Scene analysis

This is a trailer for the movie. I couldn't find the acutal scene.







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My scene came from the movie The Kingdom- The one with Jamie Fox and Jennifer Garner.

In the wake of September 11, 2001 fear of terrorism spread rapidly among Americans. Americans fear spread to racism and misunderstanding of Muslims and many of the nations in the Middle East. In The Kingdom the director creates an ironic tone by revealing that the terrorist and the Americans have the same goal and by creating a sad tone in the wake of a Saudi Arabian man dying that conflict with the FBI agents’ goal of killing all the terrorist.

The director creates an ironic tone through the building of suspense and the cutting to different scenes. By revealing what the FBI agents’ goal was all along to kill all the terrorist and then cutting to the young Saudi boy revealing his goal to kill all the Americans creates the ironic tone that both sides are trying to achieve the same goal to ease their pain from losing love ones. The director reveals to us that we must change our goals in fighting terrorist from killing them to stopping them and their motivation. The director builds suspense by cutting back and forth from two different scenes one with the Saudi boy and his mother and one of the FBI team. By cutting back and forth between the scenes and having minor characters ask questions and holding out the answers and revealing the answer after both the questions have been asked creates suspense in the scene and conflict between the idea that the two culture are not that different showing that they are very similar answers to the questions and that is they are both going to kill all their enemies. By having the answers be similar between the two conflicting cultures it creates irony because it reveals that the seemingly different people really are similar.

To build the sad tone in the final scene the director uses a lot of reaction shots and very soft sad music to build a sad tone. By building the sad tone at the end of the movie the director reveal the growth that the main characters goes through out the movie. The main character who expresses a lot of rage toward Saudi Arabians befriends one and when he dies it affects him deeply. This relationship between the FBI agent and the Saudi man help reveal that Americans need to learn to get rid of their miss concepts and racism and learn to corporate and understand other countries. Especially countries and people we don’t understand well.

By using the irony and the sad tone following the death of the Saudi police man the director reveals that Americans need to correct their misunderstanding of other people’s culture especially people from the Middle East. The irony created revealed that the two cultures are not as different as each side thinks and that we need to get past the miss conceptions and racism and work together to stop the threat of terrorism and violence among each nations people.

Movie Analysis

Movie: The Kingdom

Scene: Last scene before ending credits

Scene Running Time: 2.32

Description of the Scene: Starts blury with main character walk in and then focus on him. Camera then does close up on other important characters part of his FBI team. Then cuts to street in Saudi Arabia, establishing shot. Then cuts to a Saudi boys face, close up. Cuts to a media shot of him and his mother. Then cuts back to us and FBI director talking to main character and team. Close ups of each team member. Cuts back to Saudi Arabia and close up on the mothers face. Then swivels to close up on the boys face while voice of the FBI director talking the team in the back round. Cuts back to US and does close ups on each of the FBI members again. One FBI character ask a question reaction shot of other agents. Cuts to Saudi Arabia and the mother ask her son a question. Cuts back to US and close up on the agent who asked the question. Close up on main character and then false back memory of the scence the question is about. Then cuts back to agents face and he answers. Then cuts to Saudi boys face and he anwsers the same as the FBI agent. "We are going to kill them all". Cuts back to close up on FBI agents face and close up on all their faces. Main character turns and walks away camera follows him. Cuts back to Saudi boy's face close up and then fades to black.

Choose two themes and discuss how each theme is similar or different to a theme in the other plays.

Family comes above all
In both Medea and both Sophicles plays the authors stress the importants of family and the family name. In Medea the importance of family is stressed by Medea character and her desire to keep her family together. Expecially her reaction to Jason leaving her. In Antigone Sophicles stress the importance of family by Antigone's need and desire to bury her brother. In Oedipus he stress the importance of family by his disgrace in ruining his family name for his daugthers and sons.

Power given to only one person creates a tryannt.
In both Antigone and Oedipus Sophicles creates Creon and Oedipus as tyrants. They over react to challenges of their power with anger and rash decisions. Oedipus over reacts to Tiresase prophecy and to Creon possible challenging him for power. In Medea Creon over reacts to medea as does Jason to start with and this angers Medea by banishing her. These character when given to much power over react and try to defend their positon at all cost.

Anouilh's Antigone Journal # 3

Word Choice:
During Creon and Antigone's argument Anouilh repeats many words and ideas. Choose a word or idea and discuss how Anouilh uses the term.
Sometimes Anouilh uses ambiguous terms, identify how the terms affect your interpretation of characters and their motivations.

Life is like water
Anouilhs repeats the idea that life is like water over and over again in Creons argument with Antigone. This give us a lot of insight into Creons character and what his view on life are and how they influence his decision and mental attitude.

Abstract idea of paying ofr you decsions
Anouilh repeates the idea of paying for your decsions in life. Creon talks about how he doesn't want Antigone to die as a payment to peace and securtiy for the city and Antigone counter with the idea that Creon must pay for saying yes to being king and that his suffering is the paymetn for his yes. This idea that the characters must pay for thing with pain and struggles in their life makes it seem like their characters got the lossing end of a deal.

Characters motivation

Think about the character you will be performing. What motivates him/her? What role does this motivation play? Use evidence from the play to defend your response.

Jason's motivation
Jason's motivation is fear and a need for security and power he is also driven by revenage toward Medea for taking his security and power from him. Jason fear is driven by who Medea is and her personality to kill without thinking to get what she wants. Jason need for security and power is reveal by him divorcing Medea and marrying Creon's daughter. This action would have given him security in life both politicaly and financialy with wealth that being a king or a prince brings.

Evidence:
"She, she shall be repaid through her victims"(73).

"Does she think that she can kill a princess and a country's king and vanish with impunity?"(73).

"I'll show you, first, it was an act of common sense,"(50).

Anouilh's Antigone Journal # 2

4 literary techniques and their effects

Metaphor
"Wasn't I a miserable little beast when we were small?"(10).
Antigone compares herself to a little beast a pest something that is small and annoying and this gives us insight into how she views herself.

Imagery
Creates the image of the guards being dumb brutal beast and down plays her respect for them and also the readers respect.
"[...]surrounded by guards with their idiot faces all bloated, their animal hands clean-washed for the sacrifice, their beefy eyes squinting as they stare at us"(12). The effect is that it creates an image of the guards as being dumb mindless obeident creature who obey Creon and it helps to create the idea that Creon is a tryant and the he controls everyone who follows him.

Foreshadowing
"But if there was a reaon why I couldn't go on taliking to her"(15).
Foreshadow the idea that Antigone already knows that she is going to die and it helps reveal that she is going to be caught and be punished to death.

Personification: "[...]that there is something inside you that si just-dying?"(18). Idea that Antigone is everything to Haemon and that this personification that her love is killing something inside of him shows how great it is.

Anouilh's Antigone Journal # 1

what do you know about the 1940s in Europe and how do you predict that will influence Anouilh's version of Antigone.

During the 1940's World War 2 was going on and for a portion of that time France was occupied by the Nazi's. This could really affect Anouih's version of Antigone because see was French and expeirenced a really hard time full of traitors to her people and also people who stood up against the nazi in resitance groups. I believe that this will influence her version of antigone to stand up agaisnt oprresion and morally wrong things