The Deleted Scene Analysis

Analytical Thesis: Get Out is a psychological thriller that analyzes the racial issues in modern America through the use of visual rhetoric: such as film noir, symbolism and metaphors.

Jordan Peele’s uses sound to his complete advantage in his thriller Get Out. The film sound in Get Out creates the tone of the scenes, advances the plot, and develop the theme of racism.

The film “Juvies” really made me think about how the criminal justice system treats young children. Before watching the film, I was under the impression that children were treated fairly and with care when they commit a crime. After all, they are just kids. However, to my surprise, this was not the case. Many children have been cheated by the law because they are put through the adult system and are not given a fair trial. Meanwhile, these children are expected to make the rational decisions that an adult would make. There is biological evidence that kids do not have the ability to control impulsive behavior because their brains are underdeveloped. Thus, I believe this system is extremely unfair because children are not protected in adult prisons, which makes it very difficult for them to succeed once they are released back into the free world.

In the movie Get Out, directed by Jordan Peele, one peculiar scene takes place outside in the backyard of the Armitage’s house during a party, where the topic of tribalism is present. The party Chris Washington, Rose Armitage’s boyfriend, is attending takes place outside where it is spacious, bright, and accented by a rich forest surrounding the property, which provides a home to Rose’s family, and their ‘around-the-home-maids’, such as Logan, which is prevalent in this scene. The scene starts off by Chris going up to Logan and stating “good to see another brother ‘round here.” Once the two are about to engage in conversation, Logan’s wife Philomena, interrupts and lets Walter know other company is asking about him and that he needs to go chat with the other company. Before Logan leaves, Chris offers him a fist bump, but is surprised by Logan grabbing his fist instead of bumping it back, inferring that he is behaving as the other white folks surrounding him. Shortly after leaving, Logan then showcases himself to the white people. This scene represents partly what David Berreby’s article, “It Takes a Tribe”, was about: humans naturally group together stationed on common interests.

Throughout Memento the shifting between objective and subjective point of views shapes our perception of Leonard, Natalie and Teddy. There are two types of scenes in Memento, the black and white scenes in chronological order and the color scenes which are shown in reverse order, which eventually meet up chronologically with the black and white scenes. The black and white scenes are objective, the audience and Leonard can see all the facts and they are not influenced by Leonard’s emotions or opinions. The color scenes are subjective, they are from Leonard’s perspective and we are denied the same information Leonard is denied during these scenes.

Blade Runner, produced by Ridley Scott, is a Science fiction or fantasy film set in Los Angeles in 2019. The film is about a cop, Deckard, who is told to hunt down four man-made beings that resemble humans, which are called replicants. The film illustrates the battle between what is natural and what is man-made. The scene where Deckard sits across the table and interrogates Rachael at -20:44-, is important because this is where Deckard first realizes that Rachael isn’t human. This scene contains a number of different mise en scene techniques that are used to highlight the differences between humans and technology, some of which are lighting, composition, density, and framing. The film portrays that toying with nature destroys the sense of order,

The text, or more so the movie about the text, The Help by Kathryn Stockett, does a good job of portraying race, class and gender. During the setting of the book, many people looked at white Americans to be superior to the Black, African American race. With this being said, the successful white families hired in the African American women to cook, clean, and in most cases, take care of the children. They were known as the help. Throughout both the book and the movie, the African American women experienced many forms of gender, race and class inequality.

