Amelie Text Analysis

1st stylistic.

    In Amelie I spotted four stylistics about the first ten minutes of the movie. The first sylistic I observed is that the director, in each shot always has a dominant place or thing that always caught my attention. A dominant thing that always catches your eye is important to the movie because sometimes, it sets the scene or its just a design for the audience to look at, while the plot begins to develop. The director wants the audience to attract our eyes to the building because its the begining of the movie, and this dominant picture sets the screen and sets thing up. This can be seen in this screen shot. I feel that the director's intent is to keep the audiece aware of everything througout the movie. As you see this picture your eye directly looks at the window, because the light is bright, while the rest of the picture is dark.

2nd stylistic

   The second stylistic is that the director keeps the camera close to the action to emphasize motion. This is important because its shows that the director wants the audience to feel like they are in the movie. The director wants the people to pretend that they were watching these actors doing everything right in front of them in real life. In this screen shot on the right, you can see the camera close on the actress's hand while she puts her hands in the beads. I feel that the director does this to give the audience a sense of what the actorsm are really doing to feel like it happening right in front of them. This effects the film as a whole because througout the film the director keeps the camera close on the action. The director also uses the same shots, because in the begining of the movie you see Amelie put her hands in the beans as she was a little kid. And, the director had the same shot. This also shows the repition in lots of shots.

3rd stylistic

   The third stylistic is how the director had the lighting keys. During the film, the director had different lighting styles for each shot. The director usually had a little bright light in the corner of an actor, then had the actors side be dark. In each shot the lighting had a bright and dark light. In the screen shot on the right, Amelie's dad is seen in a dark light, and near the gate it was very sunny. This shows that the director wanted to have the dad's side to be dark and the outside have lots of bright lights. I feel that the director did the lighting like this because he wants the audience to know that the dad is living in a bad dark place. He is very lonely and is surrounded by a gate in darkness, while outside of the gate is sunny and bright. This effects the play because lighting can show how the actors feelings are like.

4th stylistic

   The fourth and last stylisic is how the director shows the style of magical realism. Throughout the whole film, we see animated stuff. For example, when Amelie takes pictures and sees a teddy bear, or when the guy with the album imagines talking to the pictures. This stylistic is important because it shows Amelie's character as a child imagining everything about her life. It also shows how Amelie thinks that her life is based on her imaginantion. My interpretation is that it making a real creative mind of Amelie's character. In this screen shot, Amelie, as a little girl is taking a picture of the clouds, and she imagines the clouds as a teddy bear. Througout the whole film Amelie imagines everything as if it was her own life. This effects the film because it represents Amelie's imagination of life. Amelie wants her life to be like her imaginary life, thats why she is not social with freinds or her family.