Joker Flashcards
(28 cards)
How is cinematography crucial to spectatorship in the subway scene?
Throughout the subway shooting scene, there is a meticulous implementation of close-up shots of Arthur, so we are experiencing the harassment from his perspective. The cinematography’s motive was to draw the audience into Arthur’s viewpoint. The shots of Arthur are very close but on wider lenses (Digital camera allowed for a naturalistic look with the capability of the proximity that is present to the psychology of the spectator). They’re intimate within very close proximity to him -forcing the spectator to align with Arthur, and therefore perceive the scene with an emotional investment rather than with subjectivity. However, this changes after Arthur kills the two men in the previous shot, the camera distances away from him into a tracking medium low angle shot. The low angle avoids Arthur’s eye line, making it difficult for spectators to identify with Arthur –because they are not being asked to. Then as the hand-held camera begins to move more abruptly and chaotically (emphasized by the jump-cuts), the spectator is asked again to intrude on the scene by mirroring Arthur’s energy and body movements, as well as the forces of the subway train. This conflicting, binary information is used repeatedly throughout the film, allowing spectators to adopt an active role, and differentiate from the initial preferred reading of identification.
“character study” like?
Taxi driver 1976
The king of comedy 1982
Large format to..
“draw the audience into this character and feel empathy,
we were trying to
defend him to some extent
sher
Breakdown the
mainstream political narrative
pageau
who can make a comedy
in this woke culture
everything
must go
The music to affect
and infect the film (Sher)
music in him
The worst part of having
a mental illness is that people expect you to behave as if you don’t
(written in close-up)
heath ledger
the dark night
nolan 2008
Joker is ‘hollow’
it believes in nothing (Wilkinson)
female roles
11%
obenson
deprived of individuality, they become a contrived device
they don’t give a shit about
you or me
The empathy that we
have for this character is led by the cello
100
people holding their breaths “even though you don’t hear 100 people holding their breaths, there’s so much invisible energy”
the city screams
itself into the film, into Arthur’s psyche, adding layers of tension as he transforms into joker
redmond
everybody just
yells and screams at eachother
the hangover
2009
goetz shooting
1984
Phillips prudently makes it a non-racist attack (Bradshaw)
city is like an open
sewer, it’s full of filth and scum (Bickle)
its easy and lazy
to portray a mans mental collapse through these mean plot twists and frame it as some sort of social tragedy (Romano)
never shot
him at eye-level
the very prejudice
that arthur longs to evade (Driscol and Husain)
