A Thousand Stars: Episode IV, Part 15
Dec. 12th, 2024 08:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrilThe interrogation scene aboard the Death Star has only one line. The visuals say everything else.
The corridor is a dark and narrow, made even tighter as Vader and the two guards fill the entire space. We cut to Leia's lonely figure in her cell. Notice how we then get glimpses of her behind Vader, with the forced perspective creating the illusion that she's even smaller than reality.
Vader comes to loom over her and speak his line. They will "discuss" the location of the Rebel base. All this time, an ominous probe has been creeping closer, but it becomes truly prominent when Leia's gaze shifts from Vader to the orb. We don't have to know the exact purpose of every nasty little tool; we can imagine well enough. Another closeup of Leia's frightened face, then Vader, then a final forced perspective shot with the probe nearly large enough to blot out Leia completely.
And then the door slides shut, leaving everything else to our imagination. We follow a guard down the hall, in a curious pan from the boots upward. The relentless march of the Empire, perhaps? In any case, this heightens the tension far more tightly than a prolonged, explicit torture scene. We know what's happening.
Next, the threshold into the hero's journey...
The corridor is a dark and narrow, made even tighter as Vader and the two guards fill the entire space. We cut to Leia's lonely figure in her cell. Notice how we then get glimpses of her behind Vader, with the forced perspective creating the illusion that she's even smaller than reality.
Vader comes to loom over her and speak his line. They will "discuss" the location of the Rebel base. All this time, an ominous probe has been creeping closer, but it becomes truly prominent when Leia's gaze shifts from Vader to the orb. We don't have to know the exact purpose of every nasty little tool; we can imagine well enough. Another closeup of Leia's frightened face, then Vader, then a final forced perspective shot with the probe nearly large enough to blot out Leia completely.
And then the door slides shut, leaving everything else to our imagination. We follow a guard down the hall, in a curious pan from the boots upward. The relentless march of the Empire, perhaps? In any case, this heightens the tension far more tightly than a prolonged, explicit torture scene. We know what's happening.
Next, the threshold into the hero's journey...
