🅔🅝🅖 Pride and Prejudice - Joe Wright
septiembre 23, 2020
First of all I want to talk about how interesting is how they shot the film. They treat the viewers as another character in the scene and almost all the perspectives and angles are right up there with the characters, as if you were a third figure within the story.
As we can see in this images:
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| When Elizabeth and her sister talk behind the sheets |
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| Right up there with the characters |
During the ball, the camera stays right up there with the characters and follows their movements. If they kneel in order to curtsy, the camera will go down. If the characters spin, the camera will turns too. All the time it moves like it was between the people at the formal dance. Actually I think the ball scene is where makes itself felt this intention.
With regard to the lighting, stand out blue and orange tones and white. But I believe it's because these colors come from natural elements: The orange of the candles, the blue of the night and the white of the dawn. Although in some scenes I've given them some importance:
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| Until... Oh, magic. I think the frame speaks for itself. |
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Notice how we empathize with the dramatic and tense situation of the characters cause most of the shots are close-up view. And what about this exchange of glances?
The film has also extreme wide shots of brutal landscapes which reminds me of the paintings by caspar David Friedrich, who used to paint immense panoramas with tiny characters sucked into nature.
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| Film scene |
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| Friedrich,C (1809). The abbey in the oakwood [Oil on canvas]. Berlín, Nationalgalerie |
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| Film scene |
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| Friedrich,C (1822). Moonrise by the sea [Oil on canvas]. Berlín, Nationalgalerie |
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| I'd like to clarify too that they have made a reference to this illustration of the 1895 novel. |
I loved it so much, It's pretty beautiful. How they care about the details. It was shot in analog and I think was a very good idea cause gives that vintage touch to the filme. Although the movie was shot in 2005 and the digital cinema started in 1982, so I guess they did it on purpose cause the context of the story develops at the end of the 18th century and early 19th century.
To say something I didn't like, I have to say that at the beginning, I didn't recognize the characters and I didn't relate their names with them. And when they were talking about someone, I was like: Who are they talking about? I think they should have presented a bit better the characters.
Also it must be taken into account the people who have seen the movie knows the novel and they are familiar with the characters, so I understand it.
There is another stuff I didn't like which is that some change of scenes weren't enough developed and a bit confusing, in my humble opinion. For example when the ball scene ends, changes to another scene where it's daytime and two seconds after, it's midnight.
I have to say, I have a love-hate with the mother cause at first sight upsets me. I thought she was only a gold digger who doesn't care about his daughters. But then I've realized she just wanted to save her family of the eviction of her house. Actually it also made me laugh too.
In conclusion, I've really enjoy it. I thought the film would feels longer cause were 2 hours, but in the end it didn't.
And to finish the analysis I would like to show you my favourite frames of the film so let's go:
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| I'm a fan of the mother, running away from the geeses |
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| What a fantasy of swing set |
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| The almost kiss moment was killing me |
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| What the heck, look at those eyes. By the way, at this shot we can see what I've said about the close-ups. |
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| The laziness haha |
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| The moment of: act normal. And the mother screaming. I've loved it |
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| So cute, rehearsing for proposing |
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| Loving it, the gossip |
And at last but not least:
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| Remember this is a teamwork😉 |
This is how far I got with the analysis. I hope you liked it. Whoever has made it this far thank you so so much for reading me. I know I'm not professional but I've tried my best and I've enjoyed it.
DIKRA.
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