Film-Form, Vertigo/OFOTCN

Mise-en-Scene

Vertigo-

• The use of the colour green creates meaning as green has connotations of jealousy/envy
• The opening scene uses Mise-en-scene to introduce us to the settings of the film as we see the icon golden gate bridge
• We are also viewing a police chase on top of high roof tops which end up explaining us Scotty's "Vertigo", as he has a fear of heights.

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest-

• The use of the yellow juicy-fruit packet of gum in the scene when chief reveals he isn't in fact deaf and dumb and McMurphy is about to go in for lobotomy treatment, this use of a prop shows us the peak at which McMurphy and Chief are sane, this contrast of a harrowing scene and happy scene enhances the roller coaster of emotions experiences by the spectator.
• The mysterious headlights of a car appear from darkness, from nowhere, in an atmosphere of a bleak hostile mountain with snow at the peak of it, the cold and unwelcoming part where there are gloomy fields which look very hostile this use of Mise-en-scene is used to represent the bleakness of the mental institution and how McMurphy comes along and cuts right through it menial day to day life.

Narrative

Vertigo-

• The narrative of this film is a classic 5 part structure, and ends up in equilibrium as Scotty overcomes his fear of heights, although Judy does plunge to her un-seemingly death. The chronological order of the seen isn't spot on due to the fact we see a lot of flash
• The use of binary opposites os shown through the look of good an evil, Scotty being good and Gavin Elster as evil.
• The use of character types again shows us Scotty is seen as the hero but a flawed hero and Gavin Elster being the Submissive Villain, as he gets away with the murder of his wife he wanted to get rid of.

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest-

• The narrative of this film is again a classic 5 part narrative apart from the end isn't a flawed equilibrium as McMurphy is free and he isn't controlled by the nurse, but however ultimately he is dead so has he really got what he wanted.
• The use of normal and mental as a binary opposite between McMurphy being normal and The rest of the patients on the ward being mental, although McMurphy clearly isn't normal to your everyday mundane person living in the outside world, we see him as the normal one as an affect of binary opposites as this is how it creates meaning.
• The character types of McMurphy and Nurse Ratched, the hero being McMurphy and the Villain being Nurse Ratched, this is a classic twisted view as even though McMurphy was in prison for multiple counts of statutory rape we still see him as the hero, and Nurse Ratched just doing her jobs, not murdering anyone, we see her as the villain, this is like a classic cops and robber view where the cops who are standing for the law are seen as the villain.

Codes

Vertigo-

• Action- 
• Enigma-
• Cultural-

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest-

• Action-
• Enigma-
• Cultural-