Kazan films are usually catered around social issues to the outsider. Which focuses on the painfully vulnerable, complicated and emotional naked places of the human psyche. His shooting techniques or the technique of his DP has a creative way to emphasis the emotion on these issues throughout the film. As I explain the similarities between the two films Gentleman’s Agreement & Pinky we will notice how these two movies can make the privilege audience reflect on themselves.
Point #1: what is the movie about? The main characters for these two movies are both dealing with the social issue of discrimination. We are dealing to forms of discrimination, 1) Ethnicity- Gentleman’s Agreement: “A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story …show more content…
While some people might use the method of close-up to express the dramatic scenes, Kazan is known to use the wide. Close-ups allows you to see details. Read the actors facial expression build suspense. While Kazan uses the wide shots in both movies giving you extra information. Especially with the extras in the background, which helps the viewers understand what is going on around the subject. Which helps get into the viewers head, which adds to the story he is telling …show more content…
We will notice the same method used but for two different movies. At the beginning of Pinky the cops settles a disagreement that occurs between Patricia (the light skin woman) and the guy she is collecting money from. We have a medium shots during the interactions at first then we move to a wide-angle right before it is revealed that Patricia is black. We are able to capture the reaction of the people in the back as this is revealed and wee notice how these officers treat her different. In Gentleman’s Agreement there is a scene when the reporter is denied a room in the hotel because he is a Jew. During the scene we deal with close-ups and medium close-up until the reporter confronts the discrimination. This is when we have a med shot with visible extras in the background who reacts towards the
Point #1: what is the movie about? The main characters for these two movies are both dealing with the social issue of discrimination. We are dealing to forms of discrimination, 1) Ethnicity- Gentleman’s Agreement: “A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story …show more content…
While some people might use the method of close-up to express the dramatic scenes, Kazan is known to use the wide. Close-ups allows you to see details. Read the actors facial expression build suspense. While Kazan uses the wide shots in both movies giving you extra information. Especially with the extras in the background, which helps the viewers understand what is going on around the subject. Which helps get into the viewers head, which adds to the story he is telling …show more content…
We will notice the same method used but for two different movies. At the beginning of Pinky the cops settles a disagreement that occurs between Patricia (the light skin woman) and the guy she is collecting money from. We have a medium shots during the interactions at first then we move to a wide-angle right before it is revealed that Patricia is black. We are able to capture the reaction of the people in the back as this is revealed and wee notice how these officers treat her different. In Gentleman’s Agreement there is a scene when the reporter is denied a room in the hotel because he is a Jew. During the scene we deal with close-ups and medium close-up until the reporter confronts the discrimination. This is when we have a med shot with visible extras in the background who reacts towards the