This comedy follows the character Cantinflas and his misadventures in the house of Cayetano. The story begins as Cantinflas waits for his girlfriend, Paz (the maid of the Cayetano household) to signal for him to enter the Cayetano mansion to eat (as he usually does, without the knowledge of the house's patrons). This time, however, Paz demands that her boyfriend kill the Cayetano family dog Bobby, who has suffered a sudden onset of rabies, before he is allowed to eat. After he kills the dog Cantinflas becomes trapped inside the mansion due to the early return of Cayetano, the head of the household. Meanwhile, Dolores, the wife of Cayetano, is also inside with her ex-boyfriend Bobby who plans to blackmail her. Cayetano believes his wife is cheating on him and searches the house for her supposed lover. Paz hides both Cantinflas and Bobby, but when Cayetano arrives Bobby makes an escape and only Cantinflas is found. Dolores claims that Cantinflas is her long-estranged brother Leonardo, and Cayetano, who wants more of his wife's family's inheritance, treats Cantinflas lavishly. Trouble arises when Leonardo's partner Clotilde arrives with all of their sons, who have come also to deal with the issue of inheritance, and asks that they become a married couple. Before they can wed, police arrive looking for Leonardo who has allegedly killed Bobby (the blackmailer). Cantinflas confesses to having killed Bobby (the dog) and is put on trial. Finally, the real Leonardo appears and reveals that he had killed Bobby (the human) because he was being blackmailed - Cantinflas is allowed to go free and returns to his old antics, including waiting outside Cayetano's mansion for food.
Describes the setting of a scene in a play or a film. It refers to everything placed on the stage or in front of the camera—including people. In other words, mise en scène is a catch-all for everything that contributes to the visual presentation and overall “look” of a production. When translated from French, it means “placing on stage.”
Pero después de que las mentiras de Cantinflas empiezan a causar problemas, los cuadros se ponen desordenados y parecen ser más como una foto instantánea de acción.
Pero al final, cuando todos los problemas de Cantinflas se han resuelto, los cuadros vuelvan al estado ordenado y compuesto. Así que cuando hay confusión y caos resultando del comportamiento de Cantinflas, se nota en el desorden y caos de cada cuadro; en cambio, cuando las mentiras de Cantinflas todavía se están desarrollando o ya se han resuelto, se nota en la planificación y orden de cada cuadro.
Este es un énfasis sutil al hecho de que solo está fingiendo: al final del día (o al final de la película, en este caso), regresa a su vida de vagabundo y a la misma ropa con la que comenzó la película. El resto de los personajes tienen un estilo bastante básico para el tipo de película; los ricos visten trajes y vestidos bonitos, la sirvienta usa su delantal, etc. En general, el efecto de los diferentes trajes es enfatizar la diferente posición social de los personajes y cómo se colocan en relación entre sí.
El melodrama ayuda a exagerar los sentimientos presentes en la escena, cuando Cayetano y Dolores escuchan los disparos. Durante la mayor parte de la película, la cámara está al nivel de los ojos con todos los actores colocados en el centro del fotograma. Esto disipa cualquier ambigüedad potencial sobre lo que los personajes podrían estar sintiendo: todo se muestra con claridad y se enfoca en el centro de la pantalla para maximizar el efecto cómico. Con respeto a la mirada, la mayoría de los personajes se miran unos a otros o, de nuevo, miran a la cámara para mostrar su expresión facial. En general, la actuación y la coreografía de esta película se utilizan para mostrar el humor icónico de Cantinflas.
This is the art of photography and visual storytelling in a motion picture or television show. Cinematography comprises all on-screen visual elements, including lighting, framing, composition, camera motion, camera angles, film selection, lens choices, depth of field, zoom, focus, color, exposure, and filtration. Cinematography sets and supports the overall look and mood of a film’s visual narrative. Each visual element that appears on screen, a.k.a. the mise-en-scène of a film, can serve and enhance the story—so it is the cinematographer’s responsibility to ensure that every element is cohesive and support the story. Filmmakers often choose to spend the majority of their budget on high-quality cinematography to guarantee that the film will look incredible on the big screen.
Editing is the process of putting a film together–the selection and arrangement of shots and scenes. Editing can condense space and time, emphasize separate elements and bring them together, and organize material in such a way that patterns of meaning become apparent. In addition, editing can determine how a film is perceived: for instance, quick, rapid cuts can create a feeling of tension, while a long take can create a more dramatic effect. The first photoplays generally had no cutting, owing to the fact that they were single-reel films; once filming began, you could not stop until the film ran out. (https://filmglossary.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/term/editing/)
Sound is an integral part in a film. It refers to everything that the audience hears including sound effects, words and music. Sound is used in films for various purposes, including: providing the information to the viewer about the location of the scene, heightening the mood, telling the audience about the characters and advancing the plot. Every person who watches a film realizes that the choice of voices, soundtrack and music present in a film affect the way that the viewer perceives a particular film. As a result, the sound is an important and integral element of the film, one that determines the way that the viewer experiences and understands a film as a visual experience.
Narrative analysis is an examination of the story elements, including narrative structure, character, and plot. A narrative can be considered to be the chain of events in a cause-effect relationship occurring in time and space. In order to analyze the narrative of a film, we need to first make the distinction between the plot of the film and the story of the film. This is sometimes referred to as the discourse and story of a film. Narrative may also be called the story thought story mainly refers to the events that describe the narrative.
Film genres are various forms or identifiable types, categories, classifications or groups of films. (Genre comes from the French word meaning "kind," "category," or "type"). These provide a convenient way for scriptwriters and film-makers to produce, cast and structure their narratives within a manageable, well-defined framework. Genres also offer the studios an easily 'marketable' product, and give audiences satisfying, expected and predictable choices. Genres refers to recurring, repeating and similar, familiar or instantly-recognizable patterns, styles, themes, syntax, templates, paradigms, motifs, rules or generic conventions.