Motion shots and irony

Lucie 2021-11-14 08:01:24

Cohen’s second work has a lot of ways to imitate perspective. It imitates babies and imitates the movement of a demon with high wheels in a nightmare. Cohen made a kind of using a long plank of two people to hold the camera at one end, which can imitate very The perspective of movement, which is also used in the blood maze, is an unnatural perspective, just like a demon. The second half gradually turned into a two-smoker-like story, but drama itself was never Cohen's main goal.

Highly stylized character modeling, character modeling and performance, exaggerated wide-angle lens close-up, ghostly movement (fast track) lens, creating a comic-style exaggerated effect.

The Coen brothers treat each film as a resource for exploring film expression.

The two kidnappers were portrayed as reasonable and sympathetic characters. What they revealed was not the kidnapping of children, but the fact that the children would grow up under a deformed ideology after returning to their parents.

In the affluent middle class of the 1950s, the Arizona couple looked divorced and selfish. They never considered each other's marital life. They ridiculed the development of intemperance and eventually led to the liberalism and individualism that deepened the cracks in all classes of society. The tone satirizes the state of social life during Reagan's administration.

Use dim shades and dark lights in comedy movies to form a clear contrast, with moody emotions, thereby forming a black humor effect

Summarized from the film art of Frederic Astruc and the Coen brothers

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Raising Arizona quotes

  • Dot: [GASPS after seeing Nathan Jr] What's his name?

    Ed McDonnough: Uh... Hi... Hi Junior, till we think of a better one.

    Dot: Why don't ya call him Jason? l just love biblical names. If I had another little boy, I'd name him Jason, Caleb or Tab.

    [GASPS; covers her face with her hands and looks through her fingers]

    Dot: He's an angel! He's an angel straight from heaven! Now honey, I had all my kids the hard way. Tell me how you got this little angel. Did he fly straight down from heaven?

    Ed McDonnough: Well...

    Dot: You're gonna send him to Arizona State.

  • H.I.: What kind of name is Ed for a pretty thing like you?

    Ed McDonnough: Short for Edwina. Turn to the right.

    H.I.: You're a flower, you are. Just a little desert flower.