3067_Natalie Xie_Short Answer Questions-The Virgin Suicides

Section One

Question 1:

What features of this film clearly result from who directed it?

Sofia Coppola, born May 14, 1971,New York City, USA. Daughter of director Francis Ford Coppola and Eleanor Coppola. She became the first American woman ever nominated for Best Director Oscar. < http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001068/bio

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<> , Sofia Coppola wrote the screenplay and directed a 97 minutes film version, in 1999. <> is a best movie to describe her direct style, which is detailing scenes, used music and character’s mood, movement to represent the scenes. The movie ‘s title ‘Suicide’ really do explain the female director’s style. It’s about a suicide movie, 5 beautiful sisters, teenagers from Lisbon, they all died sequentially in a year. Throughout the whole movie, it does not see too much blood on the movie. It looks more pace and softens style, slow down to push the plot gain the climax, and links the whole movies even it’s all about death, suicide.

In the beginning of the movie, music is softening throughout the following scenes. The music carries out glumness and how bad it can be. Dark Messages which is one of the less musically involving pieces, but for this kind of setting the most effective. In it a repeating electronic beat is occasionally splashed with the paint of what sounds like pianos floating in the air.< http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?albumid=13193>

After directed the <<>>,1999, Sofia Coppola directed another movie which called <<>> 2003, and she won the Academy Award for her original screen-play and three Golden Globe Awards including Best Picture. < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Coppola >

In the beginning of the <>, Sofia Coppola used Melodramatic music swells over the Girl’s butt in pink sheer underwear as she lies on the bed. Then title cards over image which shows ‘Lost In Translation’, it leads audiences to the scenes. A funky music raise then cut to Bob sits on the end of the bed in a too small hotel kimono. They both scenes and the involved music show the two main characters get lost in a strange city, country. It also straight down the movie’s title and straight into the main purposes of the movie what to show to the audiences. In this film, the soundtrack features artists such as My Bloody Valentine and Air. < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_Translation_%28soundtrack%29>

In the first scene, MR Lisbon’s daughter Lux stands there eating her ice block , and looks hopeless, careless, then following it’s the tree scenes, it’s really imply the following things, it seems like the tree will be part of the important objects on the film. Then the scene’s color changed from the color and more blue into the following scene was in silence the still body of a 13-year-old girl ,Cecelia floats in the pink bath water, stares past us. It straights to the main theme for the movie, ‘suicide’. It used Point of view, Two paramedics look down at her, mesmerized and frightened by her tranquility.>,shows the one of the character shoes suicide.

A clue will be following the conversation between a doctor and Cecilia. In the scene, Doctor said:” What are you doing here,, honey? You’re not even old enough to know how bad life gets…” Cecilia looks at him, :” Obviously, Doctor, you’ve never been a thirteen-year-old girl.” That seems like given out some hints, and some answers for the ‘Virgin Suicide’. She‘s the youngest daughter from Lisbon, and first suicide in the family.

In <>, the music raise, a point of view from a car window, the colors and lights of Tokyo neon at night blur by, the main character, Bob, tired and depressed, leans against a little doily, staring out the window. It also seems like give out a hints to audience, he get lost in the strange city.

At the <>, the main character’s Bob conversation with her wife‘s oversea phone call, He answer:”Whatever you like ,I am completely lost”. It explains the issue in this movie. The main characters get lost and feel lonely and bother by the current life style.

Throughout these two films, the features of Sofia Coppola is much more direct with detail, throughout music, character’s close up ,mood to show how the main character’s feeling and much more into audience mind.

Normally, female do things carefully, and prudent. The movie used meticulous within the movies. It’s taking and telling story throughout character’s mood, movement, thoughts, to tell the audiences what have been talked through the movie.

Question 2:

Analyze the main themes of this movie.

<>,Sofia Coppola wrote the screenplay ,and also directed by Sofia Coppola. Genre of the movie is drama/ Mystery , is a American film.

According to the title of the movie, we kind of know get the idea about the movie’s theme, which is ‘ Suicide’. It represents the issue in American.

In the beginning of the movie, the main character ( Lux ) show up ,stand on the street of Town, eating her ice block looking around, looks like doesn’t care about everything at all, lost mind , the camera just like a real mind, hopes, but Lux staring around the other side but camera. It seems like she kind of lost mind, lost interest about life, hopeless. After a few shots about the small town ‘s people life style, Sofia Coppola used color then straight turn to blue color scenes, which give audiences cold ,and unhappy moment feeling. The scenes shows the Lisbon house’s set up, Bottles of drug store perfume, mustache bleach, powder, nail polish ,incense…> then first person to talked about the story about the Lisbon’s family living environment. Then turns into, the still body of a 13-year-old girl floats in pink bath water, she stares past us. It straights give out the idea of the movie ‘Suicide’. It really hits audience’s heart, been pity, how a little girl choose to suicide instead of living well with her family, the question involved to every audiences, also the character inside of the movie. Then movie color turns to color again.

The title begins as we tilt up past Elm leaves to a dreamy cloud filled blue sky:” THE VIRGIN SUICIDES.’’ Through the clouds we see the faint image of a pretty blonde girl’s (Lux) face as she winks at the camera. It given out the idea, Cecilia is not the only daughter from Lisbon want to suicide. It leads audiences mind, consider in the beginning of the movie, Lux will die the next. And throughout the beginning of the movie, we were all thinking how many teenagers girl form Mr Lisbon’ family will die later.

Then a little clues about why the 5 beautiful sisters choose to suicide instead of living which shows out the beginning of the movie and the end of the movie.

In the beginning of the movie, in a quite hospital room, a short conversation between the doctor and Cecilia. < style="">The doctor:” :” What are you doing here,, honey? You’re not even old enough to know how bad life gets…” Cecilia looks at him, :” Obviously, Doctor, you’ve never been a thirteen-year-old girl.” > It’s the important clue, theme to show up why Cecelia chose to suicide. At the end of the movie, after the rest of 4 sisters from Lisbon all chose to suicide. In the backyard, under the party glow of lanterns a drunk man, laughing, while he said :”I ‘ve had it! Good-bye cruel world!”, then he tried to roll back into the pool, his friends stop him :” You don’t understand me, I’m a teenager! I ‘ve got problems!” >That’s the theme of the whole movie ,that’s the main theme about the movie. The every single word, sentences reveal the sequent suicide’s tragedy incident.

It remains unclear whom the narrative chorus is addressing. Though it sometimes seems as though the mourners have collected all their memorabilia and conducted their interviews for some official purpose, this is never made clear. In their attempt to understand who Lisbon girls were and why they committed suicide, they never find a truly satisfying answer. But the entire novel, meanwhile paints a poignantly sharp and critical portrait of the suburban American life experienced by the baby boom generation. < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virgin_Suicides>

BIBLIOGRAPHY

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001068/bio

http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?albumid=13193

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Coppola

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_Translation_%28soundtrack%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_Translation_%28soundtrack%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Virgin_Suicides>

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