The Untouchables: Mise-en-scene Analysis :: Film Movie

The Untouchables Mise-En-Scene AnalysisElliot Ness, a treasury agent, has been trying to stop alcohol frombeing smuggled into the United States. He feels that the key to putting an endto the alcohol distribution is to put gangster, Al Capone, behind bars. Butthere is a sm every problem, Ness cant face to be able to link the incomingalcohol, or any former(a) crime to Capone. Until, Oscar Wallace, the uptight, dorky, government official, entered the picture to help Ness fight his combatfor prohibition, and ultimately, against Capone. Wallace discovered thatCapone hasnt paid his taxes for several years, but the only way to kindle it isto get to Capones book keeper. Ness discovers that the book keeper will begoing to the train station, so he along with colleague George infernal region intend tobe there to pick him up when he arrives.The dead reckoning starts in the train station. The setting is the main lobby. Thefloors, pillars, and stairs are of a promiscuous gray color. There i s a clock that isdirectly above the big, dark, wooden doors that are continuously reverted backto during the cyclorama. The costumes of the main characters in this scene are thesame as throughout the movie. Ness wears a light gray dismal suit, hat, trenchcoat and tie. Stone is wearing a itty-bitty darker colored, more casual, clothingwith a tie and light colored hat. Capones men were dressed similarly withtrench coats and hats of light colors. Also, the innocent bystanders in thisscene are the sailors in their suits, the woman, with the baby in her innocentraggy clothes, and all the other people in the scene who look as though theymight be Capones men. The lighting in this scene is a little bit dull, butgets darker when Capone shoots his gun at certain points of the scene.The figure impetus and expressions in this scene are normally paced,excluding the woman desperately try to get her baby carriage up thestairs, until the gunfire starts. The scene turns into dumb motion and p anicarises as the shooting begins and the baby carriage is released and belatedlystarts descending down the stairs. The mothers face is panicked and you can seeher mouthing the voice communication My Baby. Then you see the innocent face of the babyand then(prenominal) the carriage plummeting to the bottom of the stairs. The expressionson Capones men are uncaring and around the bend looking where as the expressions of thecops were determined looking. Also, the book keepers face is very frightened.