Analysis Of The Film 'Casablanca'

Hitchcock captures a montage at a medium shot of Devlin and Alicia deliberating how they will go through more searching of both her husband and his connections. Specifically, Alicia responded that she did not receive the key to the basement filled with wine. Devlin makes a suggestion to Alicia that she should encourage Sebastian to host a party as well as announce his new wife, in which he does. After Devlin gives Alicia this request, she leaves to complete this request, and a wide shot is being captured at this time in which a view of Sebastian’s dark mansion is filmed. To complete this request, Alicia’s must grab a hold of the Unica key from Sebastian to the basement filled with wine, in which she does. Before the party starts, Alicia enters …show more content…
The toxic coffee cup’s cinematography is connected to mise-en-scene because the camera zooms in on the cup and it is used as a metaphorical prop because since it’s so toxic, it becomes a symbol of life and death. First of all, Alicia is recommended by Sebastian to take her coffee, and as she starts to drink it, the camera zooms in on the small coffee cup. Subsequently, Sebastian puts Alicia’s coffee in her cup, and places it on a table right towards her and the camera zooms into a medium close up focusing on the cup later on when she grasps that she is contaminated from the toxic coffee. In addition, Hitchcock’s filming of the cup when it is both unfilled and filled up implies Alicia’s lack of breaking away from her condition, as she turns out to be stuck because of the cup’s toxicity. Alica then comprehends that the Sebastian’s tried to murder her by poisoning her coffee cup. Although Alicia clearly looked ill, Alexander opposes for Alicia to see a doctor, and the viewers are alert of his secret plan, and they can certainly assess his clever, yet devious control. As she takes in the fact that she is poisoned by the coffee cup, she starts to pass out, and when she looks at Sebastian and Madame Anna Sebastian, Hitchcock zooms in on them in a close up shot. As she looks at them, she painfully stands up from her seat, and her vision becomes blurry and she sees shadows. Hitchcock uses a medium long shot in order to show Anna’s point of view, and the background of the room becomes a lot lighter than it actually is, and Madame Anna and Sebastian turn into shadows, and as Alicia unsteadily walks to the room’s door, the shadows fuse to her blurred eyesight. From this medium long shot, the viewer is given the impression that Madame Anna and Sebastian have developed to be identical, and they typically are alike because of their connection with their mutual objective of her political fondness to stay