Film Theories: Character emotion

Character and emotional response in the cinema

Character relation to the film is quite complicated due to the narrative of the film itself, in some movie character is not the most important subject of the film, for example, a film that bases on the true story of a particular event in history. However that kind of film is not so many in the market due to the difficulty for the audiences to understand the emotion that the film tries to communicate, so in many films, we all see that it be running by a certain character in order for the audiences to understand the emotional and feeling of the film.

When talking about character and emotion of the film we have to talk about recognition, alignment, and allegiance and use it to analyze the use of a character in my chosen films. The film that I will use to identify these three model is The Last Samurai starring Tom Cruise, before talking about recognition, first we will talk about allegiance, most filmmaker will encourage an audience to respond and share emotion with a certain character, for example, Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai the audience all share the emotion of wondering with the character when he is captured by the enemy this is the example of alignment of character from The Last Samurai.

Allegiance in The Last Samurai is clearly identify seen the beginning of the film through the conversation of the character, for example when the character of Lord Katsumoto staring by Ken Watanabe first introduce in the film is clearly identify that this character is in the position of key character that driving the character of Nathan Algren staring by Tom Cruise to the climax. For example in the first scene that each character met Lord Katsumoto order his men to spar Nathan life and took him back to the village, the emotion and mood of that scene is filling with wonder through their acting.

Character and emotion are the key elements that running the films, with both key elements or without any of them that particular film finds a difficult time on screen to the mess audience because it will be difficult for them to understand and feel participating in the film.