Segment of Rushmore In Wes Anderson’s Rushmore (1998), one particular segment that really captured the tone of the film was the one of Mr. Blume drinking whiskey, smoking a cigarette, and getting ready to dive into the swimming pool. This particular series of shots has a visually pleasing color scheme and various different cinematic shots. The segment incorporates Anderson’s famous object-in-the-center frame style, which also adds to the tone of the film as well as to Anderson’s style as a whole. The segment of Mr. Blume in the pool brings a sort of familiarity to the viewer because the actually action of it is something that people can relate to. It also, in a way, stops the idea of time within the film when Mr. Blume is underwater. Although
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Desser describes a particular scene in Tokyo Story as a “minor ellipsis”. He describes a minor ellipsis as “the principle of retrospectively, the active participation of viewers, who must constantly reintegrate themselves into the action, reorient themselves within filmic time and space” (6). A particular moment in the segment I chose is an example of a minor ellipsis. It is when Mr. Blume backs up to dive into the pool, he still has a cigarette in his mouth, then there is a cut to him getting a running start for the dive. A wide shot is shown after a cut of the action of Mr. Blume diving into the pool, here he does not have the cigarette. The sequence and cuts indicate that Mr. Blume put his cigarette down, but there is no observation of that. The viewer has to be in the filmic time in space in order to realize that this action happened between cuts even though it is an eliminated …show more content…
The thing that stands out the most in difference is the plot. Rushmore is a coming of age film where a young boy goes through moments that are blown totally out of proportion and seen as something melodramatic. Tokyo Story is a film that does not have plot and can be experienced as a everyday life style. This is because of difference in culture, yet the films did share similarities within both selected segments. To conclude, one similarity that both director share in their details with films. Detail is put right into the cuts of the editing, which both films have a shocking amount of, which is what I think sets these two filmmakers apart from the
Desser describes a particular scene in Tokyo Story as a “minor ellipsis”. He describes a minor ellipsis as “the principle of retrospectively, the active participation of viewers, who must constantly reintegrate themselves into the action, reorient themselves within filmic time and space” (6). A particular moment in the segment I chose is an example of a minor ellipsis. It is when Mr. Blume backs up to dive into the pool, he still has a cigarette in his mouth, then there is a cut to him getting a running start for the dive. A wide shot is shown after a cut of the action of Mr. Blume diving into the pool, here he does not have the cigarette. The sequence and cuts indicate that Mr. Blume put his cigarette down, but there is no observation of that. The viewer has to be in the filmic time in space in order to realize that this action happened between cuts even though it is an eliminated …show more content…
The thing that stands out the most in difference is the plot. Rushmore is a coming of age film where a young boy goes through moments that are blown totally out of proportion and seen as something melodramatic. Tokyo Story is a film that does not have plot and can be experienced as a everyday life style. This is because of difference in culture, yet the films did share similarities within both selected segments. To conclude, one similarity that both director share in their details with films. Detail is put right into the cuts of the editing, which both films have a shocking amount of, which is what I think sets these two filmmakers apart from the