In today's post I am going to create the script for my video review of Blue Jasmine (2013).
T H E S C R I P T
Blue Jasmine is a drama film directed and written by Woody Allen. It stars Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Sally Hawkins and the rest simply astonishing cast. The film came out in theaters on August 23rd 2013.
[CLIP SHOWING THE FIRST SECONDS IN FILM]
The film is telling the story of the downgrading housewife Jasmine Francis (played by Blanchett) who is struggling with her life after the passing of her husband, to whom Jasmine gave up on her higher education so that she could be with him.
[CLIP SHOWING CATE BLANCHETT IN FILM]
The action is taking a place mainly in San Francisco with some flashbacks taking us to New York, where the titled Blue Jasmine has spent most of her life before her husband's death.
[CLIP SHOWING SAN FRANCISCO FROM THE FILM]
San Francisco is the place where Jasmine is heading to start a new life. It is a home of her sister, Ginger (Sally Hawkins), who offers her a help and lets Jasmine stay in her house until she will find a job and be ready to live by herself.
[CLIP SHOWING SALLY HAWKINS AS GINGER]
While staying at sister's place the viewer gets to know Jasmine better. Through the flashbacks and conversation with Ginger some secrets are reveled. Jasmine's husband went to jail because of the tax fraud. Later on it is reveled that he committed suicide leaving Jasmine without any financial support making her a bankrupt.
[CLIP SHOWING JASMINE HAVING A MENTAL BREAKDOWN]
Jasmine decides to find a job which later on she leaves making her sister very upset. She goes to the party when she meets for the first time a man who she describes as a opportunity to get back her old, expensive lifestyle, but to interest potential new husband Jasmine decides to colour up her life, she lies about her profession saying than she is an interior designer. These lies poison the mind of that man leading it to the proposal.
[CLIP SHOWING JASMINE MEETING THE NEW MAN]
''But a lie cannot live forever''. While looking for the perfect engagement ring Jasmine and her fiance meet an ex husband of Jasmine's sister, Augie. Augie revels all the secrets in front of her unaware fiance making him furious about the fact that his future wife made up her background story and that leads to breaking the engagement.
[CLIP OF JASMINE AND HER FIANCE MEETING AUGIE]
After being exposed to her fiance Jasmine goes back to her sister's apartment informing that she is fine and that she is moving out to live with her fiance, which is a lie because they already broke up the engagement. She leaves the house, she goes the the park and she stars speaking to herself. Jasmine thinks that she is in new york, her husband is alive and she recalls the first song that was played on their first date titled ''Blue Moon''.
[OPINION ON DIRECTING / WRITING]
The film is perfectly written and directed. The characters are really well written, they are not plain, they do have a background and depth. The film itself touches on very important subject in a modern society which is a mental health. Through the film the viewer witnesses the progression of the mental illness. The viewer hopes that eventually Jasmine will find a job, open a new chapter and basically move on with her life, but Jasmine is too broken to be fixed. She starts speaking to herself more frequently and finally she loses her mind completely, she loses the connection with the real world, the Jasmine is gone. After watching the film the viewer is left with the questions and thoughts that maybe if Jasmine would have gotten a proper mental health treatment she could have been saved from the misery that she eventually faced.
[OPINION ON ACTING]
The acting performance that the viewer was served is simply amazing. Everyone from the cast played their roles really convincing, especially Cate Blanchett, who made the viewer thought that Jasmine was not a fictional character and that she really existed. She poured her soul into that character making it one of her best acting performances if not the best.
[OPINION ON MUSIC]
The music in Blue Jasmine played an enormous role. The traditional jazz sounds accompanies the viewer through every scene of the film. Woody Allen have chosen a various jazz icons to give the film a flavor of a ''good old San Francisco'' and he has succeeded in it. Music from artists like King Oliver or Louis Armstrong takes the viewer into the film and at the end the film itself feels very realistic.
[ACHIEVEMENTS]
The film turned out to be a massive box office success earning 100 million dollars worldwide with the budget of 18 million dollars. It also has earned an Oscar nomination for Cate Blanchett in the Best Actress category, which she won making her the first ever Australian actor (including all, man and woman) to win that award twice. (The first Oscar she won for the role of Catherine Hepburn in Aviator). Other than that Blanchett for her role of Jasmine Francis also won a Golden Globe, BAFTA Award and Critics Choice Award.
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