Filmmaking involves a number of discrete stages in order to the movie express its meaning. Cinematography, production design, acting, editing, sound design, and narrative are necessary to organize the design of the film and make it gain meaning to its audience. Nevertheless, while watching a movie, we hardly think about all those components. They are coordinated in such a perfect way that we do not pay attention to those details. Cinema is an art that operates on a global scale, each film representing diverse aspects of our society and its characteristics, different countries and cultures. In this paper two films are compared, Amelie and Amores Perros. Amelie is a French film about a girl who lives in Paris that one day decides to help others…show more content… Like everything in "Amores Perros," a movie that deceives you, the scenes turn into something far more haunting than what one would think. The very first scene, in which Octavio, one of the main characters, drives his bleeding dog to a veterinarian while trying to get away from gunmen trying to kill him sets the tone for the type of movie and things we can expect to see in this film. Amores Perros uses many different factors to lure in its audience like dogs, cars, blood, smoke, different camera angles and sharp cutting. That all makes this first scene a very interesting way to start a…show more content… The use of color in both films is used to explain emotion and how the audience should feel although the colors used are different. In Amelie, the colors used were to make you feel happy so they used bright colors. In Amores Perros, the red blood and dark colors were used to make it feel suspenseful. The sound in each movie is very different as well. In Amelie, there is a narrator that speaks about the movie. The music used for the film makes it happy and joyful. In Amores Perros, the sound used of the dogs barking, biting each other, and the bodies pounding one another makes the film very real. You almost feel as if you are there watching the action. The structure of each film is unique. Amores Perros uses three different scenes to explain the movie and only at the end do we realize that it is the same story but it was being viewed by different social classes. In Amelie, the structure follows the life of the protagonist from when she is a child to when she gets
