Treatment

Its 6:45 PM, a young man sitting at a coffee shop, playing with his fingers, while every few seconds he takes a sip of his coffee. The clock tics past 6:45, a young woman walks into the coffee shop, the bells make noise as she walks past the door. She sits a few tables in front of him. He notices her hair tied into a messy pony tail. HE thinks to himself, she must of have had a long day. He notices a couple of food stains on her waitress shirt. She must of had a long day being a waitress at one of the diners around town. He notices her makeup smudged from all the sweat she gained at work. An exhausted face, she must of been tired.

She scoots in her chair, crossing her legs. He notices her getting up to get a couple packs of sugar. She tally marks the wall next to her, where it seems like someone has been doing that for a while judging by all the tally marks in that one wall. The last thing he notices is how she leaves a tip in the tip jar before she leaves.

The next day, and the same time the young man sat and the same spot. He heard the bell ringing again, and the same young woman came in and sat at the same spot. She did exactly what she had done the day before; scoots in her chair, crosses her legs, gets up to go get packs of sugar, tally marks the wall and leaving the tip.

The day after, the same thing.

After a few days after the young man had started noticing her he decides to try something. Before the young woman got there, he placed a wooden block in front of the leg of the chair she always sat in. He took away all the sugar packs so it would be empty. He painted over the tally marks she had made. And he took away the tip jar and placed it somewhere else.

A few minutes passed 6:45 the bell rings, and the lady comes in. She goes to her usual spot and sits down. She tries to scoot in, but is unable because of the wooden block. The woman is confused, but moves on anyways. She then goes to get sugar packs for her coffee, but is unable because there is nothing left. She sits back down, and drinks the coffee sugarless. As she took out her pen to tally mark the wall, she noticed it was all gone, all her tally marks were gone. As she got up to leave and tip the coffee shop, the tip jar wasn't there, but instead a note that read, "Don't make everyday just another day, be different." She looked around to see who would done something like this, she noticed the young man, he smiled, she smiled.

Amelie Textual Analysis

1. The first stylistic advice that i noticed in the move Amelie Poulain was how the director emphasized the littlest details. For example in the beginning of the movie when he is introducing the characters, for each characters he gives us a couple of things they like, and hate. This makes us get to know the character better in as little as five seconds. This helps us relate to the characters more because it makes them seem more human, it shows that they are just as simple as anyone else. By doing this it also makes us think of the little details throughout the movie are going to be important.

2. Another one i found was the colors that the director chose. He basically looked at this movie like it was a painting, and used the colors of that painting throughout the whole movie. The colors he chose were red, green and a bit of of blue. He also saturated the parts of the film to emphasize what he wanted the audience to focus on, making the film more interesting and unique to watch.

3. A third one i notice is how the director creates a magical realism feeling. For example when Amelie rushes to the next room, it makes a loud airplane sound which of course in real life it would never happen. He does this a couple of times with his sound effects, which makes us focus more on what they are doing. He also showed this in one scene where Amelie is just a little girl and shes taking a picture of the clouds, and one happened to be in the shape of a teddy bear, and a bunny.

4.  A fourth one i noticed was the sound design. The choice of music he chose, made us feel like we were in France. It also wasnt very distracting but it was definitely noticeable and memorable. The director also chose to keep some moments of the movie quiet, with no sound at all which made the moments more intimate and made us pay closer attention to what is happening.