Steven Spielberg was twenty-two in 1971 when he directed Duel. David Gilmour wrote: Like reading the first pages of a great novel, you sense you're in the presence of an enormous, incautious talent. It hasn't learned to second-guess itself, to be too smart. Speilberg told an intervewer that he tried to rewatch Duel every two or three years in order to "remember how I did it." Here are the clips from this 75-minute film. Watch one or part of the clip and then choose one sequences in which you will analyze how tension is achieved using cinematic techniques. Indicate the Clip number, the timing and 5 cinematic techniques (types of shots) that are used and then describe in your own words how this achieved suspense.
Clip 1 (4:44) Clip 2 (6:24) Clip 3 (5:10) Clip 4( 6:05) Clip 5 (5:05)
Clip 6 (4:59) Clip 7 (5:26) Clip 8 (6:21) Clip 9 (6:55) Clip 10 (6:31)
For those of you who are not afraid to watch the shower scene in Psycho, how does Alfred Hitchcock let the imagination do the heavy lifting?
The Shower Scene
FYI: Dirty Harry: Did he fire six shots or only five? Magnum Force
FYI: Reread the description of the final scene of Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960) on pp. 159-160 and then watch the scene. Click here.
