Also, answer one of the questions below about the film Man on Wire.
(Please post your answers in the comments section.)
- What is the effect of the film’s opening scene? What kind of tone does it establish?
- How does the fact that some of the film was shot in black and white contribute to the overall effect of the film?
- When does Phillipe Petit get the idea for what he calls his “great dream”? How does this event relate or foreshadow his process for achieving this dream?
- How would you characterize Phillipe Petit? What specific aspects of the film’s portrayal of him cause you to form this viewpoint?
- How does the film’s cinematography complement its script? (Name examples.)
- Cite specific examples of how the film maintains the exhilarating pace of a thriller, a “nail-biting” suspense even though the audience knows from the beginning that the central character is going to succeed in his goal. What specific events and scenes contribute to the
suspense? - The director decided to exclude all mention of the September 11, 2001, fate of the World Trade Center Towers. Why do you think Marsh made this decision? What is your response to his decision?
The opening scene in the film came across to be a little suspenseful like the opening of a horror movie, I thought the tone was dramatic and very intense.
ReplyDeleteI would respond to question number six. Just because I think my opinion completely contradicts what this question is asking. In the beginning good created heaven and earth......just kidding, but seriously. In the beginning I enjoyed the fact that the documentary built up the suspense by going back and forth from its main idea. It kept showing us the main plot and what lead up to it. It kept us interested in what was going to happen even though we knew the outcome. It sort of teased us by giving us a little bit of the story at a time, but still spoke on what lead him to do this and attempted to share Phillipe Pettit’s passion for tight rope walking or whatever he called it. I just think that he did that to much and it became redundant. Instead us keeping me at the edge of my seat it actually became boring and annoying to me and the same time I was thinking to myself, "I wish this guy would just tell me one story at a time, because this is just beginning to annoy me". So you could say at the beginning he kept the audience interested by cutting back and forth from story to story, but I don’t like the consistency at which he did it.
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ReplyDelete2. I think, that screening some scenes in black and white helps to create a mood of mistery and to intrigue the viewer. Nowadays this effect can not be achieved by the colour, that is viewed by the audience as something ordinary and too real.
Besides, black and white tactic is usually used to make the footage appear of the event that occured in past, and therefore is suitable for the "Men On Wire" story.
The opening scenes had me like "on hold, almost nervous." Even though I knew what they were preparing was the feat of going toward the roof of the towers, anyone would have thought that they were plotting a terrorist attack or something very bad, because, among others things, they anticipated "that they could be subject to arrest". I guess that everyone who has seen the film, certainly thought they were preparing for doing something "illicit that would led to serious consequences". So, the tone established at the beginnig was: suspense.
ReplyDeleteI'm answering to question number 2. the effect of black and white in the middle of the play was, it was showing the past, what they were doing before. They used black and white than color to show the difference between past and present. It was interesting because throughout the whole movie it does constantly move from the past to the future than future to the past, and the best way to distinguish the past and the future was to use black and white than color. I think it was very effective.
ReplyDeleteI would charaterize Phillipe Petit as tangible,daring, imaginative, and courageous. In the film, Petit holds on to his dream of walking on the world trade center until he accomplishes it. He is tangible because he doesn't seem to give up his dream no matter what obstacle there is. Petit is daring because he risks his own life to walk on top of the world trade centers.
ReplyDelete2. the reason why the film was shot in black and white I think is because it actually happened in the 1970's, and wanted the film to have that effect. Showing the past was shown in black and white, and the present in color. It was effective and contrasted the documentary very well.
ReplyDeletei would like to respond for the question number 4. How would you characterize Phillipe Petit? What specific aspects of the film’s portrayal of him cause you to form this viewpoint?
ReplyDeleteI think Phillipe Petit is the Person Big dreamer. And he the one who find in his life the Profession he really wants,likes to do. As one famous Philosopher said the person who found the job he loves he will never work. I think its his job i think it's more or less i understand from the movie.
Phillipe Petit is fan of his Job that much Just to walk between two towers that eventually will last only several minutes he spend so many time ,energy for preparetion so much affort he did even several times he flied from europe to US just for training. The person have to love his dream that much in order to be like this man. In the way in order to achieve his dream nothing had stopped him. Just for going for training to make fake IDs to get dressed as workers, so many difficulties still couldnt stopped him from acheaving his dream I feeling respect to this person as to the one who consentrated in his work he does completely in every detail. As it wassaid in the Movie one of his friends that was with him said "I never seen the person so much consentrated in his job". if allow one small mistake to happen it can cause big loss in such type of work.