Demolition preparations*

Classification in categories

• Formation of a group body (corps)

 

After the squad has been formed and introduced, group cohesion is the foremost subject. The narrative motifs of rope and dynamite are determined as patterns of movement through shot composition and sound design and connected to the squad’s group dynamics by the dialogue and the character choreography, and thus made into metaphors. Shot composition and sound design create protractions that have the qualities of connecting, attaching and supporting: Supporting pillars and elongated braces as well as a soldier’s long, slow humming. This connecting quality is linked to the cohesion of the group by being paralleled in the emblematically loaded conversation between Sergeant Dane and Corporal Todd.  In this conversation, Todd, as the alter ego of “Burns,” is already marked as an explosive element on the level of language. Mirroring the “explosives" on the level of language (Burns) in the level of action (cigarette) connects these two levels. In this way affective tension in interspersed (Burns = dynamite), which however transitions into a continuous relaxation (Dane and the group = the rope). In this way, structural characteristics of the staging orchestrate the respective emotional qualities: Interspersed events evoke danger; continuity is tied to responsibility and group cohesion.    SG

Expressive movement units

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Materials about the scene

Position of the scene in the film