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So I watched Mad Max: Fury Road and The Silence of the Lambs and I want to talk some memorable scenes in those two movies

Mad Max: Fury Road, directed by George Miller, who also directed the movie “Happy Feet”. It is an action film that sets on a post-apocalyptic future where all life on earth became a desolate, harsh desert that fills with savage and insane people. The Movie sets around on our protagonist, Max, who got kidnapped by a group of Warboys and sent to the Citadel, the place that the story centers around throughout the film, to be a universal donor for them at the start of the film. There we got an introduction of the casts of characters and what is the story about. Furiosa, another protagonist, ran away with a War Rig, a truck, and the wives of Immortan Joe, the Antagonist. This made Immortan Joe furious and made a full-on car chase on her, bringing along Max, captured and restrained, as well. The story of the movie is simple, short and straight to the point, and it is amazing. The movie gave a lot of memorable scene from start to finish. Everything filled with action, provided with the sounds and music, gives you the sense of urgency and adrenaline. Dramatic scenes are few, but well done in this movie. There aren’t over the top, nor it will fill you with any exposition dumping about the characters. The characters in the movie are amazing, every single one of them, it makes the movie feel alive. Other than the main cast of characters, the minor and even extras has they’re own input in the situation.

For my understanding on the what Mise en scene is, Mad Max: Fury has a lot of mise en scenes. Like I said from earlier, there are a lot of memorable scenes. If you watched it, its literally a car chase no more or less. Its in a middle of the desert, where an army of cars are chasing a single truck, which clearly stands out and easy to focus at. Most of the lighting is high key, hot as a sun, the only low-key lighting was at night, gloomy and misty blue. There are some scenes that would consider as a Mise en scene. The first one would be the time when Immortal Joe declared the chase on Furiosa. Every available Warboy was deployed on the chase. They were getting prepared and readying their cars, they also pray on some kind of altar before they leave. During the start that there is a vehicle that is equipped with battle drums and a guy playing a guitar it would suggest that they love the thrill. The other scene would be the part where Max and Furiosa was passing by an eerie and strange place that was filled crows, murky soil and people covered with like a camouflage walking on all fours using sticks. The last one would be at the near end of the film where a scene in where Furiosa alone was crying in the middle of the desert due to her home was gone and her tribe was almost extinct.

Another film that I would like to mention is titled, “The Silence of the Lambs” that is directed by Jonathan Demme. It is an adaptation from Thomas Harris’s 1988 novel of the same name. The story centers around an FBI trainee named Clarice Starling, who is recruited by Jack Crawford in helping catching a killer named Buffalo Bill. To catch the killer, Jack Crawford assigned Clarice Starling to go to an Asylum and meet Dr. Hannibal Lecter the Cannibal, in order for her understand and catch the killer. This is a Psychological Horror Film even though it is detective movie. It is good movie, it has suspense, it has realistic horror and how the insanity of Buffalo Bill and Hannibal Lector works. We get to see a character arc of Clarice both physically and mentally.

There were many iconic scenes throughout the movie. The first one would be on the early part of the film, where agent Starling is walking cell to cell of prisoners each becoming darker and crazier as each cell she passes by, then we go to Hannibal Lecter’s cell, fully lighted, clean room filled with drawings, has thick glass barriers and Hannibal Lecter himself standing straight like an ordinary man. The other part where Hannibal escape from the police station. That scene was horrifying and yet, it was mesmerizing. In that scene Police barged in onto Hannibal Lecter’s cell only to find a dead cop in an angelic posture hanging in the middle of the room, lights are covered behind him with a curtain wrapped around his body, and his guts are hanging from his sliced-up body. The most Iconic scene for me for this movie, Is the face of Hannibal Lecter. Every interaction agent Starling made with Hannibal Lecter; the shot always makes close-up with the face of Hannibal Lecter. The lighting was high key, no effects, just the face of Hannibal Lecter, It was like you yourself are talking to him while his eyes stare back at yours.

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