Blog Post 2

I chose to write about the road trouble scene in Duel: Remastered Youtube video where the car and a big truck are on a road rage.The framing and continuity in the scene can already gives us an idea about what is going on. The truck takes up the whole frame as it is in front of the car slowing it down. The frame even shows the smaller car then cuts in front of the big truck then gets mad as the big truck cuts in front of him. The camera on the truck cutting here could make us wonder if the truck is intentionally slowing him down on a road that needs to be at a higher speed limit. The fact that the framing and continuity demonstrates the truck is slowing the car down can show us that he figured he would lose the car if it went in front of him going faster. The car then goes in front of the big truck again to get to his destination quicker and get away from the truck. The continuity shows there seems to be no problem afterwards since the driver of the smaller car was happy and the truck was far away in the frame. As soon as he goes to the gas station, we see there is still something wrong as the big truck goes there as well. In the scene with the gas station, we can see that there is a possible conflict continuing as the truck goes to the gas station following the car. The continuity editing in the scene with the truck and the car on the road cutting to the gas station shows that it shows that the truck driver may want to cause harm to the driver of the smaller car. 

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