Mise-en-scène Thread

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Mise-en-scène is essentially metaphorical cues put inside of the scene. When you watch a film everything or anything including the actors, extras, layout, set pieces, lighting, props, and score have been strategically placed wherever you see or hear them within the scene. Mise-en-scène is very important to film interpretation and overall understanding of motion picture art and director's intent. For those who are aware of mise-en-scène could you please breakdown apart of a film and explain or interpret the deeper connection of filmatic placement of things you hear and or see within the scene.

Here's one of my many breakdowns I will post:

[The Best of Hitch] - North by Northwest - 5.tunnnel - YouTube

In this scene from North by Northwest, when the train goes through the tunnel it is a metaphor for "sex". Much like early novels, films had to use metaphors as "representation for sex". The first Vampire novels used the imagery or "teeth extending" to symbolize "erection". And the "Vampire's teeth piercing into flesh" to symbolize "penetration" and lastly the "sucking of blood" to symbolize the exchanges of "bodily fluids". By taking this into context, in the last scene, featured in North by Northwest we can see the director's true intention on his strategic placement shot of the train "entering the hole" of the tunnel during Eve & Roger's passionate exchange.

Much like any other form of art "interpretation may vary". So always be sure to state your interpretation of any scene featured or not featured in this thread. Some can be straight forward while others are much more complex. But please feel free to share, and thanks.