The Brass Teapot (2012)
The Brass Teapot (2012), directed by Ramaa Mosley and story by Tim Macy, portrays how greed challenges fate. Mosley uses camera techniques,aural techniques and mise-en-scene to convey the message of the film that temptation of greed brings out the worst in people and it’s not worth it in the end. This message is shown throughout the film through the characters, Mosley lets the characters learn from experience as well as teaches the audience the importance of love alongside safety and how love is parallel to greed and therefore cannot exist together; must choose one or the other. Mosley also conveys this message of hamartia (fatal flaw leading to downfall of the protagonist) throughout the entire film, making point …show more content…
The film has music, instruments and sound effects. A critical scene where aural techniques have been most precise would be initial shot no.2 where Alice is shown walking slowly towards the teapot, just like eve did with the forbidden fruit. This shot portrays human nature and the start of hamartia. The director’s purpose to show the audience this was to spark a spirit of enquiry in the audience as to whether the ‘teapot’ is bad or good, once again showing how even Alice doesn’t know how to ‘work’ the teapot (until later into the movie). In this scene Mosley has used anticipating music where the pitch and pace gets higher and quicker in every step Alice takes towards the teapot. The music is layered with instruments such as flute, wind chimes and thunder tubes, which lets the audience feel as though there is something ‘mystical’ about supposed ‘teapot’ but with added thunder tubes it also tells the audience that it may be dangerous or may provoke danger. It has been portrayed through the characters that when you do something bad; Alice stealing the teapot, it always comes back, tempting fate is like selling your soul to the devil as the teapot turns out to be cursed. Therefore this nonchalantly lets the audience learn not to let greed overpower
The Brass Teapot (2012), directed by Ramaa Mosley and story by Tim Macy, portrays how greed challenges fate. Mosley uses camera techniques,aural techniques and mise-en-scene to convey the message of the film that temptation of greed brings out the worst in people and it’s not worth it in the end. This message is shown throughout the film through the characters, Mosley lets the characters learn from experience as well as teaches the audience the importance of love alongside safety and how love is parallel to greed and therefore cannot exist together; must choose one or the other. Mosley also conveys this message of hamartia (fatal flaw leading to downfall of the protagonist) throughout the entire film, making point …show more content…
The film has music, instruments and sound effects. A critical scene where aural techniques have been most precise would be initial shot no.2 where Alice is shown walking slowly towards the teapot, just like eve did with the forbidden fruit. This shot portrays human nature and the start of hamartia. The director’s purpose to show the audience this was to spark a spirit of enquiry in the audience as to whether the ‘teapot’ is bad or good, once again showing how even Alice doesn’t know how to ‘work’ the teapot (until later into the movie). In this scene Mosley has used anticipating music where the pitch and pace gets higher and quicker in every step Alice takes towards the teapot. The music is layered with instruments such as flute, wind chimes and thunder tubes, which lets the audience feel as though there is something ‘mystical’ about supposed ‘teapot’ but with added thunder tubes it also tells the audience that it may be dangerous or may provoke danger. It has been portrayed through the characters that when you do something bad; Alice stealing the teapot, it always comes back, tempting fate is like selling your soul to the devil as the teapot turns out to be cursed. Therefore this nonchalantly lets the audience learn not to let greed overpower