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The Benchwarmers Film Analysis
Directors have the important job of communicating the ideas and themes of their films. Their power comes from the choices they make, aside from the script. Directors are artists, they make intentional choices to give the film a specific meaning and help communicate the ideas in it. The Benchwarmers is a great example of intentional choices made by the director. The Benchwarmers is about a group of three young adults, Gus, Clark and Richie. They have been treated like losers all of their lives and after seeing a young kid named Nelson get bullied for playing baseball poorly, they decide to play the team that was bullying him. They found out that they were better than they thought at baseball, so they decide to run and participate (as The Benchwarmers) in a baseball tournament, with the prize being a new stadium. In The Benchwarmers, director, Dennis Dugan uses camera angles, lighting, and establishing shots in order to emphasize conflicts between The Benchwarmers and the other baseball teams.
The movie starts out with a conflict and carries this theme throughout the film. Dugan reinforces the dominant characters in each of the conflicts by using low and high camera angles. In the opening scenes of the …show more content…
Apart from the script, directors have a lot of creative leeway to reinforce the plot using different filming techniques. In The Benchwarmers, director Dennis Dugan uses high and low camera angles to show the dominant figures in conflicts. He also uses high-key and low-key lighting to help the audience decide the protagonist and the antagonist. Dugan additionally uses an establishing shot during the baseball games to show the emotion on each of the players faces. All of these techniques are used to represent the conflict within the movie. Dugan used camera angles, lighting, and establish shots to reinforce the script and the theme of conflict in The
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