The Manchurian Candidate
The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon is a political thriller about the son of a prominent US political family who is brainwashed into being an unwitting assassin for the communist party.
There are two versions of the this film, one was made in 1962 and the other in 2004.
Both of the version had the same story line and a lot of similarities expect from the fact that the one that was made in 2004 was in colour as technology has developed a lot more in contrast to the 1962.
The 2004 version more ethnically diverse
They didn't end in the same way
Instead of the leading actors on a fake grassy mound in a film studio (original film) the modern film has a realistic battle. CGI means that:
•We have explosions, Night vision – making the attack seem believable
In the scene where there was a dialogue between Eleanor and Raymond, when Raymond sat down the camera turned into an high angle with Eleanor so in the shot, making her look more dominant as she is trying to control him. In addition, while Eleanor is talking to Raymond, there is a dissolve into a scene with Raymond on his own thinking about it, then it goes further to a scene where Raymond is having a conversation with Ben: all of this occurred while we still have a dissolve of Eleanor talking to Raymond. This is very clever because it shows the pass of time and that these other scenes occurred because of what Eleanor said.
Differences
The 1962 version is in black and white while the 2004 version is in colourThe 2004 version more ethnically diverse
They didn't end in the same way
Instead of the leading actors on a fake grassy mound in a film studio (original film) the modern film has a realistic battle. CGI means that:
•We have explosions, Night vision – making the attack seem believable
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
•Directed
by John Frankenheimer.
With Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh.
•The
central concept of the film is that the son of a prominent, right-wing
political family has been brainwashed as
an unwitting assassin for an international communist conspiracy
In the scene where there was a dialogue between Eleanor and Raymond, when Raymond sat down the camera turned into an high angle with Eleanor so in the shot, making her look more dominant as she is trying to control him. In addition, while Eleanor is talking to Raymond, there is a dissolve into a scene with Raymond on his own thinking about it, then it goes further to a scene where Raymond is having a conversation with Ben: all of this occurred while we still have a dissolve of Eleanor talking to Raymond. This is very clever because it shows the pass of time and that these other scenes occurred because of what Eleanor said.
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Directed by Jonathan Demme.
With:
Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Meryl
Streep, Kimberly Elise.
Streep, Kimberly Elise.
In the midst of gulf war soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed to idol Raymond Shaw, in order for Raymond to win a high honour award.
In the scene when Ben (Denzel Washington) is being interrogated by the detectives, there were a lot of shot reverse shots swapping from detective to detective meanwhile still keeping a shoulder shot of Ben looking towards the detectives. This is effective because if the camera is going from detective to detective, it shows that Ben is really being ganged up on by quite a vast amounts of detectives. In addition, there is a very quiet non- diegetic song of a a deep hum which adds to the tension in the atmosphere.
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