And at this scene he finish all the 30 canned pineapple.

Colours

The colour of this scene is brighter . it.means Cop 223 will finish his pineapple and he will go to his new bright future. The scene is from the inside dark colour to the bright clour.

Sound

This scene have diagetic sound such as the soung of he putting down the canned pineapple.

It also has non-diagetic sound suchas a voiceover.

Dialogue:

There is no dialogue in this scene.

Contrasting areas

In this scene , the kitchen environment compare with the inside one. It means Cop 223 will have a bright new start

Lighting

The scene is an interior scene that appears to use artificial light.

It also have natural light .

Shot types

long shot used in this scene. It is to focus on Cop 223’s whole body.

Depth of field

The scene is focus on cop 223’s whole body. It is to present he is lonely.

Deconstructed meaning

The whole sequence is the key sequence of Cop 223 will finish the past and getting a new start. Because he decide finish the past so he meet the other girl in a bar.And he can start a new life. This sequence as a connecting link between the preceding and the following.

Bibliography

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109424/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chungking_Express