Week 1 Literary Feature Hunt- Denitza

In the godfather film, there are many things that symbolize or foreshadow something.

*Kay and her Red clothing

It is very smbolic that Kay always wears something red. The color red stand for confidence and courage. I think that Kay is very confident and courageous to stay with someone like Michael and know that there was some serious business going on behind the office door. This is like going at your own risk. Red could also symbolize blood and death. It was a constant motif of how everytime Kay was with Michael (and she was wearing red), the next scene something bad would happen. It was almost as if her reddness foreshadowed the bad events that were coming.

*Luca Brasi's Death

A very obvious way to protray forshaowing and metaphor is the way that Luca Brasi's death was filmed. It started from the very beginning, when Luca entered the resturant of the Tattaglia family there was a big tank of fish. This was a connected foreshadowing (later on connected with something else) of Luca's death because 24 hours later, the Corleone family reseves a package of a fish.

* 2

It was an interesting relization of how the number two was shot in the scene where Michael goes to protect his father. The scene is shot so that it has the number 2 (which is the room number) as well as Michael and Vito. This was foreshadowing because it said 2 meaning that there would probably be a second something, and Michael beside his wounded father. All in all, it presented the meaning that there would soon be a second godfather.

*Foreshadowing the obvious

In many of the scenes in the godfather, it shot of what is happening is shot from where a person would be coming (foreshadowing). For example; when the nurse and Michael were moving Vito into a different room in the hospital so that he does not get killed. Another shot, and a very popular one thoughout the whole film, would be the angle at which the camera is positioned right behind a shoulder to film the person that is talking. This shoulder would provide the viewer to see exactly what the person in power (the shoulder) would see. This shows power, and through the viewer's view, it makes the viewer more confident and interested in the movie, since they have a type of view that no one else can in the film.