The 400 Blows Excerpt 6: Antoine at the police station; transfer to the prison; Antoine enters the prison world (3’50”).
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The 400 Blows Excerpt 6: Antoine at the police station; transfer to the prison; Antoine enters the prison world (3’50”).
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| 1. | Discuss the shot following Antoine’s removal to a separate cell. (Whose viewpoint is it? How does the camera represent this gaze?) |
| 2. | When exactly does the music begin? What kind of music is it? |
| 3. | Did you notice the flagrant continuity error in one of the shots after Antoine gets into the police van? Try to find it (who is seated beside Antoine when the van drives off?). |
| 4. | Discuss the editing (shot-reverse shots) during the trip in the van. What is Truffaut’s intention here (what is he trying to depict)? |
| 5. | Discuss the bobbing of the camera in the shots where we see Antoine through the bars of the van. What do we see when the camera finally stops moving, in a close-up of Antoine? |
| 6. | Note the long dissolve which ends inside the prison. Interpretation? |
| 7. | How is Antoine treated when he is processed into the prison--as a child or as an adult? What are the significant elements here? |