The movie Thirteen is Catherine Hardwicke first film she directed. This movie is about a thirteen year old girl who discovers drugs and put her and her mothers relationship to the test to see how far she can push it until her mother find out her secret life of using drugs and parting. Molly Hunter plays Melanie the mother of Evan Rachel Wood who plays Tracy the daughter, in this shot Catherine Hardwicke is trying to show suspense because Melanie finds out Tracy has been cutting her wrist and was trying to hide it but her mother find out and Tracy struggles to get away but doesn't as shown in the picture.
The Nativity Story is the third movie Catherine Hardwicke has directed. This movie a movie that focuses on the period of Mary and Joseph's life and their journey to Bethlehem for the arrival of Jesus. In this scene the director is using the type of shot called medium close up shot showing Mary who is played by Keisha Castle-Hughes, she uses this type of shot to show an emotion, but the emotion she was trying to show as well as she would have like. because I get a confused emotion but the director could be trying to show sadness.
Twilight is Catherine Hardwicke Fourth movie that she has directed. Twilight is about a teenage vampire named Edward who is played by Robert Pattinson who is trying protect Kristen Stewart who plays Bella the girl who Edward falls in love with and is risking his life for. In this shot Edward takes Bella on a journey to show what he can do like climb, jump, run as fast very fast, this is a low angle shot because it is showing that they are superiority of the forest at the time.
Catherine Hardwicke's movies do not have a connection bases on the story's plots but the film angles she uses she continually uses in each of her movies, like in twilight and thirteen she used a lot of long shots to show what the characters and feeling based on their body launages. over all I like her movie she directs becasue I feel like I am part of the movie just watching on the side lines.
Have you seen a movie directed by Catherine Hardwicke? what do you like about her films?
Why do you think Catherine Hardwicke uses shots to show emotion in her movies?
