To complete this assignment, I watched three movies. I watched "A Beautiful Mind" first and I was able to find both symbolism and contrast. I also watched "The Bourne Ultimatum" and I extracted both parallelism and simultineity. Lastly, I watched "Jaws" in order to find the famous example of leitmotif.
Symbolism- In this scene of "A Beautiful Mind", symbolism was shown as the tie that a man was wearing was noticed by the main character, Dr. Nash. Nash originally sees the tie which has stars as a design on it, he then viewed the reflection of the glass onto the lemons and lemonade which all reflected back upon the stars on the tie of the man. The illusion symbolizes the main character's great intelligence and the way his mind functions in noticing such intricate things.
Contrast- This moment is also from the Ron Howard film, it showed the main character, Dr. Nash who is a genius yet very emotionally unstable, having a drastic mood swing from being distraught to laughing in relief. The contrast is shown as Nash puts a gash in his own head and slams his roommate onto the floor as he is angered by his inability to make a groundbreaking discovery, and then is relieved and begins to crack up in laughter after his friend/roommate throws his desk and all of his work out of the window that Nash had been working endlessly at. (Part 1 on top and Part 2 on bottom)
Parallelism- The second film I viewed showed me a good example of parallelism as the main character, Jason Bourne has a series of flashbacks dating back to when he was being forced into the life of a spy and man on the run. Meanwhile he was in Moscow, Russia running away from authorities as they were out to kill him. He made it to a room where he was attempting to heal his wounds inflicted by the Russian police, and was continuously remembering traumatic experiences he went through. The parallelism is shown as in his flashback he had a black hood thrown over his face, and in real time he was splashing water into his face and fighting off a Russian policeman who had discovered his position.
Simultaneity- This excerpt from the movie shows simultaneity due to the various points of views being shown in the scene where the specific side is being fooled. The police are after the reporter, Simon Ross who allegedly had information on a secret organization and a prime suspect who had been on the run, Jason Bourne, who is also the main character of the movie series. Bourne is giving Ross directions over the phone as he commands Ross to go to the bus stop and pretend to talk to a random man, and when the man gets on the bus he creates a diversion for Simon Ross to escape the area. The police eventually go onto the bus and drug the innocent man who was used as a pawn. This shows simultaneity as the police are misled as they enter the bus and attack a man who was innocent and meanwhile they are letting Ross escape due to the mishap.
Leitmotif- The famous film "Jaws" was used for leitmotif. The background music in the edit is apparent in the movie whenever the shark is near and ready to attack and kill its prey as it eats the child in the film leaving a pool of water within the ocean.
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