My essay will be about a film from the horror genre and the cinematic techniques that help to establish a theme in the film. My chosen film is entitled The Godfather. This is a film that was directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Setting takes place in New York during the 1940s. According to Scott Eyman of Palm Beach Post, "The Godfather is the mob movie to end all mob movies" (2001). It tells the tale of leaders of a New York crime family. The film centers on Michael Corleone being transformed from a family outsider to Mafia boss while chronicling the Corleone family under Vito, the family patriarch. There is intertwined a web of love, lust, greed, power and revenge in this film, but the most important theme in The Godfather is that of family.
Cinematic techniques help in expressing the film's vision by generating a sense of time and space and/or setting the mood. A theme is the overall "essence" that a film is trying to make. A theme is the main points that the viewer draws from the way in which the characters in a film respond to and resolve the…show more content… In relations to the scene at the restaurant, the setting at the restaurant, the location and its color all help to put the attention on Michael and the men he will be assassinating and also puts the focus on how his attitude has changed about the family business. Inside the restaurant the tables are in a long row. All of the characters are sitting at a table in the middle of the restaurant. There is a neon sign in the window with colors of red and orange that flow over Michael and Sollozzo. This lets you know that these two characters are important to this scene. The redness in the colors alert you to the fact that something major is going to happen. The Godfather is so beautifully written that any style conforming to the gangster genre would work in this film and be