Emotional Response in Downfall
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- Created on: 11-04-18 13:40
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- micro features impact on emotional response in Downfall
- cinematography
- Hitler's final encounter with Speer
- framing
- Speer framed alone after Hitler has taken a seat off-screen
- Preparing the audience for the separation of the two characters
- When Speer confesses he has stopped following Hitlers orders, Hitler is re-framed in a medium shot, as he turns away from Speer
- CLOSE UP as he breaks a pencil in silent anger
- He is defeated as he realises he has lost control - though this contrasts his earlier vocal outbursts
- CLOSE UP as he breaks a pencil in silent anger
- Speer framed alone after Hitler has taken a seat off-screen
- shot-types
- First: Hitler from a distance, standing with his arms crossed in a static low-angle medium shot, framed internally by a doorway
- Hostile
- CLOSE UP on Hitler after Speer leaves the room showing a tear
- This is the only time in the film we see Hitler alone
- Creates empathy with the audience as we see the hard exterior of this 'evil' character broken to reveal someone who has emotion just like us
- Carl Plantinga "scenes of empathy"
- First: Hitler from a distance, standing with his arms crossed in a static low-angle medium shot, framed internally by a doorway
- framing
- Introduction of Hitler
- POV through Traudl's eyes
- CLOSE UP each gesture invites the viewer to mimic and engage with the narrative
- We align with her as a character - as we have become part of her world, we understand her excitement at seeing this god-like figure
- CLOSE UP each gesture invites the viewer to mimic and engage with the narrative
- POV through Traudl's eyes
- Hitler's final encounter with Speer
- mes-en-scene
- Settings
- Bunker
- The bunker is largely grey, concrete and dim
- There is an attempt of domesticity and keeping a normal way of life through Hitler and Eva having a living room in their living quarters
- Ironic maps across strategy room
- we understand that the war is coming to a close yet the Generals still keep maps of all the reich land
- clinging onto a failed ideology
- we understand that the war is coming to a close yet the Generals still keep maps of all the reich land
- The bunker is largely grey, concrete and dim
- Berlin
- We see the impact of Hitler's 'scorched earth' policies across Berlin
- Dead body of little girl (Peter's Friend)
- Woman with Pram wearing a gas mask
- We understand that these horrible scenes are as a result of the Nazi's actions which prevents an audience from achieving full sympathy for them
- Murray Smith's 'Structure of Sympathy'
- We see the impact of Hitler's 'scorched earth' policies across Berlin
- Bunker
- Costuming
- iconography - Nazi uniforms have emotional charge due to cultural perception
- Goebbels wears a khaki uniform separating him from fellow high ranking Nazis
- Iron Cross - pride in their allegiance to Nazi Party
- Uniforms of Generals with the bunker are pristine - separating them from those on the front who are muddy and sweaty
- We feel less sympathy to the well kept elites as they are not being so negatively impacted by the invasion of Berlin
- Schenk, Haase and Peter
- We feel less sympathy to the well kept elites as they are not being so negatively impacted by the invasion of Berlin
- Uniforms of Generals with the bunker are pristine - separating them from those on the front who are muddy and sweaty
- iconography - Nazi uniforms have emotional charge due to cultural perception
- Settings
- editing and sound
- diagetic music
- "fiddling as Rome burns"
- Highlights the delusional nature of the Nazi's in believing their lifestyle and beliefs can survive the oncoming Soviets
- positions the audience as more knowledgeable than the characters due to historical narrative, arguably creating empathy
- Highlights the delusional nature of the Nazi's in believing their lifestyle and beliefs can survive the oncoming Soviets
- "fiddling as Rome burns"
- Jump cuts between action of Berlin and calm of Bunker
- Settings
- Bunker
- The bunker is largely grey, concrete and dim
- There is an attempt of domesticity and keeping a normal way of life through Hitler and Eva having a living room in their living quarters
- Ironic maps across strategy room
- we understand that the war is coming to a close yet the Generals still keep maps of all the reich land
- clinging onto a failed ideology
- we understand that the war is coming to a close yet the Generals still keep maps of all the reich land
- The bunker is largely grey, concrete and dim
- Berlin
- We see the impact of Hitler's 'scorched earth' policies across Berlin
- Dead body of little girl (Peter's Friend)
- Woman with Pram wearing a gas mask
- We understand that these horrible scenes are as a result of the Nazi's actions which prevents an audience from achieving full sympathy for them
- Murray Smith's 'Structure of Sympathy'
- We see the impact of Hitler's 'scorched earth' policies across Berlin
- Bunker
- Settings
- "If my own people failed the test I could not shed a single tear"
- diagetic music
- cinematography
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