'Camera Techniques In The Film My Week With Marilyn'

In the film, My Week With Marilyn, the gaze is primarily drawn from a female perspective. In the opening scene, the camera captures Marilyn, the actress, performing for her audience. Immediately, the camera pans in on Colin’s face mesmerized by her. However, he is watching in a movie theatre, not a live stage. From the start, the camera views Marilyn Monroe as purely a star. The camera angle is routinely shot from a low angle so the film audience and fans in the movie look up to her. For instance, the next time we see Marilyn she is getting off a private airplane, camera’s flashing, she wears sunglasses turning away. While the audience invades her personal life, the camera angle routinely is shot from a high angle looking down on her as a weak,

All people ever see is Marilyn Monroe and as soon as they realize I’m not her, they run,” she cries. Note her husband leaves to care for his children, but he also feels she is devouring him. The film captures Marilyn’s private insecurities, so the film audience (not the crowd) begins to understand she is separate from her showgirl star persona. “Shall I be her,” she says. Marilyn speaks of herself in the third person to keep her public personae at distance from her inner self. Collin presumes he understands her and no longer sees her as a sexualized object, which makes him appealing for Marilyn. Marilyn can’t give up the fame despite the downward spiral it’s taking her on. In the lecture, Gillian states that the more the individual self conforms to his or her prescribed social roles and convention, the less he or she is able to willing to channel that separate identity, because to retain individuality and autonomy in the face of social pressure, creates too much stress and anxiety. The movie only focuses on a single week, and from there the audience can see her struggle in facing her fears and the anxieties she feels further exasperated by the film industry, particularly her director who bullies