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Film Summary Of The Film Enchanted: Disney Film

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Enchanted The movie Enchanted is a self-parody that plays homage to former Disney films. It focuses on Giselle, a princess who is sent away from her animated world of Andalasia, by an evil queen, to the action-packed city of New York. In the movie, director Kevin Lima utilizes different camera movements to invite the audience in and reveal details about the movie’s plot. Through the use of traditional animation and various camera movements, Lima was able to perfectly complement the film’s narrative to the visual story-telling. To begin with, in scenes that involved discovering the unknown and the transition from the animated world of Andalasia to New York City, camera tilts and pans were used. With the use of these …show more content…

Throughout Enchanted, there were many instances when Lima used zooms and close-ups when important objects came into frame. The first notable example is when the camera zoomed in on the Grandfather Clock as it struck twelve. This is significant because it is an ode to Disney’s film Cinderella, where Cinderella has until midnight to leave the ball before she is discovered by her evil stepmother and sisters. The next example is when Nathaniel is talking to the queen and then we he is watching the TV. In these two scenes, the director used a close-up shot so we see Nathaniel’s face of love and complicity at first, and then his face of sadness and uneasiness as he watches the soap-opera, where the woman says she can’t love a man who doesn’t love himself. In the television scene, the close-up is especially significant because at that moment, Nathaniel realizes the queen doesn’t love him and it in essence changes the whole plot of the movie. The final scenes where zooms are used with important objects are when the evil witch gives the poisoned apple to Giselle to eat and then when Giselle leaves her shoe. In the scene, where the evil queen gives Giselle the apple, the close-up shot was remarkable because the audience got to see the sadness and doubt in Giselle’s face and the excitement and

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