April 19, 2012
Futurama
Just a few days back i watched one of my favorite Futurama episodes, "Jurassic Bark," quite possibly the saddest ending to any show i have ever seen. Even though the show is animated Futurama did a superb job with a few film techniques that help solidify the sadness of the ending. Fry imagines that his dog, Seymour, lived a full life without him and that he probably doesn't even remember him. This transitions into a flashback to the year 2000, the year after fry was frozen to the year 3000 leaving his dog. A montage is shown of Fry's dog sitting outside the pizza place he used to work at. Seasons go by quickly as the show transitions to each one. Years go by and Fry's dog continues to sit outside the pizza place. A sad song is played in the background to show that his dog continued to wait for him throughout his entire life. The slides end with the song ending the year his dog died. This is the exact opposite of what Fry imagined his dogs life would be like which adds even further to the emotion of the episode. The episodes name is appropriately named, Jurassic Bark, since his dog had such a profound influence on his life.
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I also watched an episode of Futurama this week. I agree with Tommy that a lot of Futurama episodes often times have some of the saddest endings. But this episode that I saw had an extremely happy ending. The episode that I watched was “The Devil’s Hand’s Are Idle Playthings”, which was originally the series finale. In this episode, Fry tries to learn the holophonor to help win over Leela’s love and affection. Fry makes a deal with the Robort Devil, foreshadowing that something bad is going to occur. With the deal he gets a hand transplant and plays an opera. During the opera, mis en scene is used when the Devil Robert can be seen closes to the stage, helping to show that he has the most power over Fry’s outcome and performance. He does, as he then takes his hands back and throws a smoke bomb in the crowd. A close-up is then done on Fry’s face to help show that he is extremely upset that he will be unable to impress Leela. A long shot is then used to show the viewer that Leela is still in the audience. Leela then approaches Fry, and Fry, with his own hands, starts to play a song for Leela, where the episode ends with a cartoonish Fry and Leela kissing and holding hands.
ReplyDeleteI have also watched the futurama episode "Jurassic Bark". I liked it but I also thought it was one of the saddest episodes of futurama I have seen. The ending of it where his dog spent the rest of his life sitting infront of the pizza shop was heartbreaking. There were many film techniques used. In addition to the ones you mentioned, there was also some low angle shots, a match on action, and some tracking. The low angle shots were used when the Professor is showing them the machine he made to bring the dog back to life. He is explaining that the machine would need to harness the power of nature and during this scene, and a low angle was used on the professor with the machine behind him and the sky behind the machine. This showed that the machine was powerful, but the lightning in the sky was even more powerful than that. A match on action was used when Fry was running. There was a transition that started with his feet while he was running and then moved to his dog's feet when his dog was running. Also, there was alot of tracking used because there was alot of running during this episode. Both Fry and his dog ran the most because alot of this episode was Fry delivering pizzas.
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