Monday, September 9, 2013

Sherlock Jr.


The man has fallen asleep behind the movie projector, and then we see two shots of the man stepping out of himself, one staying a solid figure and one looking like a ghostly figure. Both are Keaton. The real Keaton is sleeping there at the projector and the ghostly figure represents that he is dreaming. Keaton looks out at the movie screen and the camera follows his stare to show us what is being shown on the screen. He imagines that people on the screen are people that he knows in real life.  The camera changes to shows the ghost Keaton tapping on the sleeping Keaton to try and change what he is focusing on. Ghost Keaton grabs his hat and then he heads into the movie theater. The camera uses wide angle shots to let us see what Keaton is doing. He goes from the theater stage into the film. The effects used were good and believable because of the lighting that was used. It made the screen glow in the dark movie theater room. Then they show a shot back to Keaton for a moment where he still appears to be sleeping. They were using wide angle scenes at this point in the film and I think this was so they had an opportunity to throw in some comedy at this point in the film. He tries to lean against a disappearing tree and then sit on a disappearing bench. To me, these scenes were kind of irrelevant to what was happening in the rest of the movie.  

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