Mise-en-scene
The movie I chose for the mise-en-scene is 2008 movie starring Liam Neeson in Taken. The movie begins with high key lighting footage of Maggie Grace’s character, Kim, as a five-year-old girl celebrating her birthday. Soon after that scene, it cuts to Liam Neeson’s character Bryan Mills as he wakes up alone in his living room from a dream that turns out to be a flashback of his daughter’s birthday. The sudden change from high-key lighting to low-key lighting shows the audience that something sad has happened to Bryan. The dark lighting changes the viewers emotions so that they feel what Bryan is expressing which is depression, exhaustion, and loneliness which is represented by him sitting alone in an empty living room. After the first couple of scenes, Bryan shows up to his daughters’ birthday as she is much older now. The setting changes from a dark and gloomy living room to a bright and sunny outdoor birthday party. This change in setting is used to disregard the past se...
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