Movie Conventions Research - The glass onion

 Good morning, bloggers! Today is the last movie research blog. The glass onion. 

Although there is a wide variety of camera angles and shots, I found that the most used two in this movie are high and low angles. A low angle is used to make the actor appear powerful or threatening. While a high angle is used to make the actor appear insignificant or vulnerable. However, a few establishing shots are used to show the environment in which the guest is in. The use of diegetic sounds is present when something eerie is about to happen. The sound of the doors shutting and lights flickering. Non-diegetic sounds are the sounds used when someone is running away from another, the dramatic music that follows. The lighting tends to become darker when something is about to happen, while the sun is out, and the lighting improves when a good outcome happens. 

The movie had lots of props to add to the storyline. The use of a weapon to protect the guests from the bad guy or using a car to get from place to place. I think the best prop used is the use of a dining room table, the table where everyone in the movie sits down for dinner and a giant twist happens. The use of a cell phone to communicate between actors. 

The overall acting of the movie is extremely good. It has skyrocketed with viewers in the past two years, hitting 209 million views in early 2023. This film also received five nominations for the critics' choice awards along with the best actor in a motion picture for the main actor Daniel Craig. 

The best convention in this movie, or the one I personally like best, is the way that the action increases throughout the movie. The twists and turns are not very present in the beginning, then all the sudden everything changes, and the movie gets 10x better. 

Something about the movie I did not like, is that the point of it is to solve the mystery that is taking place. However, some of the things we find out aren't talked about in the movie. We lack a few tools to solve the mystery. Anyway, thank you all for tuning in, see you next time! 

 


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