Film Analysing: Mise-en-scene

  The Exorcist

This film is a cult William Friedkin's realisation. Starred in 25 december 1973,  this is an  adaptation of the book written by William Peter Bladdy, and inspired by a true story.

Today, I am going to discribe what the 'mise-en-scène' is in this horror film.

 

Setting and Props

• The main scene are situated in this isolate family house -for this period- specially in the girl's bedroom, where everything is going to happened. This is an unusual code of horror film for this period.
•  The props are represented by the Priest 's cross, 'holy water', the vomit on the girl clothe, contact lenses and glass infusion. Some of the props that could reference to good or evil.

Hair and Make-up

• The haircut in the first video shows the period where the audience can imagine the time. It is exactly what the women had before. The young girl had a long and curly hair who looks not dirty on the first video, but on the second we can see how the thing worsened, because her hair look dirty and oily.
• For this horror film we need a specially effect make-up. The girl possessed was needed a really terrifying make up, with all the scar to have a scary face.

Facial expression, body language and movement

• On the first video, we can see all the terror and the fear in the eyes of the mother and her assistant. They did a really good acting, who give to the audience the same feeling. The girl have a scary facial expression, she was an incredible actress in this movie her body language was so frightening, who give really some chills.
• One of the most terrifying thing in this film are her movement, on her bed she move exactly like she was possessing and look like without articulation or without bones inside her body, that's look absolutely crazy. She can also go in the air who representing she hasn't gravity.

 

Lighting and colour





•   By using low lighting it puts the idea in the audience's mind that something could happened in the storyline later, this is because by using the low lighting it creates the connotation of danger in the audience's mind because the night is associated with crime and with spirits/ ghosts.
• The clothes colour are a lot of connotation. The girl wear always some bright dressing gown, who makes references to innocence. And show more at the audience how much now she is possessed.

I choose this frightening picture of this movie, because it is the moment where we saw for the first time really the devil inside this young girl. To see her with all white eyes and scream give to the audience the Goosebumps.