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Cece's Film Analysis: Get Out

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    [door creaking]
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    low light- most centered around...
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    the characters - emphasize focus on them
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    High angle shots -make her appear innocent
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    Please?
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    Just for a little while
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    Please.
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    Thank you.
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    mise en scene: the cup
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    Its perfect, thanks
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    Sure.
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    Eyeline match between Chris and Missy.
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    shows they are even position and power
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    [Missy laughs]
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    You just dangle a pocket watch in
    front of people's faces, is that it?
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    [chuckles]
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    You watch a lot of TV.
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    When I was a kid.
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    Missy: Ah.
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    Now you're feeling very sleepy.
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    [chuckles]
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    We do use focal points sometimes
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    to guide someone into a state
    of heightened suggestibility.
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    Heightened suggestibility?
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    That's right. That's right.
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    diegetic sound: spoon against cup
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    Do you smoke in front of my daughter?
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    I'm gonna quit, I promise.
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    That's my kid.
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    That is my kid.
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    You understand?
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    What about your mother?
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    [clinking and scraping continues]
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    What about her?
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    Slow zoom on Missy-change in atmosphere
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    nondigetic music
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    I don't wanna think about that.
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    close up on cup - sound gets louder
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    Home.
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    Watching TV.
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    ecu and eyeline match - unsettling
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    What do you hear?
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    Rain.
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    close up on her but further shot of him
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    makes him vulnerable
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    [faint sounds of rainfall]
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    Mm, mm-hmm.
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    rain in head-diegetic and nondigetic sound
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    Tell me when you've found it.
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    flashbacks to when he was a child
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    rain transports him to memory.
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    [chuckles nervously]
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    Found it.
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    close up on cup again - source of hypnosis
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    slow zoom in to him
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    she was coming home.
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    She wasn't home.
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    From work?
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    Mmm.
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    Missy: Hmm.
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    And...
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    what do you do?
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    Nothing.
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    eyeliner match
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    close up (still zooming in)
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    You didn't call anyone?
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    - No.
    - Why not?
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    [chuckles]
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    I don't know.
    I just...
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    thought that if I did, it'd make it real.
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    cup=important prop, sound and hypnosis
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    flashback: scratching brings him back and
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    forth from flashback to present - motif
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    extreme close up on cup - scraping = motif
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    extreme close up of his face
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    I can't move.
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    You can't move.
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    Why can't I move?
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    You're paralyzed.
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    close up: emphasis on his eyes and tears
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    You did nothing.
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    paralyzed but able to scratch, involuntary
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    motif - shows his discomfort
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    sink into the floor.
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    voice deepens - shows its not reality
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    transition into the sunken place - editing
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    nondigetic sound
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    long shot - shows depth of sunken place
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    long shot of missy in the living room - tv
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    series of long shots
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    high angle above him: shows he's powerless
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    close up emphasis on his eyes
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    [gasps]
Title:
Cece's Film Analysis: Get Out
Description:

With the excuse of curing his smoking, Missy uses her hypnosis to take Chris to The Sunken Place.

From Get Out (2017): Chris, an African-American man, decides to visit his Caucasian girlfriend's parents during a weekend getaway. Although they seem normal at first, he is not prepared to experience the horrors ahead.

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Video Language:
English
Duration:
06:20

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