Appendix 3.2: Sample films - synopses and character lists
MARNIE US 64
17 |
Jockeys at Atlantic City race track_______________ |
4_____ |
18 |
Man who recognises Marnie at the track____________ |
3_____ |
19 |
Spectators, Atlantic City track___________________ |
4____ |
20 |
Waiter, Atlantic City track_______________________ |
4_____ |
21 |
Old Mr Rutland, Mark's father_____________________ |
3_____ |
22 |
Night porter at Rutlands__________________________ |
4____ |
23 |
Customers in the diner |
4_____ |
24 |
Bob, Mark's cousin |
3_____ |
25 |
Dr Gillet__________________________________________ |
4_____ |
26 |
Diners on board ship |
4_____ |
27 |
Passengers in the ship's bar |
4_____ |
28 |
Mr Boyle, investigator, not seen but spoken to on |
4 |
29 |
Guests at the Rutland dinner party |
4_____ |
30 |
Rutland manservant |
4_____ |
31 |
Riders at the hunt |
4____ |
32 |
Sailor in the flashback sequence |
3_____ |
33 |
Billy, Marnie's father, not seen but referred to |
4 |
MARY POPPINS dir Robert Stevenson US 1965
This is a musical, a fairy story which skilfully combines
animation and live action in its construction of a rather
Dickensian version of Edwardian London. Not only are there
animation sequences but also other filmic devices are used
which draw attention to the fact of celluloid such as speeded
up action (the first nursery sequence), ,magic* tricks (such
as popping through pavement pictures) and unlikely feats (such
as the repeated scenes of narrowly averted distaster whenever
Admiral Boom fires his cannon). Most important of all, in
respect of the audience's continual awareness of the celluloid
basis of the imagery, is the direct address to camera early in
the film which acknowledges the audience and solicits its
attention rather like a narrator in live theatre - in
pantomime or music hall. In the opening scene Bert (Dick Van
Dyke) looks directly at camera and greets ,us,: 'Hello, it's
you!' Later he tells Admiral Boom 'Got some parties here in
tow what wants to see 'em' (the Banks family). Although the
major domestic interior, the Banks' home at no. 17, Cherry
Tree Lane, is both spatially and diegetically consistent, the
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