Gold rush key scenes

 Key scenes

- The starvation scene in where The Tramp eats a boiled shoe with Big Jim Mckay.

- The Tramps cabin-mate hallucinates and sees The Tramp as a huge chicken. 

- Chaplins fantasized new years eve party where he waits for a girl who never turns up

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Structure:

POINT - Editing

EXAMPLE - What is going on in the film

EXPLAIN - Link the meaning for spectator

Introduction:

Gold Rush 1925

as the film is a silent film, Chaplin relies heavily on impressive visuals to create meanings

Scene -  jim and the prspector are deprived of food as they are stuck in a winter storm. they resort to boiling and eating his leather shoe. Big Jim also imagines TLP as a giant chicken through delirium due to lack of food.

1989, Bordwell and Thompson - 'Continuity Editing relies upon matching screen direction, position, and temporal relations shot to shot...'

Paragraph 1:

P: 180 degree rule - line of action through the centre of the action and the camera should not cross the line. Crossing the line would cause the spectator to become confused

E: As both characters are sat at the table, the cameras switch between reactions

E: Establish binary opposites (Claud Levi Strauss, 1964)

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Point: talk about transitions

E: Scene ends with a fade to black

E: what does the scene mean? Connotes clearly to the audience that the scene has finished and there will be a change in time and location.

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P: Graphic Match - where objects that appear similar are used in successive shots, sometimes to imply a link

E: TLP dissolving into a chicken - through a seamless change in costume (mise-en-scene)

E: Contextual link to Donner Party Disaster of 1846 when a party of immigrants were stranded in the snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains were reduced to eating their own moccasins (soft leather shoe) and eventually reduced to cannibalism