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Media - Donnie Darko
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'Donnie Darko' English Media Coursework Explore the ways in which Richard Kelly presents his ideas about the film "Donnie Darko" and the characters in the "school walk" scene. You should refer closely to camera shot, lighting, sound, denotations (signs or symbols) and connotations. Relate your understanding of the scene to the film as a whole. The scene where Donnie arrives at school is a representation of a 1980's MTV music video. Richard Kelly recalls seeing the video 'Janie's got a Gun' by Aerosmith. The person in 'Janie's got a Gun' has a vision in it, similar to Donnie knowing that the world is going to end. Donnie had an epiphany of what is going to happen in the tangent universe. Kelly said that 'I had never seen a video that told a story. It was better crafted than most movies I had seen and I was taken aback by it''. Significantly...
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