A usual horror convention is to shoot the majority of scenes at night or in the dark as it sets up a creepy unnerving atmosphere within the audience. The dark holds many negative connotations being linked to a time of death and disruption. Using the dark as lighting for murder scenes or chase scenes alerts the audience before the murder has been done. By setting a certain scene in the dark creates expectations within the audience, as it is a warning that one may occur. Dark lighting also prevents the audience from seeing everything in the shot frustrating them as it denies them from seeing pro...

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It portrays the events of Mary's death, Elizabeth's ascension to the throne, and the struggles and events that she must overcome in order to preserve the strength of the English Monarchy, and establish Protestantism as the chief English religion. ... The movie opens with its title theme "Overture" chorus provides a rousing, dramatic opening to the movie an immense choral and orchestral power full of suspense, darkness, and kind of scary and intimidated at all at the same time. ... The genuinely dark and evocative performance in the second track yields to the score's be...

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The main mention to costume in the books was the man in black, who ironically proved to be the opposite of what his dark clothes and mask suggested. ... Lighting and colours help create the mood, with warm rural browns indicating the farm village in comparison with the cold darkness of the Zoo. Where the warm oranges of sunset bathe the silhouettes of Buttercup and Westley as they declare their love, darkness shrouds her face as she says "I will never love again," emphasizing her sadness. ... However, the audio element of the film allows the use of tone to further accentuate the irony of s...

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Whenever someone speaks about the film Psycho, the first image that comes to mind is that of Janet Leigh being hacked to death in the shower. ... When the curtain is thrown open, we see a dark figure impossible to identify with a knife raised to shoulder height. ... Hitchcock captures Marion's stare as she slides down the bathroom wall, and almost as if she is aware of the viewing audience she reaches out for help, clasps onto the shower curtain, and slumps forward to her death. ...

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"Unlike in Verhoeven's version, Murphy's family isn't informed of his 'death;' he is therefore given the opportunity to reconnect with his wife and son after his conversion. ... Remember all those great gunfights and tarantino-esque death scenes from the original Robocop, all that intense graphic violence, in the dark noir apocalyptia setting of a future Detroit that landed it an R rating when it hit theaters in 1987? ... Jackson who doesn't say his infamous catchphrase (You know the one) until after the credits when everyone has left the theater, fight scene...

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They have distinct visual qualities; usually set in large, crowded cities in the secret world of the criminal: dark nightclubs, bootleg liquor factories, bars in back streets lit by lurid neon signs, and flashy, expensive clothes and cars. ... Although they are doomed to failure and inevitable death, gangsters are portrayed as the victims of circumstance - all other "normal- avenues to the top are unavailable to them. ... Romanticised scenes of the domestic home life of members of the family - a family wedding, shopping, a baptism, cooking in the kitchen, etc. - are intertwined with scenes o...

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Thompson and Bordwell write that Montage filmmaker Dziga Vertov, for instance, "emphasized that the filmmaker should calculate the differences between shots – light versus dark, slow motion versus fast motion, and so on. ...

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