Mise-en-scene (Miss Georgiou)

Kill Bill

The setting of the opening scene in Kill Bill has significance to the conventions of a thriller film because the fight was set in a big house that looked quite nice from the outside, and when the audience see the house, they get quite manipulated because they don't suspect a fight to break out in it. The iconography used in this scene in the house was all the usual things you'd find around a house but used in a more aggressive and violent way for example; a shelf that was used to throw at her etc. This was conventional to a thriller film because in the thriller genre, knives are usually used the most as iconography seeing as they are dangerous and unsafe objects that could harm someone to a certain extent.

The costumes used in this scene was just casual normal clothes that people would wear in their normal everyday life for example, track suits and jeans. This has significance to the conventions of a thriller film because this makes the scene look more usual which is manipulating the audience once again in another way because they don't suspect the women to be fighters. Also in the scene when she is walking up towards the house the iconography outside the house is some toys and a slide for a little baby girl which also helps the fact to get the audience thinking that there's not going to be a fight. It makes the house look more normal from outside. So when the two women start fighting its like a surprise for the audience because it wasn't expected. This creates shock for the audience. This is conventional to a thriller because usually shock is used to keep the audience more engaged in the film throughout.

The facial expressions and body language varies throughout this whole scene, but right at the beginning when she walks up towards the door, her facial expressions show a mutual face but her body language shows that she is prepared to fight. This is conventional to a thriller film because its keeping the audience in suspense and tension, seeing as they don't know what to expect but then it gives them a shock and surprise that there is a fight breaking out between two women that they didn't expect. This again would keep the audience hooked in the film because it keeps them engaged and thinking about what would happen next.

At first the lighting and colour stays bright while she pulled up and was outside, but as she stepped in the house the lighting and colour turned all dark and dull which signifies the conventions of a thriller film as something dangerous or scary is about to happen, in a thriller the lighting is always darker when something bad is about to happen. This engages the audience because when the lighting and colour turns dark they know that something dramatic is going to happen so it keeps them on edge and in suspense. So it hooks them in.

Once again the positions always varies in this scene but when the two women are fighting, they are always right in the middle of the camera. However, when one woman has more power over the other, they are always at a higher level then the other. This is important to show because it has more of an impact on the audience for when the characters represent power and authority, physically. This makes the audience feel more involved throughout.