Analysis Of The Movie Madame Tutli Putli - 1493 Words

Madame Tutli-Putli is a 2007 stop motion animated short film by Montreal filmmakers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, collectively known as Clyde Hyde Productions. This stop motion animated film takes viewers on an elating existential adventure into the completely envisioned, material universe of our main character, Madame Tutli-Putli, as she ventures alone on a train weighed down with all her natural belongings and the phantoms of her past, she confronts both the consideration and threat of outsiders. Finding herself entrapped in a desperate metaphysical adventure unfastened in the middle of genuine and envisioned universes, Madame Tutli-Putli confronts her demons. In this critical essay I will be exploring how the theme of one’s life journey and the acceptance of death as an inevitability is communicated through Visual Style/Mise-en-scene, Narrative Structure and Characteristics. Set in the first half of the twentieth century, Madame Tutli-Putli is unique to say the least. Its Mise-en-scene is extraordinary and striking. Mise-en-scene is the arrangement of everything that appears in the framing – actors, lighting, dà ©cor, props, costume – is called Mise-en-scà ¨ne, a French term that means â€Å"placing on stage.† Madame Tutli-Putli has a unique Mise-en-scene based in stop motion. The short film itself took 5 years to create and was lauded by critics for its game changing stop-motion animation techniques. Portrait artist Jason Walker crafted a system of adding composited human