Rules of the Game Excerpt 10: Jurieu’s Death; mistaken identities (2’11”)

Excerpt 10

 Questions

1. How is the tragic error prepared in the first part of this sequence?
2.

Describe the second shot (sequence shot) in this sequence. How does Renoir organize his shot to avoid cutting it up into several shots? (Note the movement of the characters into and out of the field, camera movements, shot size.)

3.

Why does Renoir use a long static shot of Marceau and Schumacher in the night?

4.

Discuss how André Jurieu falls when he is struck by Schumacher’s bullet. Metaphorical value?