21 (2008)
Director: Robert Luketic
Original book: Bringing down the house
Author: Ben Mezrich
Main cast: Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth
Narrative structure is linear, voice is 1st person and omniscient, and pov is omniscient. Storyline structure of this film is;
: problem of money, can't get scholarship-> solved by doing card counting-> comflict with Micky-> do it without him-> got cought-> problem of money, graduation-> solved, dragged Micky again-> got money-> money is gone-> got scholarship
Themes shown in this film is money, love, life, gambling, and study.
Mise-en-scene of this movie is, held in modern time period. Main place is in Las Vegas. Costumes are casual look and formal look which makes difference between not in Las Vegas, and in Las Vegas. Mood of this film is very entertaining, exciting and little gloomy.
Props used in this movie is card, casino, money, airplane, and survalience camera
Special camera work is Aerial shot, with panning to show Las Vegas effectively. Slow motion whin Ben was nervous at the airport.
Montage at the beginning of doing blackjack and winning as well as explaining-non digestic sound-about "card counting" which makes the viewer interesting. Other montage during movie, whole time, that when he counts the card and remembers the code of counting. (ex) sweet=+16 and shows the scene when he were learning with paper fliping). Fast-forward have been used for first time he went for card counting. it made it quick, so the audience can see how successful he was.
Interesting techniques used with lighting brightly, just after he successfully finished card counting and leaves the Casino, and gloomy lighting when he got caught and lost everything and leaves the Casino.
As I mentioned just above, non-digestic sound of explaing about card counting has used at the beginning. The best digetic sound in this movie is.. I think its a sound of card-fliping. Overall in this movie, digetic sound and non-digetic sound has used very skill-fully.
Genre of this movie is crime and drama.
Total score of this movie is;
★★★★★
: Eventhough I watched a several times, I still don't get card counting.
But it is really fun to watch even don't know what it is.
I really like this movie, I think story is so cool and nicely directed.
"Winner winner, Chicken dinner"
It was enjoyable to watch!!
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