When the conversation becomes more intense, Tarantino uses a camera zoom in on the antagonists face during the scene to bring the audiences attention to their facial expressions to convey emotions and make them a lot clearer during a serious line. Also during this scene the main protagonist has a gun pointed at the antagonist which suggests that the two characters are testing each others masculinity to see whom is dominant over the other which later during the fight could be interpreted by the audience as the chaos a male dominated society (Nazi Germany) which suggests the director meant to do this to give the audience a sense of realism since if something like the holocaust that was caused by the Nazi's which was a massive genocide on the Jewish population, a society like this can be created again if we are not careful.
Deep focus is used to draw in lots of light in the frame before the gun fight, the protagonist lights a cigarette and begins to speak in sophisticated English which could represent his patriotism for his country since there is a chance that he his aware that he may die so he would like to die if he does, speaking his own language. Tarantino could have done this however to make the audience feel that he is aware of his own mortality, yet he does not fear death. Instead, it could be interpreted as that he welcomes death as if it is a old friend. This could have been used to suggest to the audience that he is quite a cold character but also courageous and selfless since he would happily die for his country for the greater good. As well as speaking differently and acting very calm, whilst pointing the gun at the antagonist, the camera is looking over the protagonists shoulder which could suggest that the protagonist has a lot more control and power during this situation over the antagonist. This is also further suggested since the deep focus technique blurs out the antagonist, making him seem less important and insignificant to the audience.
The shots in the framing are very fast during the fight scene, the audience barely sees the same character twice which gives the audience a sense that the genre of the film is perhaps a type of fast paced, action-thriller. The woman in the scene has no weapon, but there is a zoomed close up on her face before she gets shot, which could symbolize a women alone in a man's world, also she could also be represented as a damsel in distress when she screams. Once she is shot however, the shot becomes a zoomed out long shot then the woman is blurred out and made insignificant in the shot. could suggests a stereotypical view of females and males which represents males as aggressive, superior, in charge, waging war and women as inferior, helpless in a 'man's' world and pure. The woman's purity however is tainted by the males since her white dress which is a symbol of purity is stained with her own blood at the hands of a man which could represent that man's sin can taint a woman's purity in the crossfire.
The space in the scene is quite compact, which could suggest a sense of claustrophobia and suspense, also it could perhaps suggest quite homoerotic since all of the men in the scene are very close together which could suggest war is a way of males proving who is the most dominant, but the position of where the guns are pointing could suggest homosexual curiousness.
During the pub scene there is barely, if any at all movement used in the scene, instead Tarantino focused more on techniques like shot types, but specifically zoom close ups to capture the characters emotions, whereas movement does not capture emotion as well as a close up would. So in conclusion, Tarantino uses shot types predominately to other techniques he could have used instead, for example movement, which helped convey the males competition for dominance and the ferocious array emotions that the characters use.
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