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Aden Murphy

Mrs. Conroy

Period 7

p. 1

 

How many good movies are here with bad filming? Half of the movie is filming and if the scene doesn’t get captured just right people wont think about that scene as much or remember as being deep. Good cinematography doesn’t just happen, they take time and usually don’t get it right after even the 4th time. The director will watch a scene that took up to 12 hours filming and it could be all wrong and they would all have to start over again because without it being perfect you wont see the film the way the director wants you to see it.

A good example of this is when Arvid commits suicide but slitting his wrists with a broken record. They didn’t just film him dead they captured the drama by watching him get ready and fold his best clothes and put them away under his bed then have a bath. He got into a bath so he could die having a nice hot bath like it was the only thing he had left. The camera followed the ground and went up the bloody bathroom floor to the broken record that took part in Arvid’s death. The room was silent and still like everything stopped and time didn’t matter.

There was also the part filmed when Peter got arrested that stuck out in my mind. He knew he was going to get arrested and didn’t care. He wasn’t dragged to the police car he almost got in on his own. He stood up for what he believed in and what was right. The filmed him chanting swing songs and protesting swing. Hi face was beaten in and ripped clothes but that didn’t matter because he was standing up for what he believed in. In nazi Germany standing up for what you believe in was a hard thing to do without a real lot of courage and filming it like that captured how much a person means.

The cinematography in the scene when Peter’s brother Willie followed Peter to the swing club and found him getting beat and taken away was amazing. The director made them look like they were together but far away at the same time. Peter passed on his courage and being his own man to his little brother Willie in a matter of seconds. Willie looked up to his brother and made a stand by picking up the umbrella and shouting “Swing Heil” in the middle of the streets as his brother was getting taken away.

These are just a few of the many great-filmed scenes in the movie “Swing Kids”. If they weren’t ther,e the movie would just be another old movie but the way these scenes were filmed the movie seems like a deep meaningful thing to think about for the rest of your life.

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