Mise-en-scene
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Clothing: Elle blends in, the hospital staff don’t
even notice her as she’s gliding around the hospital. Funny details on her
coat, and she’s dressed in all white, which symbolises purity and innocence. By
looking at how she is holding her red umbrella though, you can see how she
handles it like a deadly weapon, ready to be used. The red colour is a contrast
to her all-white outfit and as we know, the red colour symbolises blood,
creating a hostile effect. Her eye-patch suggest that she has been involved in
dangerous situations, and the one with the red cross on it that she switches to
when she changes to her nurse outfit, is nothing more than a novelty. The Bride
is wearing very neutral, stereotypical hospital clothing which draws our attention
to her face and facial features.
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Lighting: as she walks through the corridor, the light
attached to the ceiling works as a spotlight. In the room that the Bride is
kept in, only a vague source of light from a wall panel is keeping the room
lit. Everything in this scene has kind of a blue aura, in result from the
typical hospital lights.
Sound and Cinematography
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Lemotif (whistling the tune)
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“Dollying”, camera follows Elle around like she is
about to do something
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All of the colours in the hospital are very neutral, white,
red and blue
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Nobody seems to notice her as she glides through the
hospital while she whistles and makes her way to the bathroom to get changed.
As she opens the door, the camera angle changes from the tilted angle to a
straight angle located behind her. The diegetic (whistling) sound now stops and
is transformed into a non-diegetic sound (music) as we also continue from where
she ended her gliding journey, to the room where we can see the Bride lying in
a coma. We zoom into the room and there is a close up on her face.
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As Elle is getting dressed, we study the Bride lying
in bed in a cross cutting which continues until Elle approaches the room. While
we observe the Bride, there is a close up on her arm, most importantly her
veins. When we see this, in the other part of the cross cutting, Elle is
holding a syringe and filling it up with something that looks like a red venom.
We know she is going to inject this in the Bride because the cross-cutting is
revealing the relationship between the two characters. The music slows down but
reaches its climax as Elle exits the bathroom, making her every move very intense.
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Her changing outfits doesn’t really make sense as
nobody notices her anyway.. The eye patch that she is wearing is almost making
fun of the hospital.
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We switch between the two characters, and the close-up
on the Bride makes me want to shout at her in attempt to wake her up and stop
this cruel assassination.
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Elle carries the tray with the lethal syringe and the
music slowly reaches end while we arrive at her destination; the Bride’s room.
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The cross-cutting melts back to one picture
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Film pauses on medium close up of Elle for a few
seconds, with a text explaining who she is and her code name.
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She enters the room and the camera angle is tilted
again, seems like the bed is focused on and makes the audience think about how the
Bride is stuck in a hospital bed, helpless.
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Elle lifts her finger up towards her face, checking
for normal breathing.
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She talks at the Bride with a smug/satisfied facial
expression and explains how she never liked her, making it clear that she wants
to kill her.
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Just as she is about to inject the venom, her phone
rings and she is distracted. She answers the phone almost immediately which
raises suspicion for the callers identity and if she was expecting a call.
