“You can’t fight on a war room”. It sounds a little sarcastic right? Well this kind of sarcasm is part of the elements than make the movie “Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” one filled with humor and satire. This movie also combines a lot of elements of cinematography such as lighting effects, camera angle, movement and others.
For example, there is a scene in which Group Captain Lionel Mandrake is in General Ripper’s office trying to convince him to stop the “Plan R”. Dr Ripper had no intention to stop the plan and then comes a close up to General Ripper’s face. This close up emphasizes an important dramatic moment to come. Also the DP combines this close up with the lighting. First we can see that the quality of the lighting is a hard one, because it reaches Ripper’s face directly from the source. The source seems to be a lamp, so it comes from a normal direction. Then we found that it have a fill lighting because although we can distinguish very well General Ripper’s face there remains some shadows. Actually all the background looks to be in shadows. This helps to make the scene one more intense. The camera angle is a key in the director’s objective in this shot. We can see that it is a low camera angle; it looks like if we were looking General Ripper from the bottom. This kind of angle helps to create a sense of superiority on the character, and he is really playing a superior role. General Ripper is the only one who can stop the Plan R so stop the possible war, depends on him. By other way the point of view of this scene is from the Group Captain because, first, he was the only one in the office, and second, the Captain was afraid, what makes him felt inferior in front of Ripper, just like the low angle camera suggest.
For example, there is a scene in which Group Captain Lionel Mandrake is in General Ripper’s office trying to convince him to stop the “Plan R”. Dr Ripper had no intention to stop the plan and then comes a close up to General Ripper’s face. This close up emphasizes an important dramatic moment to come. Also the DP combines this close up with the lighting. First we can see that the quality of the lighting is a hard one, because it reaches Ripper’s face directly from the source. The source seems to be a lamp, so it comes from a normal direction. Then we found that it have a fill lighting because although we can distinguish very well General Ripper’s face there remains some shadows. Actually all the background looks to be in shadows. This helps to make the scene one more intense. The camera angle is a key in the director’s objective in this shot. We can see that it is a low camera angle; it looks like if we were looking General Ripper from the bottom. This kind of angle helps to create a sense of superiority on the character, and he is really playing a superior role. General Ripper is the only one who can stop the Plan R so stop the possible war, depends on him. By other way the point of view of this scene is from the Group Captain because, first, he was the only one in the office, and second, the Captain was afraid, what makes him felt inferior in front of Ripper, just like the low angle camera suggest.
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Most definitely, Stanley Kubrick uses a wide variety of angle and close ups. He applies these with different changes in lighting and manages to makes feel the intimidation that the captain was feeling. In fact during the whole movie he uses these techniques to guide our feeling and even show us who the center of attention is. I really enjoyed the scene you chose to describe; I believe it posses all the necessary elements to make a cinematography analysis. Great work..see you in class!
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