Braeden Roth's Blog

The famous shot that has stayed with me is this scene from Avengers: Endgame (2019) directed by Anthony and Joe Russo. The scene is from the final fight scene of the movie and at this moment the main Avengers were fighting Thanos. Then superheroes from all over the galaxy showed up to help the Avengers. In my opinion, this shot is very impressive and complex but not too overwhelming. I think this scene works well because Ant-man on the right side of the screen adds balance to the large amount of people on the left side of the screen. There is not much that I would change about this scene, but if I had to, I would add more light so the scene would not be as dark.   

 1. The essential story is a narrator is telling a story to another man of how a man named Dr. Caligari presented his somnambulism at a town fair. After the fair, people are murdered, and an investigation is started. Dr. Caligari's assistant Cesare is eventually suspected of the murders. It turns out that Dr. Caligari is actually the head of an insane asylum and has been using Cesare, a somnambulist, to complete the murders. It returns to the narrator and the man, and at the end of the movie, it is revealed that the narrator is insane. 2. The film begins in the present and then becomes a flashback to an event in the narrator's life but returns to the present in the end.  3. The use of lighting and shadows helps to add to the horror aspect of the film. In addition, the odd-shaped building helps to add to the eeriness of the film.  4. The final "plot twist" is that the narrator is the insane one is the narrator, not Dr. Caligari. This then makes the audience question...