Film Techniques
This film technique refers to everything you see on screen (props, costumes, setting, and lighting).
What is mise-en-scène?
According to the original definition, the MPDG exists solely to provide "spiritual depth" to this specific archetype of a male protagonist.
Who is the brooding (or depressed/soul-searching) young man?
Clementine’s name connects to this folk song she sings, which is also famously associated with Huckleberry Hound.
“Oh My Darling, Clementine”?
This is the company that erases memories.
What is Lacuna Inc.
What is a gap, blank space, or missing part in a manuscript, text, artistic work, or logical argument?
This technique focuses on how the camera is used, including angles, movement, and framing.
What is cinematography?
This 2005 film starring Kirsten Dunst was the genesis of the MPDG term.
What is Elizabethtown?
What is the song Clementine about?
What is a girl dying?
What is the name of the river Joel and Clementine visit?
What is the frozen Charles River?
Charlie Kaufman won an Academy Award for this category for Eternal Sunshine.
What is Best Original Screenplay?
This refers to sound added for the audience that characters cannot hear, such as background music or narration.
What is non-diegetic sound?
What is quirky, non-committal, outspoken. Has no character development. Leaves after changing the male main characters perspective on life.
The film’s title is taken from a poem by this 18th-century English poet.
Who is Alexander Pope?
The holiday is this movie set around?
What is Valentine's Day?
The category of film Eternal Sunshine belongs to, alongside other films such as Inception, and Momento?
What is a puzzle film?
Joel appears as a child in memories using this specific technique.
What is forced perspective?
This 2009 film starring Zooey Deschanel is often cited as a deliberate deconstruction of the trope.
What is (500) Days of Summer?
The author of the quote: "Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders"
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
Clementine’s hair colour often signals her emotional state. This specific colour is worn during the end of their relationship.
What is blue ruin?
In a deleted scene is is revelad Mary had this procedure done.
What is an abortion?
The name of the surrealist film directed by Luis Brunel and Salvadore Dali that Eternal Sunshine pulls from?
What is Un Chein Andalou (An Andalousian Dog).
Who is Ramona Flowers?
The film quotes a line from the poem Eloisa to Abelard, "How happy is the blameless vestal's lot". What is the definition of vestal?
What is chaste, pure, or virginal?
The chronological sequence of Clementines hair colours in the film.
What is green, red, orange, blue?
This is how often are patients able to have their memories erased.
What is once a month?