Religion and Film 2020

Bunny This comes across as somewhat of an odd story, with a rabbit chasing a moth around the house. However it uses Quality between dark and one focused light in which the moth chases after. Works towards the religious narrative of dying. Harold and Maude This movie uses the effect of shallow focus on movie scenes. Initially you could easily be confused easily by focusing on the conversation between the two women and not catch the prank of setting themselves on fire in the background. This leads to a close up shot of Harold and is his mother in which he is giving a devious smile before cowering under his mother's death stare. This image that helps work towards the narrative that is painted by Harold who only searches for emotional recognition from his mother.  Northfork The movie Northfork gave the constant feeling of the end that was coming. It did an excellent job of this by not eliminating color or making it really dark. Instead it’s achieved this by using lightin...

Bunny  The Bunny film that shows an old rabbit battling with a buzzing moth that is flying around his kitchen annoying him. The Bunny keeps trying    to kill or get rid of this moth. The    bunny falls asleep and wakes up but is actually dreaming. The bunny gets inside the oven to follow the moth that the bunny is so annoyed with. There is light coming out the oven and the moth goes into it as well as the bunny. This movie used a lot of color and light / darkness.    The director uses light    in the very beginning of the film as the moth is attracted to a very bright light. During the the movie, it is dark and composed of grays and blacks colors. The bunny had a very raggedy and beat up image. The bunny looked very old and was ready to die and meet back with the bunny’s spouse, who was shown in the pictures in the bunny’s kitchen.       Harold and Maude    In the clip from Harold and Maude, Harold seems...

  Bunny is a short film that shows an elderly rabbit battling with a buzzing moth. As Bunny continues to try to kill this moth, Bunny tires and falls asleep and to pass away and in a "dream" she climbs into the oven to follow the moth that has disappeared. The use of light is introduced in the very beginning of the film as the moth is attracted to an intense blue/white light. The rest of the movie is dark and composed of grays, soft whites and dull colors. Bunny also has a grizzled and worn image in the movie and truly appears to be old and ready to die and her see her deceased husband.        In Harold and Maude, Harold longs for the attention of his mother and goes so far as to be destructive and fake his own suicide on a regular basis. In the shot where Maude looks at Harold, their eyes meet in a pan shot and Harold makes direct eye contact with the camera. Maude's eyes show a look of absolute disapproval and disappointment in her son. He only wants he...

Harold and Maude The first scene that we watching in Harold and Maude involved Harold's mother attempting to find him a girlfriend interview style. This scene used angles to show the viewer what is happening behind the mother that she cannot see, but the viewer and the date can. The deep depth of field is also used here so that the viewer can see what Harold is doing in the yard outside along with the conversation taking place indoors. The girl sees what appears to be Harold setting himself on fire outside of the window and runs out of the home. The scene then transitions to a shot of Harold and his mother watching her leave. There is no dialogue in this shot, but the characters' body language says a lot. Harold is positioned in front of his mother, with the camera positioned from below to make Harold appear taller and above his mother to evoke a feeling that he has won over her. He has succeeded in scaring off another girl, and he is proud of how it irritated his mother. Thi...

Harold & Maude  Harold is 18 years old and his mother is a smothering mother who controls his life. Harold discovers his mom only shows him emotion during a chemistry lab when there was a bad explosion and she cried because she thought he died. Since then harold has now started to commit fake suicides. Maude teaches him that life has meaning and its more than this. In the scene they put a window in the background where harold attempts to commit suicide. The furniture is very formal and dark dull colors to help the background stand out more. The background is very light out with an explosion of bright light which is fire. The angle of the camera is shooting up so you have the actors view. They also set up Harold and his mom in a position that displays their emotion on how the young girl reacts to Harolds fake of suicide. The actors acknowledge the audience by the way they look at camera and the way they gaze off into the “crowd” and each other. The mother also gives off a loo...

Harold and Maude : In this film, two selected scenes highlight the overall intended meaning and demonstrate symbolism. First, we see Harold commit another act of deception as he tricks yet another date into believing that he has died. Harold appears in the room as his date flees in horror, while his mother stares at him inquisitively unaware of the fact that he faked setting himself on fire in the backyard. Harold is obsessed with death, constantly faking suicides such as the one mentioned and others previously. He attends funerals and drives a hearse, committed to the notion that he likes the thought of being dead. This scene invites the audience to participate, as he makes direct eye contact with the camera while his mother looks him up and down simultaneously. This tactic is a way of breaking the 4th wall, so to speak, where the audience members are no longer spectators. This close-up and point of view shot in which the camera makes direct eye contact with Harold communicates mea...

Herold and Maude  In Herold and Maude we have a young boy and his mother standing together after his latest date flees from the room in a hurry. As they stand next to each other, the boy involves us in the movie by making eye contact with us and keeping us in the loop with his conspiracy. The mother on the other hand has no idea who he is looking at looks him up and down, confused. Herold then looks back at her directly in the eye, holding his head up almost knowing that we are now on his side. The mother however, meets his eyes almost immediately once again showing her confidence and control over the situation. Herold quickly looks away as he becomes intimidated once more. In the second scene of the film Herold meets an older woman in a garden. The old woman talks about the wisdom of life and death and change. The camera follows them as she talks and focuses on the reflection of the water as they look over it. Interestingly enough, their reflection is upside down, a...