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.