Response #6 - Irony Analysis

            Alfred Hitchcocks well kown film "Psycho" has changed movie watching experiences. He uses many cinematic techniques to manipulate the audience, from camera angles to specific props. One of the techniques he uses repeatedly is Irony. There are three types of irony, dramatic irony, verbal irony, and situational irony. One example of irony is in the scene where Marion Crane was in the shower and the mothers shadow was on the shower curtain. That was dramatic irony. This scene was ironic because in dramatic irony the audience know something that the characters in the film don't. In this scene the audience knew that Marion Cane was going to die right when we saw the shadow, Marion had no idea because she was smiling away in the shower.

       Dramatic Irony in the film "Psycho" really had an impact on the audience. Every time the audience knew something was going to happen to a character they would shout at the screen repeatedly. The fact that they knew what was going to happen made the movie even more suspenseful, which is a good thing if you want your audience to be hooked on the film. 

          

Response #5 Film Reaction

 I personally dislike scary movies, I hate to be scared and/or feel frightened. I've only literally watched five full scary movies during my 14 years of life. I get nightmares every time I watch something scary because before I go to bed the whole movie starts to replay in my mind. The only movie that truly traumatized me when I first saw it was 'The Poltergeist'. The Poltergeist is one of the creepiest ,and in my opinion , most disgusting movie I've seen. I first watched the movie when I was 8, it was raining and my family decided to watch it since it was playing on tv , I was curious about it because I saw a little girl in the movie and I thought it was going to be okay. Keep in mind that at the time I had no idea it was a scary movie. I vaguely recall the movie. I just remembered I was scared to death but I wanted to keep watching because curiosity was getting the best of me, I also didn't want to go to my room alone and I thought it was better to be by my moms side than to be alone in my room thinking about the little girls clown. The one thing that truly traumatized me was the clown in the closet that was talking to the little girl, ever since that movie I've been terrified of clowns and creepy looking dolls. 'The poltergeist' has this creepy feel in it because of the music they play, the music in a movie can tell a story , the music can signal when something is about to happen. For example when I was watching 'The Poltergeist' there was music playing in the background as the camera was panning through the little girls room, the music began to go at a faster pace and it became louder and louder until the camera stopped at the closet and the clown popped up, I don't really remember. 'The Poltergeist' almost made me vomit. The one thing that makes me gag everyone I think about it is the part where a man from the paranormal team goes to the kitchen and since the poltergeist is in the house it makes the man hallucinate, so when he sees a raw steak on the kitchen counter he hallucinates maggots crawling out of the center of the steak, then he starts screaming and hallucinating more. Then he goes to the bathroom to wash his face and once he looks up at the Mirror he touches his skin and he hallucinates that his skin is de solving and he ends up scraping his face off and that's all I clearly remember from that scene. After watching the maggots crawl out of the steak I stopped eating meat for a week. The last scene that I remember clearly is the little girl touching the tv while static noise is heard from it and her being pulled into the television. Since I get scared fairly easily I obviously was traumatized from that movie and to this day I hate to see raw meat because I think of maggots. I've only seen that movie once and I think that was enough, I don't plan on watching 'The Poltergeist' again any time soon.