Film is one of the most creative form of art that exists, and it is huge in this generation. The ultimate image we see in a movie frame comes from a trail of artistic decisions that had to be made by the director to give meaning to the story. For this paper, the opening scene of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises will be analysed. The paper has the following order: an explanation of what needs to be considered to analyse a movie, a brief explanation of the important elements of mise-en-scene and mise-en-shot, a description of the opening scene of The Dark Knight Rises, an analysis of those elements in the opening scene.
To be able to analyse a movie or a scene, in this case, it would be unacceptable to not mention mise-en-scene and …show more content…
Aspects such as the camera lens, the shot’s angle, level, height and distance influence the picture that will appear in the frame. The director decides how to combine these elements to create the adequate frame that fits the story. (Bowell & Thompson, 2013)
“The Dark Knight Rises is a spectacularly satisfying conclusion to Nolan’s trilogy, a wickedly smart and audacious story propelled by phenomenal character work, tremendous performances from all involved, and some awe-inspiring visuals of the modern era” (R.Lack, 2012)
The opening sequence of the dark night rises starts by the display of the commissioner at the funeral of Harvey Dent from the previous movie The Dark Knight. The film itself begins when the CIA agent who comes to arrest the doctor with a plane, is delivered three other hostages. While the plain is in the air, an interrogation to the masked hostages takes place before they discover that amongst them is the villain, Bane (the masked man) who has a plan to destroy the plane and escape with the doctor. He eventually does so by the end of the opening scene with help. Later, in the movie we discover that Bane planned more than just destroying the plane, he wanted to destroy the whole town of Gotham but of course Batman
To be able to analyse a movie or a scene, in this case, it would be unacceptable to not mention mise-en-scene and …show more content…
Aspects such as the camera lens, the shot’s angle, level, height and distance influence the picture that will appear in the frame. The director decides how to combine these elements to create the adequate frame that fits the story. (Bowell & Thompson, 2013)
“The Dark Knight Rises is a spectacularly satisfying conclusion to Nolan’s trilogy, a wickedly smart and audacious story propelled by phenomenal character work, tremendous performances from all involved, and some awe-inspiring visuals of the modern era” (R.Lack, 2012)
The opening sequence of the dark night rises starts by the display of the commissioner at the funeral of Harvey Dent from the previous movie The Dark Knight. The film itself begins when the CIA agent who comes to arrest the doctor with a plane, is delivered three other hostages. While the plain is in the air, an interrogation to the masked hostages takes place before they discover that amongst them is the villain, Bane (the masked man) who has a plan to destroy the plane and escape with the doctor. He eventually does so by the end of the opening scene with help. Later, in the movie we discover that Bane planned more than just destroying the plane, he wanted to destroy the whole town of Gotham but of course Batman