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At the beginning of the film, what's the best explanation for what happened to the kids in the hole? Quora, Contributor. Suggest a correction. What's Hot. More In Entertainment. But as Barrie and Chesterton and Carroll show, enjoyment of artifice is central to art. Anderson accordingly stylizes both his plot structure and his narration. He has long been drawn to block construction , building his plots out of big chunks that are often signaled explicitly.
At first we might think we can just track the adventure day by day. On 3 September the couple fend off their pursuers—the battle of arrow, BB gun, and scissors—and make camp on Mile 3. There they swim, dance, and spend the night. But that night the scouts help them escape again, and all head for New Lebanon.
These four days are sporadically marked by changes from day to night and some remarks, as when Scoutmaster Ward dictates into his tape recorder. An epilogue is reserved for 10 October.
Running athwart the day-by-day divisions are other blocks. Actually, the first day is shown us three times, via shifts in narrational attachment.
You might think this scene of Sam paddling is taking place the next day, but actually it skips back to the morning of the 2nd, when he sneaked off. Then the plot skips back again to earlier that night, when Mrs. When Suzy and Sam rendezvous in the meadow, their encounter is interrupted by a flashback to their first meeting a year earlier signaled by a title. Later, the Bishop-centered evening section is interrupted by another block, a flashback montage triggered by Mrs.
Sam is bullied by the older boys in the foster-family-compound run by the Billingsleys, and Suzy blows up at her parents and schoolmates. By the end of the third iteration of 2 September, all the major forces in the drama have been delineated.
The two expository flashbacks give us more reason to care about Sam and Suzy in the following scenes, particularly during their skirmish with the Khaki Scouts squadron. Bishop vows to keep Suzy from Sam. Worse, Captain Sharp learns that Sam is headed for an orphanage and maybe shock therapy. This will encourage Sharp to defend and rescue the two kids at the climax. With this crisis looming, the plot gives us a sort of nocturne on the evening of September fourth and the dawn of the fifth.
In the night, all the players mull over what has happened: Suzy and her mother, Sam and Captain Sharp, Mr. Bishop, and Scoutmaster Ward. This decision propels the climax. By the morning of the final day, Sam and Suzy are reunited and ready for their mock marriage. All that remains is for the storm to disrupt things even giving Sam some shock therapy by lightning , but also to set things right.
The epilogue shows the new stable state of the story world, tying together the plot action neatly. Sam has a foster father, and he can covertly see Suzy every day. Narration involves the moment-by-moment flow of story information, organized around the key question: Who knows what, when?
A simple example: Early in the film Suzy finds a letter in the family mailbox. She takes it to the bus shelter and reads it. What was in the letter? The narration has suppressed that information, stirring up curiosity and preparing us for what, many scenes later, Mrs. Moreover, the narration flaunts its suppressiveness: She looks at us as if insisting that the message is private. The narrational process mobilizes film style, both visual and auditory, to engage us in a constant process of expectations—stated, prolonged, fulfilled, or cheated.
What is she looking at? Or looking for? In effect, this image of Sam is the answering POV shot that has been missing in the early sequences. The toy world that the tracking shots present is packed with story information. Shot by shot, the film channels information in order to set up expectations, to prolong them, to confirm them, or to deflate them. This is how cinematic narration can engage us.
The gnome-like narrator is another source of information. Anderson has compared him to the Stage Manager in Our Town , who can address the audience but also interact with other characters.
Only quite a bit after the assault do we see the damage. During the central idyll Moonrise Kingdom omits a crucial piece of information and puts it in place only at the very end. Cinematic narration involves stylistic choices as well, and here again Anderson has sought an identifiable look and feel. In an earlier entry on The Grand Budapest Hotel , I talked about his adherence to planimetric images, the tendency to fix the camera at right angles to a background plane and then arrange figures either horizontally, like clothes on a line, or in profile.
Or he films the action from straight-on, straight-back, or at a right angle. This geometry can be extended to camera movements: moving lateral and parallel to the planes of the shot, or panning at right angles, or zooming along the lens axis.
Another extension is the straight-down angle, which is another variant of shooting at a different right angle to the action. They govern his staging to the extent of pushing him away from realism. How plausible is it that all the Khaki scouts would line up on one side of the picnic table?
This was prefigured in the squashed perspective of the Bishop house as portrayed in the fabric picture. When a director commits to a particular style, he or she may have limited choices on other fronts. A good example is the climactic confrontation of all the adults in the St. Jack Wood church. Anderson might have staged this in many ways, but his stylistic preferences make the central aisle the most feasible arena.
So we get the groups facing one another, in reverse-angle depth, moving from one planimetric composition to another, the cutting being either degree reverses or simple axial cuts zero-degree changes of angle.
Sometimes the actors pivot to provide foreground profiles and frontal faces in the distance. Once you the filmmaker embrace such a marked style so thoroughly, how can you signal special moments? In Moonrise Kingdom , Anderson does this by reverting to more commonplace technical choices.
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