As I prepare to watch “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” and get comfortable, I noticed no sound when I pressed play. At first I thought that it could have been my laptop that was in mute or a malfunction on YouTube. Surprisingly I noticed that it was a silent film. I had never watched any of these movies so I automatically thought it was going to be boring and I would fall asleep during the movie. The first few minutes I was not paying too much attention because lack of interest.
Silent horror film, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” directed by Robert Wien and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer in 1920. This type of silent horror film was also known as German Expressionist cinema. “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” is about a crazy hypnosis that went by Dr. Caligari who uses a somnambulist to commit …show more content…
The fade-ins that happened very often with Dr. Caligari in many scenes. This was an interesting attribute to the whole film because this would make it more suspenseful and eye dawning. From the beginning of this film we knew that he was going to play an important role because of this certain cinematography. I caught various scenes whenever scenes would go dark and only focus on the face of Dr. Caligari and the somnambulist. This defiantly was well used to interpret the how evil these two people are. The lighting used was dark, extremely dark the majority of the time, not to mention sharp pointed forms, shadows and streaks of light painted directly on set. The shots taken were used from the same angle throughout the film. It was a straight single shot. This shot would give us a full shot of all the characters from top to bottom and to give us a better understanding by their body language what they were saying; another way of interpreting. There was no low angle shots or Dutch angle shots taken. It was just dark to convey and represent suspicion, unease, danger and the darkness of
Silent horror film, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” directed by Robert Wien and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer in 1920. This type of silent horror film was also known as German Expressionist cinema. “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” is about a crazy hypnosis that went by Dr. Caligari who uses a somnambulist to commit …show more content…
The fade-ins that happened very often with Dr. Caligari in many scenes. This was an interesting attribute to the whole film because this would make it more suspenseful and eye dawning. From the beginning of this film we knew that he was going to play an important role because of this certain cinematography. I caught various scenes whenever scenes would go dark and only focus on the face of Dr. Caligari and the somnambulist. This defiantly was well used to interpret the how evil these two people are. The lighting used was dark, extremely dark the majority of the time, not to mention sharp pointed forms, shadows and streaks of light painted directly on set. The shots taken were used from the same angle throughout the film. It was a straight single shot. This shot would give us a full shot of all the characters from top to bottom and to give us a better understanding by their body language what they were saying; another way of interpreting. There was no low angle shots or Dutch angle shots taken. It was just dark to convey and represent suspicion, unease, danger and the darkness of