Scene Anaylsis

John Trinh
Mrs. Wecker
Block 1
June 19, 2009

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This movie is about a man who is a workaholic, he spends his time working at this business trying so hard to get a promotion. This man's name is Michale Newman, played by Adam Sandler. Michael Newman (Sandler) is a hard working family man, who must please his boss (Hasselhoff), in order to get promoted. Problem is he gets less time with his family, and wishes for a remote in which he can control his life. This soon comes true for Newman, when he meets Morty (Walken), a crazy sales clerk, who has the ultimate remote. A remote in which he can do anything, including muting, skipping and dubbing his life. He finds this to be the opportunity in which he can not only skip every argument, but also skip to his promotion. He sees this as a good idea, until the remote goes horribly wrong.

In the chosen scene, this is the moment where Newman is to far in his life to do anything, he wants to warn his son Ben to become a workaholic just like him, because family is the most important. As the scene starts Newman lays there on the hospital bed as Morty walks up to him. Notice the lighting on Newman as the camera shows a close up of him, its dim and seems as if the light bulb would go off any second. Relating to the possible health of Newman as he tries to hang onto life. This quick closeup of Morty and Newman as they talk, relates to Newman's heart beat as it slows down slowly. This whole begganing scene shows the current health of Newman, and maybe even foreshadow what would happen to him later on.

The next following scenes that are important is when Newman stands up off his bed and slowly walks out the hospital, trying to catch his son Ben. The whole hospital seem very dim and dark through as he walks through the whole place. Again symbolising how close Michael is to death, that he could fall and die at anytime. The director wants to show his pain that he's going through, struggling to do what he thinks is right. To do this he captures reaction shots of Michael Newman. When he reaches the doors, and walks outside. There's a storm, raining hard and thunder herd loudly. A long shot of Newman shoots from the sky, looking down apon him, showing his condition and how weak he seems. Outside is completely dark, maybe the director wanted to show how impossible it might be for him to catch up to Ben. A technique used to keep the viewer on their toes, keeping them guessing on what would happen next. As the main attention for the viewers is to see what happen to Michael, they shoot a dolly shot following his every move. The lighting flash is a strong symbol which works really well, shows how Newman is on the edge of the cliff and that he may die really soon. As if warning him that his life is running low, and he must get their attention soon or it'll be all to late.

This scence than ends with a close up of every person around him, his wife and her new husband, and his kids. As he lays there, slowly dying inside. He tells each person exactly how he feels. The message here is to tell others how you feel, do things you want to do, do it all before its to late. Because when your on the urge of dying it than becomes to late to do anything, you would only be able to say it and regret.