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Film Techniques used by Jacques Tati in Mon Oncle
Jacques Tati’s film Mon Oncle is a film that shows distinctive differences between Old World Traditions and the New Modern World. Tati utilizes four techniques to impress these differences upon his audience. The techniques Tati uses are: music; lighting; characters; and sight gags.
Mon Oncle plays like a silent film, but it is not. Tati establishes emotion and a sense of time with a musical background at the start of Mon Oncle. The film takes place within two neighborhoods in a single city. There are plenty of visual indicators throughout the film that show how Old World Tradition is being overrun by the New Modern World. The film starts with the credits written on horizontal signposts as workers tear down an older building to make room for new construction. ... At one point in the film several characters hum the theme song as they ride through town in a horse-drawn buckboard wagon. A dinner troupe in a restaurant scene and a radio which Monsieur and Mademoiselle Arpel sit down outside their home to listen to provide the only other musical pieces heard in the film. ... Unlike today’s films that use musical soundtracks to set the scene and evoke several different emotions from viewers, the music in Mon Oncle is used exclusively to separate the old world from the new.
Approximate Word count = 1091
Approximate Pages = 4.4
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