Gone With the Wind Essay -- essays papers

Gone With the Wind This is a film about contrast. In the film clip, lagre amount of contrast basis be found between characters, lighting, the way of how chroma is presented, the way of how camera being placed, and the way of how shots being taken.Misc-en-Scene From the film clip (and the whole film), the colour symbol is strong on contrast, not only the colour of the settings, the furnitures, and the costumes, also the colour contrast of indoor and outdoor. In the film clip, the major colour is grey-haired, the tones contain grayish olive green, grayish blue ( Melanies costume), and grayish brown. It gave the audience an postage stamp of desolated space, like a castle. With a large amount of gloomly shadows of furnitures and stairs, it empasis the dismal of the indoor surroundings strongly. The dull tone of indoor settings is different when compare with the outdoor setting. When Melanie announced to the people who were out in the stadium through the window, the co lourful image of the field outside is a strong contrast to the dull and gloomy image inside the house. This created a feeling of a hidden incident is happened or mishap inside the house but the public outside is never known. As the colour concept of people (i.e. audiences) always treated colourful as joyful, mirth and innocent, and dark, dull, gloomy are always connected with evil, crime and secrets. The costumes are designed to signifly the difference in the personalities of Melanie and Scarlet. The costume of Melanie is a grayish-blue lingerie, an additonal over coat, and the a long pull with an untidy hair, that makes her looks compelety as a peasanty woman. Her pale face and the pair of sunken eyes also suggests she is weak, sick, and need protection. Scarlet is wearing a bright colour one piece dress with patterns, her hair hair looks tidy with a white hair net, her light make up, looks elegant and sexy when compared with Melanie. And also created an impression that she doesnt belongs to the dismal, gloomy house, she doesnt belong to the working peasant lifestyle. However, she is wearing a pair of old leather shoes which covered by dirt, alter mud and dust, that hide under her pretty dress. It means even thought she is not belong to there, or she think she is not belong to there, but her acquit place, her root is Tara, the place with mud, dust, and p... ... and affecting each other...In the film clip, Scarlet shoot the deserter with no mercy, and then discuss with Melanie how to manage the corpse in a very reality tone, it is just like discussing how to hide a furniture, an object. A conflict with Melanie, she hasnt got any idea of how to solve and hide for this kind of flagitious crime. But Melanie lie for Scarlet, even thought it is something out of her personality. At that moment they are standing at the same line. Therefore, this is the way of opening up the possibilities of more than complexity of the narrative Melanie and Sca rlet is not totally against each other, they still the help from each other, like Scarlet work for Melanie, Melanie lie for Scarlet, they are set in a very subtle relationship, this is the formation of the the story.Finally, the director described the Northerns are robbers, intruders to the Southerns. This film clip is standing in the point of view of a Southerns. As Southerns are the oppose of liberation the black slave, we can noticed that this film still having the shadow of the white supremeismBibliographyGone with the wind and the sunset(1992) Dr Karen Chen, Meiah Publisher