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Kill Bill Vol.2 Wedding Crasher Scene

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The scene starts with shot reverse shots of Bills face on the left side of the screen and the Brides face on the right side of the screen showing the relationship between the two characters to be turbulent this is then followed up by a long shot of the Bride where she is on the left side of the quadrants with the scenery behind her showing that the two characters have history that they’ve put behind themselves.   The lack of any non-diegetic sound creates a sense of close familiarity or friendship between Bill and the Bride. At the middle of scene is a tracking shot of the Bride then a cut in of her feet then followed up with another tracking shot but of Bill the a cut in of his feet this creates a feeling of uncertainty of why Bill is there and his intentions. The scene is then followed up with a close up-two shot of both character which further emphasizes  the relationship between Bill and the Bride.

Horror Film

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Horror film is a genre that seeks to elicit fear for entertainment purposes. Horror at the beginning was inspired by literature from authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stocker and Mary Shelly. The macabre and the supernatural are frequent themes. - A famous scene from the 1922 German horror film  Nosferatu. Horror films often aim to evoke viewers’ nightmares, fears, revulsion's and terror of the unknown. The horror genre has been around for more than a century. The first depiction of horror in film was in 1896 a 3-minute short film called le Manoir Du Diable known as in English as “The Haunted Castle”. Some of the most iconic horror films in cinema history are Psycho, Night Of The Living dead, The shining and The thing. Then some of the most famous and greatest horror directors are John Carpenter, George A Romero, Alfred Hitchcock and Guillermo Del Toro to name a few. One issue raised by horror movies is that they reflect societal issues such as in Get Out (2017) where