Expressive movement unit 3
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Movie: Gung Ho!*
Scene: Drill and merging*
Number: 03
Individual analysis: Gung Ho!*
Timecode start: 00:18:49:17
Timecode end: 00:19:59:01
Year of origin: 1943
In this unit, the interplay of shot composition and sound design break with the preceding simulation of future experiences of pain. Hints of fearful expectations are completely dissovled in the battalion’s alignment towards the figure of the Lieutenant, a concept of a community that rests on family structures.Scene: Drill and merging*
Number: 03
Individual analysis: Gung Ho!*
Timecode start: 00:18:49:17
Timecode end: 00:19:59:01
Year of origin: 1943
The soldiers are standing in an orderly manner for roll call and are facing the Lieutenant, whose authoritative voice has replaced the voice-over from the off. The Lieutenant’s gaze wanders multiple times up and down the long row of soldiers in both directions. He is thus marked as the hierarchical head of the battalion. The image, again of a brighter intensity, once more presents the standing recruits in strict geometric formations. This exemplary order is only disturbed shortly by the spurious breakdown of one of the soldiers. With fatherly responsibility, the Lieutenant separates the sick man from the rest of the battalion and restores the original order with his command to march. Using shot/reverse shot technique, the editing finally also separates the weak link from the now strengthened, powerful, marching communal body.
The orderly alignment of the battalion towards its hierarchical head—accomplished through roll call and the episode with the simulator—ends the scene with the image of an authoritative collective body with which it began.
