This is a report of a single frame from the movie Minority Report: a film by Steven Spielburg. My claim, to state it clearly, is that this composition isolates and contrasts Colin and Tom while simultaneously comparing them. Here is my interpretation on why Steve would want to shoot these characters in the way that he did. First of all, if you squint, you can't tell these characters apart. They look exactly the same really, except for Tom's plain Steve Jobs look and Colin's professional look. Colin is clearly the more stylish man, while Tom is also handsome but very function over form. His haircut is not at all stylish because he doesn't care about the way he looks. Colin probably uses a pomade. He looks very nice. One could argue that both are professional in different ways. Which transitions beautifully into my next observation. They are similar, yet different. From the start when these two people meet, there is a rift. Tom won't shake is hand and calls him a sl...
This frame stood out to me for many reasons. First, I thought it was a cool idea, when the protagonist breaks through “reality”, to have the actually border of the comic be torn apart. I noticed how many of these frames abided by the rule of thirds, as shown above in my annotations. In the story, the Monkey King, ashamed of his heritage, attempts to find strength in becoming a powerful human, even more powerful than God. After the king breaks reality and, showing his hubris, vandalizes and urinates on a gold pillar, he zooms back to God and is shown he was in no way more powerful than God. The pillars, revealed in the lower slide, are God’s fingers, proving in a fun way that he is always in God’s reach. The monkey kind wishes to find happiness through leaving his identity of being a monkey, yet what God is trying to teach him is to find happiness through accepting what you were meant to be: a monkey. In the lower-right frame, the Monkey King towers over God. Although he has height, God...
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