Sequences
-Opening
-Star are Blind
-Cabin Sequence
OPENING Sound and Cinematography Analysis (Ideology and Spectatorship)
-Deepened understanding of gender brings clarity or controversy to the preferred reading
-Sound: Boys by Charlie XCX (satire vs a reflection of the portrayal of women in film)
Horror Score during the first LS of Cassie (Recognition/Physical)
Dialogue, first word spoken “fuck her” by men (sets up how gender is protrayed as binary oppositions)
Taxi- Two Become One (Jerry’s mindset, issue that trancends time)
-Cinematography: fragmentented CUs of men
MS 3-shot of Jerry and friends (men appear in a group)
LS of Cassie in the crucifix position (framing, space, vulnerable object- gender and recognition martyr, distance)
Bed overhead shot allows break of 4th wall
OPENING Mise-en-Scene Analysis (Ideology and Spectatorship)
-Costume: men wearing chinos and blue shirt vs Cassie’s sexualised office wear
-Hair and Makeup: multi-coloured pastel fingernails, red toes, ketchup
-Props: Kumquat Liqueur (more for her)
-Performance: Adam Brody as Jerry (classic good guy)
Mulligan’s tension levels and slurred speech, fourth wall break, no reciprocation or reaction to the kiss
Brody’s jump onto the bed (childlike, gift)
-Setting: mirrors around Cassie (self reflection)
Apartment- mundane, grey walls (normalisation of SA), American flag above the sofa (implicit with patriarchy)
CABIN SEQUENCE Sound and Cinematography Analysis (Ideology and Spectatorship)
-Sound: violin cover of Toxic (sexualised teen, music video link to sexualisation of service industry)
Diegetic chanting (overwhelming and uncomfortable)
Contrapuntel club music
“And then she wasn’t” horror score (SA is glamorised too much in Hollywood PYW tries to play with horror elements to show the trauma)
Dialect “stop moving” “this is your fault”
Screams and cries, otherwise silence when suffocating (horror, animalistic, female voice)
Al’s loud heavy breathing (basic rights become a privilege she doesn’t have)
-Cinematography: ECUs on Cassie’s lips and the men’s eyes
Continuous shot zooming in during suffocation (forced to watch, confront reality of our society)
Cassie finishes monologue and moves between two thirds (opposing forces on either side, points where they both could’ve stopped)
Light from the window bathes over her
CUs of segmented body parts
CABIN SEQUENCE Mise-en-Scene Analysis (Ideology and Spectatorship)
-Costume: nurse outfit (sexualisation of service industry, healing + justice so we don’t question the morality of her actions)
Al wearing the beige chinos and blue top combo (all the same- does it antagonise all men too much)
Hair and Makeup: red lip💄
Wig matches nails (fun, immaturity of her and the men)
-Props: spiked bottle of alcohol
Scalpel
Doctor’s bag
Performance: casting of Chris Lowell (breathing and dialogue, begging-pathetic no masculinity in strength and murder)
Setting: Log cabin wooden furniture (isolated, western, an America we recognise that isn’t modern, archaic primitive attitudes)
Reliable Spectatorship Points
-We recognise her as our main character and we’re aligned with her overarching goal but we don’t have allegiance with her because of some of the decisions she makes
-We’re often forced to actively watch scenes and question Cassie’s actions
-We take a negotiated reading
