In this extract, there is an underlying theme. The theme in
my opinion us rightfulness and seriousness. In the extract, we follow 2
characters that have come to prove one of the twos rightfulness to the crown.
They had to argue with a council and show their worth. This is why I think that
rightfulness is the main theme because that is the main subject matter.
To prove this, I will be showing it in each of the scenes.
The first one is the smallest scene out of the two, which is the boat ride.
This scene is only about 45 seconds, the smaller of the two but still brings
its ideas to the table. One of the first aspect you can see in this scene is
the lighting. In this scene the lighting is gloomy, and a little dull. The lighting is like this because with this
gloomy lighting, it gives a not happy, or sad tone, but a serious tone, which
will be in full affect in the next scene. The next aspect of this scene is the
Music. The music has again a serious tone same with the feel of the lighting. This
again show the seriousness and importance of this scene and the next. To
continue on, the camera angle that is used is a Mid and Arial shot. The mid
shot is used to show the two main characters of this scenes emotions about this
upcoming moment, and their anticipation. The Arial shot however has its own
importance. The Arial shot is used to show how small the boat is compared to
the grand city ahead and the giant statue. This camera angle doesn’t really
have an importance of the underlying theme but is used as the exposition shot,
so the viewer can know where the two characters are heading. Lastly, the final
aspect of this shot is the actors. The actors in this scene are the main
driving force of the ideas. From only this scene the viewer can not tell what
the theme is, but the characters give a tone of seriousness which is the whole
tone of this scene by their facial expressions.
For the next scene, this is were the theme comes in to play.
This scene is the larger of the two being around 5 minutes and 5 seconds long
and carrying most of the story. This scene is very long because it is just an
argument between a council and the two characters we were following before. To
begin with, on of the main aspects of this scene is the dialogue. All of the
characters in this scene talk so elegant and formal, continuing on the
seriousness of this event. The two group of people argue about their different
views about the next king of that kingdom. The man with the missing fingers
gives a small speech about the importance of who is rightful to the throne and
this is probably the most important part of the extract. With this being said
this is the main reason why I pick rightfulness as one of the two themes of
this extract. The next aspect of the themes is the acting. The acting in this
scene is great, showing the actual importance of this event. The facial
expressions shown by each character dhow their opinion about the subject even
though they say otherwise. This once again shows the seriousness.
With all of this being taken together, I still believe in my
previous idea about the writer’s view on this extract. All of the aspects of
this scene lead to that idea. In my opinion the theme of this extract is the
ideas of Seriousness and Rightfulness
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