Falsettos was one of the first shows that led the change in talking about death. “In particular, the AIDS epidemic elicited many theatrical and musical responses, the most important for the purposes of this discussion being Rent and Falsettos” (Death Comes to the Broadway Musical). Before the 20th century, pain and suffering was rarely addressed in the theatre. Originally premiering in 1993, Falsettos is about Marvin, a gay man, struggling to balance his ex-wife, 12 year old son, and his new boyfriend, Whizzer. Amidst the chaos, one of the characters laments about an unknown disease that is rapidly spreading in the song “Something Bad is Happening” (“Falsettos”). Not soon after, viewers discover that Whizzer has contracted this disease and he eventually passes away. The show helped transport audience members back to their experience with

In Paul Schrader’s “notes on film noir” essay, he was carefully to describe a very vagueness to the almost genre of film noir. He made it clear that it is a genre that cannot be specifically pinned down to a single black and white definition. For example he very wisely described it by saying, “It is a film “noir”, as opposed to the possible variants of film gray or film off-white”. This explains how there is this subtle thing, or a je ne sais quoi, that belongs to film noir that makes it film noir. While this “thing” that belongs to film noir is a feeling, it is something that also is very specific to a era in time. Schrader says how it is “period of time in film history”, which goes to show how strange film noir is. How can something that is so nonspecific belong to something so specific at the same time?

“You couldn’t find a whiter, safer or better-lit part of this city. But this white woman sees two black guys … and her reaction is blind fear” (Cheadle & Haggis, 2004). This quote is from the academy award-winning film Crash, by Paul Haggis. Haggis demonstrates both essentialist and non-essentialist concepts through his characters living in downtown Los Angeles. Crash follows various characters over a thirty-six hour period as their lives intertwine through a series of incidents, and how each individual deals with the racial tension that plagues the city. Haggis’ uses repetition to force the characters to ‘crash’ back into each other

After watching the movie, Breakin’, I find that the film was inspirational, influential and motivational. Looking at how the young street dancers, Turbo and Ozone as well as Kelly, initially a Jazz dancer to a street dancer, chasing after their dreams, with perseverance and determination. Besides giving me an idea on what hip-hop was about, it also shows the true feelings of the break dancers when they are being challenged. They used dance to express their anger towards each other and battle among themselves. They showcase different moves of break dance in the battle, to “fight” back against their opponents.

Film can be a very useful catalyst in teaching how not to treat patients. In Analyze This and Analyze That, we see very extensive examples of this throughout the film. Through farce and lampoon, we see the in this disjunctive way what proper CBT, criminal therapy and combating recidivism is all about.

This animated movie ¨Monster House¨ is a marvelous movie. It has a really dark twist when the house becomes wonderfully alive with windows like eyes, and a flying carpet that unfolds like a tongue and scoops up trespassers. This movie might not be that good for young children, because the characters aren't really a good role model during the movie. They operate heavy machines and use sticks as dynamite. Also the adults in the movie are creepy; not just Old Man Nebbercracker, but also the babysitter that does not care, the parents that are never home, and the clueless cops.

For the first few moments, the audience is shown the glimpse of a child’s face. At first seems like a broken doll, doe eye and scuffed with dirt. The sounds of sirens and gun shots appear to give the scene a foreboding emotion when it was slowly zooming into the face. Quickly, the scene shifted to new clippings about terrorist attacks and Bid Laden. This gave the viewer a sense of when the movie could have occurred. Audio of news anchors of different regions started speaking, while montages were repeating. The repetition soon stopped when it jumped to the children. The image of what look like a doll at first is an actual child. It soon fades out to a quote.

For those who have not watched the film District 9, here is a quick summary of the movie. In 1982, aliens arrive on Earth, not to conquer or give aid, but to find refuge from their dying planet. Separated from humans in a South African area called District 9, the aliens are managed by Multi-National United, which is not concerned with the aliens' welfare but will do anything to master their advanced technology. When a company field agent Wikus contracts a mysterious virus that begins to alter his DNA, there is only one place he can hide: District 9. The film was directed by Neill Blomkamp and starred Sharlto Copley(Wikus). It begins as a documentary style investigation and then as the film continues it becomes more conventional and character driven following Wikus and his transformation into a Prawn. The film’s main themes are Xenophobia and Segregation. Xenophobia is characterized by a negative attitude towards foreigners, a dislike, a fear, or a hatred. Segregation as most people know is a separation of people or objects from others. When picking a critical approach to use for this essay two stuck out to me, Biographical and Mimetic.