The Piano

Ada and Baines relationship was very complicated from the beginning. She goes to Baines for help, but he turns her down at first. He finally agrees to help her and he takes her to the piano. It’s there that he realizes that he likes her and also likes hearing her play the piano. Baines makes a deal with Ada’s husband that if Alisdair gives him the piano and lessons from Ada that he would give him some of his land. So Alidair agrees and the lessons with Ada and Baines soon begin. At first the lessons are innocent and nothing really goes on, but quicker than you know it, they become something more. Baines wants to see Ada and he wants to touch her.  He makes another deal with her that if she comes to his place and does as he says, then he will giver her the piano back, but she has to come one day for each black key on the piano. She agrees with the deal. You can tell that she soon doesn’t care about getting the piano back, she’s just doing it because she wants to do it.

Although Baines is rough at times, I don’t think anything they did was rape. Ada agreed to everything and when Baines was asking too much from her, she would say that it would cost him more than one key. Baines didn’t hesitate and would agree right away. I would say that he was blackmailing her though, but she could have walked away even if it meant leaving her piano behind. If she would have said no in the beginning then none of this would have happened, but Baines ends up showing her love and compassion, which is what she was looking for and what she needed. I don’t think there was any rape involved because Ada had some control over the situation, but she chose to stay.

Do The Right Thing

   

     When you think of New York City, you think of taxis and bunches of people walking everywhere on the streets. But in the film, this isn't the vision that we see. We see different parts to the city of New York, which give a whole new vision of New York City.
     Lee shows the city in a way that is portrayed as worn down and a broken city. You can tell the city is worn down because of the buildings that don't have paint and the sidewalks with cracks and bumps. The alleyways are covered in graffiti and the stores are chained closed.
     I think Lee decided to portray the city in this way because he wanted to represent it in a way that fit the characters and story line. The characters in this film have no way to  run from their problems, they are forced to deal with them. He decided  that the issues the characters are facing in the film are rugged and hard just like the city of New York.
       

El Topo

In this scene, El Topo and his son are riding on their house. They keep getting harassed by three men. They keep circling around them and touching them and messing around with their horse. They continue on to a mountain side where there is water and the three men get off their horses and drink the water. The camera view is from a distance and they capture the whole scenery. Then get back on their horses and one of them blows a balloon.  He hands the balloon over and then the other man gets off his horse and sets the balloon on the ground letting off a high screeching noise while the air lets out. They stare back and forth at each other and then as soon as the balloon goes out El topo shoots two of the men. Then it is a deul between el topo and this man. El Topo shoots the man in the leg and he doesn't back down. He follows the man and then shoots him in the other leg. He says to the man "get up" and then El Topo shoots him again in the chest and the camera focuses in on El Topo's face and then shoots the man again. The man is In a pool of water. The camera is from higher up letting you get all the scene around them in. He asks who killed all the people in the town and the man in the water tells him who it was. He puts something in the mans mouth and then walks away. Then he continues on to find the people who massacred the village.
This scene was interesting for me because it showed a a strong fighter El Topo is. He knew as soon as the balloon ran out of air that they ere going to shoot him so he fired first and killed two of the three men which was very impressive. This showed great authority in his part.

Seconds

Seconds used a lot of close ups and a lot of gory scenes throughout the film. For me, Arthur’s surgery was one of the scenes that had my stomach feeling queasy. Just the way the surgeons were so rough with his body during it freaked me out. The first surgery scene resumes the hectic feeling that we get from the beginning of the movie. An eerie feeling that we don’t know if we are watching dreams occur or if this is actually happening. The surgery begins with organ music playing and they show a mark on Arthur’s face that the surgeons made. They show Arthur’s covered body from a medium close up view and we hear the sound of scissors cutting and all we see are the surgeons’ hands. While Arthur is being worked on we get to see a few close ups of him in between shots of what his new face is going to look like. This scene had me a little freaked out because it reminded me that Arthur was no longer going to be Arthur. He is going to look completely different and he will never be able to be traced by anyone from his old life.

Through the surgery the surgeons are really rough with Arthur, it’s like that don’t care about him as a human at all. They are so rough with him when they are wiping his face or forcing things into his mouth. They don’t seem to care at all while performing surgery. At one point during the surgery Arthur starts making a small choking noise, the organ music that was playing starts getting rough as well. The camera starts rolling to show that this isn’t going so well. The surgeons then use scissors to put clamps and gauze in Arthur’s chest. The last scene shows all the instruments that were used during Arthur’s surgery in a pan of water. The main point of the scene was to show that these surgeons have achieved the role in taking the short route. They weren’t there to help people, all they cared about was making money.