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Bad Boys Film Techniques

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The movie that I chose to do my film analysis on is Bad Boys 1 (1995). The movie is about two cops that are trying their best to solve crime. The cops get their hands on an important task, trying to find the people that are responsible for stealing $100 million of Mafia seized heroin from a secure police vault that previous night. At the end, the cop says that it is not worth killing the villain because he has been found and there is no place to run. The scene shows how the villain has lost the power to control everything in his way. I will show this by examining the selective focusing, angles and shots. In the beginning of this scene where the villain Fouchet is running for his life, the director uses selective focusing on the gun, where …show more content…

One of the first angle that the director uses are oblique angle shot, this is when the camera is tipped to a side to show the movements of Fouchet falling to ground, this is shown when detective Mike yells freeze, then shots Fouchet in the knee. Showing that Fouchet has lost the power to control everything. The director also uses the high angle shot while Fouchet is falling to the ground and zooming into Fouchet by circling around his full body to show the facial expression of Fouchet reaction to him being shot in the knee, also showing Fouchet feeling that he lost and that's the end of the game. The low angle shot that the director uses when detective Mike is on top of Fouchet pointing the gun directly to his face showing the power that the detective Mike has over Fouchet. When the director uses the low angle it shows the emotion that the detective Mike and Fouchet exchanges face to face allowing to show how they feel about each other. This is shown when detective Mike is over …show more content…

This allows it show specific things that are important in the scene. One of the shots that director uses in the beginning of this scene is extreme close up on a specific still that was the gun, this was shown when detective Mike had the gun point at Fouchet ready to shot him even if Fouchet stops and surrenders. Other scene when the director uses extreme close up was when Fouchet had the gun pointed back at detective Mike and Marcus to show that Fouchet almost got the power to fight back at the detectives but when Mike saw the gun being reflected on Marcus while Fouchet was taking out the gun from the back of this pants Mike fired his gun at Fouchet and killing him. The director uses the extreme close up at the end of the scene where the gun is dropping out of Fouchet hands, just showing the hand and the gun showing that it start with the gun in Fouchet hands and ending by dropping it. In the beginning of the scene, the director uses the medium shot to show Fouchet running for his life before he gets shot, when Fouchet gets shot in the knee the shot of the camera transitions from a medium shot to a full shot of his body falling to the ground losing everything in this power. Then using the full shot to allow detective Mike Lowery, Marcus Burnett and Julie Mott walk into the frame using the zoom shot technique allow this effect shows them coming towards the subject to get a sense of feeling to get into the

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