How does light and dark
- 1. Directors use light and dark situations to create a sense of emotion on the character. They may do this by keeping half of the characters face in the shade, this would create a sense of mystery and make the audience feel conspicuous towards that character. In the Body of lies, The director uses light and dark extremely well to keep certain messages hidden and make the audience feel a connection to them in that they will be part of the action later in the film. In one of the Early scenes of body of lies the man we see is him covered one side by the shade this tells us he has something to hide from the audience. This suggests that he is committing evil things or part of them. But a contrast to this he is wearing white turban which suggests he is good and that he has no connotations of evil. This is a very valid point because there are two sides to it because it is based on religion and peoples beliefs. In the eyes of an English viewer or non-islamic believer they would see this islamic activist as a bad person out to harm countries with other views. But on the other side the islamic man will see himself as doing whats right and putting
- 2. right what happened before. He wears white to show peace and his want to do good for his country. This causes a lot of talk about the film and gives it a meaning and reference to everyday things. Also in this same scene there is not much light around him which doesn't give away any details about him, this adds mystery and suspense to the scene; putting even more doubt into the audiences mind giving them even more reason to instantly dislike him. There is light coming in from the window behind him which shows he is influenced by good in his actions but may not go about it the same way. Over all when using light and dark to depict emotional landscape from a character there are many different ways to do this and the different ways add different effects to the scene and give across different messages. The location also adds a big effect to, it gives details of what kind of ethnic background they are from and if they are poor or rich, this could be from a simple exterior shot panning around a character. All of these things add to the emotion given off and make the audience think different things towards individual characters.