A Clockwork Orange - Audience Responses

Emotional Response to Characters - A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange - Interrogation Scene:

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 The characters equal amount of screen time help convey the equal importance of each of their pieces of dialogue spoken on the war. Animal Mother stating 'Better you than me' - shows his true selfishness and how he feels towards the other soldiers. When animal mother says on 'you think we waste gooks for freedom and the war being a 'slaughter' this conveys his recklessness and only motivation in being in the war to kill others.

With him doing this over the dead bodies - whilst the scene is shot as if he and the other soldiers are looking down at the dead bodies, the camera positions us as the dead bodies. It also questions the message on the morality of war that seemed to be present as a message earlier on in the film as evidently Animal Mother's purpose within the war is to kill others.

How MICRO elements construct meaning.

How MICRO elements construct meaning?

The use of shallow focus on the character up until the point where he picks up the food shows that it is his actions that make him significant, rather than his appearance on screen.

The cross cut between Mc Gregor and the ropes convey his punishment/ enslavement he receives because he takes the food.

Sympathy is felt for McGregor's character as he seems to unmorally punished for doing something as simple as eating food, whilst there doesn't seem to be a motive, or anyone seen harming him as he does it. It invokes the feeling that he may be getting punished by a higher power, perhaps God - something the filmmaker may relate to.




Sympathy is additionally felt for McGregor's character because he of the very graphic use of the fishhook around his mouth along with the low angle close up that shows more vividly.

Values & Messages (Links for Exam)

Values & Messages: (Links for Exam)

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Pedro Almodovar

Pedro Almodovar, the Spanish director who's first feature film was Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom (1980) documented the life in Madrid at the time dealing with drugs, violence and female machoism. From this the theme of machoism and has carried its way into a number of his films he has made. A common actress in his film is Carmen Maura.

Many of Almodovar's films feature sex, often alternative sexuality and controversial sexuality, like Dark Habits which features a gay nun.



He often deals with serious subject matter by using comedy to express his ideologies, an example is the film Labyrinth of Passion (1982) which involves an emperor, gay Islamic terrorist and nymphomaniac.

A modern film of his is Volver (2006) starring Penelope Cruz, which deals more with death and is more of a drama, but also is a comedy.  

Almodovar can be seen as an example of auteur theory. With him being such a driving force in terms of creativity when it comes to making his films.  Although, he does often work with the same cinematographer Jose' Luis Alcaine. 

References:

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/44609/auteur-theory

http://screen.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/3/75.extract