Mission Impossible - Thriller Analysis

Textual analysis of Mission impossible

Diegetic sound – Sound that is part of the story space – something you can see

Non-diegetic sound –Not part of the story space – something you cannot see.

Mize-En-Scene- French meaning have where the story is set. –Where it is filmed.

Aerial shot – from the air looking over

Flowers-

Poppy linked to war

Lily linked towards death

Rose- linked towards love

Establishing shot- show the setting- establishes location of the film.

Denote	Connote
Cliff edge/ sounds of him struggling	His life is at a risk trying to do this.
Slow motion jump	Tension of him jumping makes the audience in shock if he is going to fall.
Religious symbol	As if he is Jesus – waiting for something to happen (to save the world)
Fast Forward (motion)	Show that he is far away and isolated and that he wants to be away from the work from what he does as if he doesn’t like to do it.
Point of view	Bird’s view as if he don’t belong in location – bird is a eagle representing danger and it is also the American symbol therefore meaning of the food chain.
Contrapuntal	The music is Contrapuntal meaning on that it doesn’t fit in with the scene making the audience think that it is happy and that nothing won’t happen however doesn’t fit in when he is about to fall off the edge.
Close up to face.	Done to show whom the actor is playing the character in the film and also so that it is used to show facial expressions of the character e.g. what he is like.
Music	Mission impossible type action / spy music gives the idea of the genre of the film and also gives us the idea of that what the film is going to have in it.
Eagle Sound	Eagle sound happens everyone when a point of view then happens
Close up on glasses.	If they have a hidden meaning behind them in the film later on – something the character is known to have for disguise because it is a action / spy film.
Intertexuality of man in helicopter	Gives us the idea of that the film is like other film’s which have the same genre with people in suits.