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A Poignant and Beautiful Application Practice of Film Semiotics in the Ending-the Character Portrayal of "Leon"

Author(s)

Jincheng Tang1, Fengrun Li2

Affiliation(s)

1Monash University, 900 Dandenong Rd, Caulfield East VIC 3145 Australia 2Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China

Abstract

Jean Epstein, a French film theorist and director, believed that film is a universal language. As one of the core elements of film art creation, how to shape well-developed film characters is a problem that every director must solve. Directors of different styles all have unique artistic expression strategies for character shaping. A detailed analysis of character images is one of the important research topics for film creators. This article aims to analyze the artistic expression methods of the director's character image shaping in "Leon the Killer" from the perspective of "application of film semiotics", with the expectation of re-understanding this classic killer image on the screen and other impressive characters in the story.

Keywords

Character Image Building; Film Language; Film Semiotics; "Leon"

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