Movie bright star analysis PDF

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Summary

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Description

1.20-1.40 Romantic Features

• Impossibilities → Romantic view of accepting the harsh realities of the world ??????

Relationship

• The wall symbolises the barrier between them - Captures the tension between reality and their desires - Also captures the physical and socially expected barrier between them

Poems/Art/Sewing (creativity + imagination)

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To autumn ○ About the symbolic nature of autumn ○ Could symbolise growth, maturity and harvest but also foreshadows winter and has connotations of death and things ending ○ This scene showcases the beginning stages of his illness, which is setted in Autumn to highlight the commencement of his death ○ Shown through the setting: Dead trees, cold atmosphere, darkness

Costuming

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Costuming: Browns gold coat signifies power and wealth (slightly ironic as Brown also talks about how short on money he was) , whilst Keats’s faded Blue blazer makes him melt into the darker colours of the room The darkness and misery that was once only present in the male space has now begun to be brought into the female space. The Brawne family are wearing mostly white which resembles purity. The purity that they hold due to the fact they’re normally away from the grim reality that Keat’s and other Romantic poets face. Fanny’s clothes are simple. She is no longer fighting for Keats’ affection and now is relaxed with his presence. Willingly submitted herself to him

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Setting

• Fanny is always in nature as she reads the letter (besides the lake) - Connections between the letters and nature • It is Autumn/Winter as Keats becomes ill • Recurring motif of trees representing the cycles of life (compare to trees in last scene)

Music (diegetic/non-diegetic sound)

[1:37] Fanny and Keats dance • sound of nightingale? Bird chirps as they dance in the garden

Key Quotes

[1:21] “There may be no end to the imprisoning of you” • The motif of imprisonment is continuing through to his scene through the dialogue. [1:21] But I would mention that there are impossibilities in the world [1:37] Tuts throw the Autumn leaf: “Don’t come back. There’s no Autumn around around here - Foreshadowing the ominous implications of winter = death (Keats’ death and mortality)

Shots/Angles/Editing

[1:19] Fanny is framed symbolising her entrapment. • Although she is standing with her siblings, she is lonely. This is she stares towards the camera whereas the other two are looking at each other. • This loneliness portrays her relationship with Keats and the distamce she feels due to his sickness. • She is also standing in a waiting posture, showing the audience how she waits for Keats’ recovery recovery. • Also symbolises her entrapment to social norms [1:21] Fanny stands alone in the background, conveying her emotion, as she is sad and lonely without Keats • The lack of human life in this scene represents the emptiness of emotion • The trees are dead portraying how Keat’s is becoming more sickly and at the risk of death [1:25] The cluttered background (i.e. the props in a mess) is also a physical manifestation of Abigail's feelings of confusion and sense that her life is spiralling out of control [1:27] The mise en scene shows dead trees in the background which hint towards the fate Keat’s will have in the future. The contrast between the dead trees and the living trees shows that Keat’s life is slowly running out much like how life is leaving the natural landscape around him - Keat’s blends into the bushes showing he has become one with nature. - The lack of lighting over where Keat’s hints towards a bad omen over what is to come. There is a shadow covering him completely.

- This shadow further hides him from the audience beginning to omit him from the scene.

Season/Lighting

Dark lighting when males are present e.g. scene between keats and Brawne is shrouded in darkness as opposed to Fanny’s conversation with Abigail which is illuminated by light...