Strangers on a Train

Question 1

Scenes

Answer 1

1. Scene for sentence world:
   - Close up of tie reading: Bruno (directly plays on sentence word)
2. Scene for denotated signifier and significate are signifier for connoted significate:
   - Feet walking (Angle shows anonymity)
   - In train compartment, Bruno’s shoes in the foreground separate the two characters (good and evil; not as obvious as black and white)
   - Bruno on phone large in the foreground with parents arguing about him in background (His anger and shift of power)
   - Low Angle of Bruno hitting the strength tester
   - Strangulation filmed through reflection of glasses
3. Scene for syntagmatic Structure:
   -Crosscutting of feet walking creates anticipation
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Question 2

Film Info

Answer 2

-Directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951

Cast:

• Guy Haynes (Tennis Player)
• Bruno Anthony (Murderer)
• Anne Morton (Future wife)
• Miriam (Wife)