The Thomas Crown Affair

Hello my name is and like most people I get bored sometimes, not because of a lack of ideas but because of a lack of money. But what if money wasn't a factor and you could do and have done everything within the rules that worldly possessions can afford you? Whoever this person is, they most undoubtedly would not gain the same pleasure from activities that you or I would. This is the main theme of the remake of the 1968 movie The Thomas Crown Affair. The original Thomas Crown Affair was written by Alan Trustman and directed by Norman Jewison who also did In the heat of the night and the 2003 movie The Statement. It starred Steve McQueen as the Financer, Thomas Crown, and Faye Dunaway as an insurance investigator counterpart to Crown, Viki
In the original, Jewison used techniques that were new to the industry at the time. He used a split screen technique to enhance the action scenes by allowing for more than one point of view, giving the movie more suspense. However, in the remake, McTiernan chose not to use this technique or even any other that is newer to film making. Mctiernan's makes it easier for the viewer to follow the plot and focus in on what is going on in the movie. In doing this, the remake loses some of the intensity in it's action and suspense
Jewison does this to better encapsulate the viewer into Crown's world that is dull and boring. However in the remake, McTiernan mainly keeps the lighting very bright as if it were always a bright sunny day. He chooses to use the bright light to apply somewhat of the same normality shown in the original. But different than the original, he uses this normality to set a tone so that a change in the lighting can be more distinctly seen. This can be seen in the low lighting that is used in the scene when banning is walking down the street in the rain, crying because she thinks Crown has used her and is cheating on her. McTiernan uses the change in lighting to better emphasize to the viewer a characters emotion. In doing this McTiernan is able to provide the viewer with an additional aspect, albeit an esthetic aspect, of the