Adaptated from JK Rowling 's Novel, the movie, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone , displays a young wizard 's journey of learning who he is while saving the Sorcerer 's stone from falling into the wrong hands. At the end of the movie, Harry Potter is confronted by antagonist Lord Voldemort and is forced to put away all temptations in order to ensure that Voldemort and his accomplice, Professor Quirrell, don’t get the stone. Because this scene focuses on conflict between two/three people the framing has a concentration on character. At the beginning of the scene the only characters we see are Harry and Professor Quirrell and although Harry is standing above Quirrell, physically, the framing is straight on. There are no suggestions of a
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These shots help the audience respond to the setting and conflict because, the audience can tell what needs to be focused on since it is not far away. When Harry is in the frame, we need to recognize what is happening behind him since it is being shown while also focusing on his body language. When Quirrell is in the frame we need to focus on his expressions because it is the main point of the frame. As the scene progresses and Lord Voldemort enters, the framing starts to angle and change distance. While Harry’s framing was strictly straight on, it slowly angles down on Voldemort as the scene continues slowly decreasing the amount of power he has. It shows how as the scene progresses so does Harry’s power over Voldemort. This is significant because, Harry has to have a large enough amount of power in order to keep the stone away from Voldemort. Because Harry has more power, in this case magic, he has the capability to beat Voldemort. Another way that the audience can view the power struggle between the characters is through their facial …show more content…
In Cohen 's second Thesis, “The Monster Always Escapes”, Cohen makes sense of what happens to Monsters after they are gone. Cohen makes sense of what happens to monsters by telling the readers, “ We see the damage that the monster wreaks, the material remains...but the monster itself turns immaterial and vanishes to reappear somewhere else.”(Cohen 4). Cohen’s concept of a monster reappearing in different forms helps viewers of JK Rowling 's, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer 's Stone, look at the antagonist 's character in a new way. Our main antagonist from the film is Lord Voldemort but, later on in the film the viewers learn that there are two antagonists because Voldemort has been living off of Professor Quirrell. Voldemort transitions from his own body at the beginning of the film to vanishing and reappearing as someone else near the end of the film and ultimately vanishing at the end of the film. Through Cohen 's lens of monsters reappearing in different forms we can infer that when Voldemort vanishes at the end of the scene he will come back in a new form. Voldemort (aka the monster in the film) creates damage, turns immaterial, and vanishes so according to Cohen the next step would be to reappear as something else. This connects to the claim of Harry Potters power over Voldemort because, It shows that Voldemort loses his power when Harry is
These shots help the audience respond to the setting and conflict because, the audience can tell what needs to be focused on since it is not far away. When Harry is in the frame, we need to recognize what is happening behind him since it is being shown while also focusing on his body language. When Quirrell is in the frame we need to focus on his expressions because it is the main point of the frame. As the scene progresses and Lord Voldemort enters, the framing starts to angle and change distance. While Harry’s framing was strictly straight on, it slowly angles down on Voldemort as the scene continues slowly decreasing the amount of power he has. It shows how as the scene progresses so does Harry’s power over Voldemort. This is significant because, Harry has to have a large enough amount of power in order to keep the stone away from Voldemort. Because Harry has more power, in this case magic, he has the capability to beat Voldemort. Another way that the audience can view the power struggle between the characters is through their facial …show more content…
In Cohen 's second Thesis, “The Monster Always Escapes”, Cohen makes sense of what happens to Monsters after they are gone. Cohen makes sense of what happens to monsters by telling the readers, “ We see the damage that the monster wreaks, the material remains...but the monster itself turns immaterial and vanishes to reappear somewhere else.”(Cohen 4). Cohen’s concept of a monster reappearing in different forms helps viewers of JK Rowling 's, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer 's Stone, look at the antagonist 's character in a new way. Our main antagonist from the film is Lord Voldemort but, later on in the film the viewers learn that there are two antagonists because Voldemort has been living off of Professor Quirrell. Voldemort transitions from his own body at the beginning of the film to vanishing and reappearing as someone else near the end of the film and ultimately vanishing at the end of the film. Through Cohen 's lens of monsters reappearing in different forms we can infer that when Voldemort vanishes at the end of the scene he will come back in a new form. Voldemort (aka the monster in the film) creates damage, turns immaterial, and vanishes so according to Cohen the next step would be to reappear as something else. This connects to the claim of Harry Potters power over Voldemort because, It shows that Voldemort loses his power when Harry is