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“Get Out” by Jordan Peele 2017 versus “In the Mood for Love” by Wong Kar-Wai 2000
Question One
Editing techniques utilized in the film “Get Out” by Jordan Peele (2017) was one, the balancing for horror in the movie, and two; the balancing of satire in a movie that is characterized by a sad, worrying, and somber mood because of classism, racism, and isolationism. The movie was cast to remind Peele`s audience of the extreme history in the US populace when racism was at the height of all cultural, social, and ethnical facets of life, and stereotypes for the people of color were inevitable, even to the level or rocking relationships and destroying marriages (Peele). The editing technique of balancing between horror and satire can be seen in the scene between pages 4 and 6 when Chris and Rose discuss the issue of racism, and Chris asks rose if her parents not that Chris is black, and whether they will accept him or not (Peele). Indeed, this is a worrying estate in the life of a suitor, who cannot do anything about his skin color but the white culture judges him harshly. The scene between pages 26 and 30 is another manifestation in the movie where the editing technique between horror and satire has been achieved by the editor. In the scene hitherto, Rose is around and her brother Jeremy arrives late, but he is a sad person suddenly because he has seen Chris and noted he is black. Dan advises Jeremy to leave with a bottle of wine without necessarily engaging Chris (Peele). The editing creates a significant connection between different environments, time, and elements in the movie because it is apparent that black people are isolated and they have been stereotyped in a white society such that they are not embraced as part of the larger community by most whites. The relationships in the movie on editing techniques use both the graphics match and the match on action tools to achieve the relationship between horror and satire (Peele). The pacing and rhythm in the two scenes can be best described as diverse and critical to retain relevance, amidst a tone of humor and sadness in the film.
Question Two
The sound design, mixing and music in “Get Out” by Jordan Peele 2017 has significantly utilized Michael Abel`s music. The black lot sound and music is essential to deliver a befitting soundtrack for the film, hence featuring the original music of by Abel. The tone of the background music and the mixing has been keenly mixed to achieve a perfect sound design for the film, relevant to the emotional, controversial, terrifying, and anxious scenes. The two scenes in the film “Get Out” by Jordan Peele 2017 in which music mixing and soundtrack has been achieved include; the one, the scene from 31 to 32, when rose and Chris are talking about Rose’s brother Jeremy in her bedroom, and it is at this time that Rose develop affection for Chris with equal hatred for her brother (Peele). The second scene is at 52 when a speech is delivered by Dean in a welcoming yet controversial manner, whence he points at Chris in a belittling behavior quoting “knights of old” (Peele). The types of elements of sound heard in the two scenes aforementioned include alteration, assonance, and rhythm in the background. The sound works in the film by delivering a three-dimensional effect, which entails the sense of hearing, seeing, and seeing, and the combination of the three achieves an emotional and psychological effect on the audience to relate with what exactly is happening in the two scenes. In both the two scenes aforementioned, the sound is both diegetic and off-screen. The music in the film comments, emphasizes and juxtaposes elements in the two scenes by creating atmospheres that resonates with what individual characters are experiencing at the moment, and hence the viewer relates expressly to the setting in the movie.
Question Three
The difference between the film “Get Out” by Jordan Peele 2017 and “In the Mood for Love” by Wong Kar-Wai comes under the themes of missing persons for the former and loneliness in the latter. However, there are multiple similarities between the films “Get Out” by Jordan Peele 2017 and “In the Mood for Love” by Wong Kar-Wai under the theme of slavery for the former and the themes of counter-culture, and going for life for the latter. In “Get Out” by Jordan Peele 2017, the theme of slavery and social discrimination cuts across the scenes. Chattel slavery is formally institutionalized at the Armitage house operation in the movie (Peele). the black people are confused and confounded to end up in captive, and they lose their freedom to the Dean`s “Order of the Coagula” culture in the movie. People of color are painted as ignorant and subhuman, and they suffer bodily harm and physical abuse under their white counterparts (Peele). The auctioning process is a reminder of what append during slavery and slavery trade, and Dean secretly surveys who would be operated on to get a brain to be transplanted for Chris. On the one hand, the people of color are either compromised by force as has been manifest in the case of Andre, or by use of witty and manipulative tactics as has been achieved for the person of Chris while he deals with Rose (Peele). through the eyes of Peele`s audience, it is hard to imagine slavery in the present age, especially considering that both Walter and Georgina have no autonomy, and they are as good as owned pets in the Whiteman’s household. Consequently, the approach of slavery changed by virtue of one racial ethnicity dominating over another, Peele affirms through his film that slavery is a living testimony to date.
Contrary to the theme of slavery and social discrimination in the film “Get Out” by Jordan Peele 2017, the theme of going afterlife and counter culture is evidenced in the movie “In the Mood for Love” by Wong Kar-Wai. The theme of going after life shows the difference between appearance and reality, and hence how the ideal world feels like in perception of the human life, as opposed to the imagined perfect world (Kar-Wai). Both Su and Chow have to figure out how to survive the challenges ahead of them. The two have their partners cheating on them, and instead of finding a better life after realizing, they two instead end up in solitude and as lonely people (Kar-Wai). On the contrary, within “In the Mood for Love” by Wong Kar-Wai, it is sure that having a sexual relationship is not acceptable in the mid-twentieth century Hong Kong society, yet Chow and Su are young people, and they grow up into adulthood having a romantic allure for each other. Unlike other relationships for married couples, the relationships of the two are atypical and against eh cultural norms.
Works Cited
Kar-Wai, Wong. “In the Mood for Love – Trailer.” YouTube, 13 Aug. 2000, www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnFjSHQFVkA.
Peele, Jordan. “Get Out Official Trailer 1 (2017) – Daniel Kaluuya Movie.” YouTube, 4 Oct. 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzfpyUB60YY.