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How to Make a Tonal Shift - Parasite and Shoplifters

Video made by Moises & Sergio Velasquez

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“A long overdue video essay on two of our favorite movies of the past decade: Parasite (2019) by Bong Joon-ho and Shoplifters (2018) by Hirokazu Koreeda. There are several similarities between these two Cannes award winning films but the one we will focus on in this video is their masterful use of the tonal shift. It's a great narrative tool but a very risky one. So how do they set it up? And why?”

Via: Screened (YouTube Source Channel)

SCREENED: In this video we take a look at why Cosmic Horror is so hard to adapt onto the screen because of its visual complexity and abstraction.

  Featuring Movie Clips From: 

2001: A Space Odyssey  (Debatebly has Lovecraftian elements) 

Alien 

Annihilation 

Bird Box 

Cloverfield Paradox 

In the Mouth of Madness 

The Endless 

The Mist 

The Thing 

The Unnamable 

The Void 

SCREENED: In this video we're going to examine three recent horror movies (The Babadook, The Witch and Hereditary) and the way they managed to tell an effective horror story by respecting the balance of three key elements: 

The characters

The adversary 

The audience

These are great, very entertaining video essays on the topic of cosmic horror (or Lovecraftian Horror) and horror...just in general. Both are under 10 mins. Highly recommended.