Dai Jinhua's Film Appreciation (2) Notes - Writing with Light and Literary Adaptation

Elenora 2022-04-19 09:02:05

1. The director and photographer successfully reproduced the mainstream visual medium of the 19th century - oil painting through light, color and camera. The richness formed by the large black, the warm tones on the black and the light on the black; a large amount of floor scattered light is used, and there is no clear main light source and light source basis; the daylight setting adopts full backlighting to form a haze, strengthen the sense of flatness, and form Gouache-like effect. 2. There is no first-person narrator, and the visual person structure is turned into the narrative structure of the film, that is, each scene and paragraph is premised on the presence of Jane Eyre, and the audience sees what she sees and feels what she feels; share the screen space in the film It means sharing mental space; the use of shallow focus (depth of field) lenses has become an important narrative method in this article, showing the psychology of the characters; using the reality of the focus to express presence and absence, to express psychological rejection and identification). 3. When two people fall in love, they completely use the double medium shot to express the ardor of their love and the profound identity of both parties. 4. The use of "frame in a picture frame", that is, the use of mirrors: Jane Eyre has three mirrors in her room, but she never takes a picture of herself in the mirror, implying her strong character without self-pity or narcissism, exception: Jane Eyre Love gets married and looks in the mirror in a wedding dress, while the refracted figures in the photo frame are distorted, implying that the happy bride is just a fantasy.

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Jane Eyre quotes

  • Jane Eyre: Have you something for me to do?

    Mary Rivers: You're doing something already. May I see?

    [Looks at Jane's drawings]

    Mary Rivers: Oh, these are wonderful! St. John...

    [Mary takes a sketch Jane did of St. John over to him]

    Jane Eyre: No, Mary, please.

    Mary Rivers: See how skilled Jane is!

    St John Rivers: Is this how you perceive me, Miss Elliott?

    [Jane remains silent]

    St John Rivers: Well. How fierce I am.

  • Young Jane: [Helen is dying from consumption] How are you?

    Helen Burns: I'm happy, Jane. I'm going home.

    Young Jane: Back to your father.

    Helen Burns: I'm going to god.

    [Jane is visibly upset]

    Helen Burns: Don't be sad. You have a passion for living, Jane. And one day you'll come to the region of bliss.

    [pause]

    Helen Burns: Don't leave me. I like to have you near.

    Young Jane: I will not leave you.

    [Helen kisses Jane's hand she is holding]

    Young Jane: No one shall take me from you.

    [They fall asleep, while Helen dies]