Sunday, November 27, 2011
What Divides Normal Life and The Mafia Life
In The Godfather, there is a scene that shows how a doorway could be used to illustrate something other than an item that opens and closes. When Luca Brasi was preparing to go befriend the Tattaglias, he was putting on his bullet-proof vest. The scene is shot from in front of the doorway to his bedroom. The camera is looking through the open door at Luca putting on his vest and a shirt. After he puts on his clothes, he walks out of the doorway (still in view of the stable camera) and grabs his gun where the movie then changes the scene. I think that the door really represents how the door divides his normal life and his mafia life. On the other side of the door, he is just a normal person changing to go to work and immediately after he walks through the door, he goes back to his mafia life and grabs his gun. This door can also symbolize a barrier between the safe world and the dangerous mafia world. In Luca's bedroom, he is safe but as he leaves his bedroom, he enters the unsafe mafia world where he needs to carry a gun to protect himself.
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It is interesting how something as basic as doors play such a huge role in this movie. I think that there is a connection between how the doors are like barriers. I wonder if there are other pieces of furniture that represent elements of the regular and mafia world. Also, how do we know which side of the door is the safe side and which side of it is the dangerous side? Is there a way to tell that we just have not noticed yet? I also noticed that shots are often taken through open doors. Obviously it would not make sense to take them through closed doors, but when they take shots through open doors, it seems like when he walks through the doors, he is going through the gateway between the mafia world and regular world so I certainly agree with your theory.
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