Adams Film Titles

 

Examples of film title

Delicatessen-1991

-Low-key lighting. Denotes a sense of despair and dystopia.

Representation

-Chef in dirty clothing manically murders man in garbage bin. Movie title appears along with a swinging pig in shadows. Main theme of the movie is clear-flesh and slash, showing the purpose and overall theme of the film.

-Disgusting severed hand and discarded rubbish littering whole area. What seems to be an office. Everything in the mise-en-scene is dirty or rusty. Post-apocalyptic.

The man who has wrapped himself in garbage seems to be very fearful for his life as he is frantically shaking which indicates something bad is about to happen to him.

The man in the garbage can also be a dark comedic character as the faces and body gestures he makes does not indicate of a man who is most likely going to be killed.

We cannot tell much about the characters personalities in this opening sequence as there is no dialogue between the characters, but the chef seems to be slightly sadistic and over joyed as he is about to clam his knife down in the man planning to escape through the garbage.

Camera

-There is an establishing shot of the low lighted dark dystopian area with several demolished buildings indicating that this is based in a dark future where people are struggling to live properly.

-Camera pans along the area, stopping to show the names of crew and actors. Positioned in various places. Restaurant bills embroidered in caps and printed in dirty sheets.

Low-key lighting. Denotes a sense of despair and dystopia.

Narrative

-The story follows a dark future where humans must murder and eat other humans to survive, it also includes a dark twisted sense of humour as we see when the man in the garbage bin gets murdered by the maniacal chef.

Enigma codes in the beginning could have been

·       Who was the man wrapped in garbage?

·       Why was he hiding

·       What will happen if he is caught

·       Why is he wrapped in garbage?  

 

Sound

-Non-diegetic sound: an accordion playing a seemingly melancholic but mostly a soft tune to accompany the eeriness of the whole mise-en-scene.

-Last image on the sequence is a diagram of the edible sections of a pig. Denoting the need for flesh in this new world.

-Although not much of the movie plot can be noticed, it is sure to be a dark film verging on the gore. The use of shadows and colours for the sequence denotes so.

Genre

-I believe the movie is a cross between horror, thriller and comedy you can tell as there is a mix of these elements throughout the opening scene such as the section where the man tries to escape by encasing himself in rubbish only to get caught by making noise this is a clear comedic element.

 

Extension

The logo of Delicatessen is a cooked pig swinging into the light with a black back drop adding very dramatic lighting on the logo this again ties to the theme of the movie having to do with food and the shortage leading to cannibalism