Film analysis Stranger than Fiction
Film analysis „Stranger than Fiction“
The film is about the writer Karen Eiffel who invented the hero Harold Crick. Harold Crick is a boring guy until he fall in love. Normally Karen’s heros are fictitous persons. But Harold actually exist in real life and with the time he hears Karen’s voice in his head.
The writer of the film is Zack Helm. The director is Marc Forster, a guy from switzerland who was also the director of the James Bond film „Quantum of Solace“. The film itself was made in 2006 and was released on November 10, 2006.
In the opening of the film Karen Eiffel tells a lot of numeric attributes and facts about Harold Crick. These informations are displaied in combination with geometric shapes. Most of them are angular which is a synonym for boring and repetitive. All these informations are standing for Harold Cricks daily routine.
When only Harold Crick is involved in the scene the colors are simple, greyish, dull and boring. His scence are at the beginning mostly in the range of grey and brown. This gives the viewer an unspectatucar feeling. So there is no huge variety of colors just enough to fill out Harold Cricks life. But as soon as he met others, there is a huge variety of colors. Specially as soon as he met Anna. Most of the scene with Anna are colorful. This creates a much more comfortable and friendly environment for the viewer and is much more known than the situation just with Harold.
The first important sequence is when Harold first met Anna. This was the first time Harold had an argument with Anna who was a bit rebellious in this scene. So Harold as a person got unsecure because he never had a situation like this before. The second important sequence is when Harold bought a guitar. Since that moment the personality of Harold was getting stronger. There was no more counting and because his personality got developed the viewer actually saw Harold laughing for the first time. And finally the connection with Anna becomes a love story. His
The film is about the writer Karen Eiffel who invented the hero Harold Crick. Harold Crick is a boring guy until he fall in love. Normally Karen’s heros are fictitous persons. But Harold actually exist in real life and with the time he hears Karen’s voice in his head.
The writer of the film is Zack Helm. The director is Marc Forster, a guy from switzerland who was also the director of the James Bond film „Quantum of Solace“. The film itself was made in 2006 and was released on November 10, 2006.
In the opening of the film Karen Eiffel tells a lot of numeric attributes and facts about Harold Crick. These informations are displaied in combination with geometric shapes. Most of them are angular which is a synonym for boring and repetitive. All these informations are standing for Harold Cricks daily routine.
When only Harold Crick is involved in the scene the colors are simple, greyish, dull and boring. His scence are at the beginning mostly in the range of grey and brown. This gives the viewer an unspectatucar feeling. So there is no huge variety of colors just enough to fill out Harold Cricks life. But as soon as he met others, there is a huge variety of colors. Specially as soon as he met Anna. Most of the scene with Anna are colorful. This creates a much more comfortable and friendly environment for the viewer and is much more known than the situation just with Harold.
The first important sequence is when Harold first met Anna. This was the first time Harold had an argument with Anna who was a bit rebellious in this scene. So Harold as a person got unsecure because he never had a situation like this before. The second important sequence is when Harold bought a guitar. Since that moment the personality of Harold was getting stronger. There was no more counting and because his personality got developed the viewer actually saw Harold laughing for the first time. And finally the connection with Anna becomes a love story. His