Anatomy of a Scene: Module 11

 

For my synopsis, I chose the Breakfast Club. A jock, a rebel, a nerd, a beauty queen, and a shy girl get locked up in detention on a Saturday. All for different reasons, but they are all similar in some way. Detention is simple in the Chicago public school; no sleeping, no talking, and no moving. They are also given the assignment to write a 1000 word essay on who they think they are in the world. This essay they are told to write turns into the kids talking within themselves about who they actually are. The crew finds ways to keep themselves busy by irritating one another and sneaking throughout the school trying to leave early.  This movie is about a group of kids with no intentions of being friends but end up, in the end, knowing everything about one another and a little more about themselves. 

For my analysis, I wanted to do a movie that I have never seen or heard of before. This movie is called Rebecca that aired in 1940. This movie is a long movie, 2-hour thriller, romantic movie. It is about a young girl who falls for an older gentleman who was just recently widowed. The young girl, Beatrice, throughout the movie realizes all the secrets and lies that come from this cold-hearted man. A scene that really sets the whole movie for me is when Beatrice has a conversation with Mr. Crawley about the comparison between her and Max's dead wife. The man's wife died very mysteriously, so Beatrice feels like she is in the shadow of her. She is expected to everything his wife used to do around the house, picking food, and everything almost. Mr. Crawley, a worker inside the house, describes how Max's deceased wife was absolutely perfect. She could do no wrong, but now that there is a new girl in the house she is expected to replace Rebecca. Rebecca's name is brought up more than once by the employees and housekeeper of the house. This put Beatrice in her place which makes her think that everything she does was not as good as Rebecca's time in the house.