Untouchables and Carlito's Way

[Polidano]

The train station scene at the end of Carlito's Way and The Untouchables is very suspenseful - go over the techniques used by director Brian De Palma to achieve this?  Which of these affected you most?

[Prajwitha28]

Both, the train station scene at the end of Carlito's way and the untouchables affected my view because in the untouchables, the baby stroller was going down the stairs and Ness was trying to save the baby. The scene was very slow and it made the audience almost In Carlito's way, Carlito gets shot and it was soooo sudden. The audience didn't even expect this to happen to him, but Brian De Palma wanted the audience to feel intimacy/ scared moment( I don't know the proper term but its when the audience feel like vomiting cause it just makes them sick). Brien De Palma also used some good camera moments such as spinning in Carlitos way and moving back and forth in the Untouchables.

[JackFischer]

Both the untouchables and Carlitos way have very suspenseful endings. De Palma uses techniques to get that feeling across to the audience. Some techniques used was slow motion. With slow motion the audience is waiting to see what will happen next but now that it is in slow motion, the audience will have to wait longer for something to happen. There is slot of quick cuts to create the fast past action of the scene. The mother in The Untouchables is a crate way to create suspense. The audience knows something is going to happen and when the mother is struggling to get up the stairs and Ness has to help her, we are scared for him because he could get ambushed. The technique that I found the most useful was the use of music. If these scenes had slow and quite music it would not give off the same felling like it does with quick and loud. Because of the quick and loud music the audience knows something is going to happen and we are preparing for something to happen to them. The music was the first thing I noticed and it made me feel sacred for Ness and his team and Carlito.

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[paulasojor]

Brian de Palma's techniques and strategies as a director are evident in the final scenes of both Carlito's way and The Untouchables. In the Untouchables, De Palma used camera angles , high/low, accompanied by quick & smooth camera movement, to create a suspenseful and chaotic scene for the audience. The director used similar camera techniques in Carlito's way. When Carlito was first shot, the music became mellow and sad. Gail's emotion and acting was executed in a very successful manner which was further emphasized by extreme close up's of her and Carlito. Towards the end of the scene, once Carlito is carried off into a stretcher, the camera pans up and flips upside down causing a feeling of discomfort for the viewers much like the untouchable's scene.

[Brendan schuck]

Both scenes are very suspenseful and this is achieved by the various techniques used by Brian de Palma in both films. In Carlitos Way, De Palma uses slow motion as Carlito gets shot and he also spins the camera around giving an uneasy feeling and also to show how Carlitos life is being spun out of control.
The scene in the untouchables affected me more as Brian threw a baby into the mix making everything more impactful and suspenseful. The slow build to the scene built up the suspense and when the action started De Palma used a lot of quick cuts back and forth to the baby and the gunfight to show the danger the child was in which makes the audience fearful for the safety of the child.

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[tori w]

De Palma is able to create a tense and suspenseful environment by overstimulating his audience. During the train scene in 'The Untouchables,' the audience is given a multitude of things to worry about. First, the audience is worried about the safety of the Elliot Ness as he attempts to arrest the bookkeeper; many suspicious figures appear and it's clear from the mood set by De Palma that something bad is soon to happen. Then De Palma gives us a mother and young child to worry about. We watch the mother struggle to bring a stroller up the stairs and to build further tension even more people passing through the station to add a sense of chaos and uncertainty of which faces are malicious or not. This chaos is only amplified when the shootout begins and the woman's child is caught in the crossfire. The audience is at the edge of their seats because there is so much going on between the visuals and the music in the background that creates unease. This same strategy is used in 'Carlito's Way'. The train scene in 'Carlito's Way' takes place in a crowded and chaotic New York subway while Carlito is being chased by the Mob. De Palma expertly utilizes this setting as the crowded nature of the subway creates uncertainty of whether or not Carlito will be able to escape. Throughout the scene, many people get in Carlito's way and he's forced to weave through tight spaces while the mobsters keep getting closer and closer. De Palma is fully aware that disorganized situations create feelings of stress and unease which is why he creates anarchic situations in order to generate suspense.

[gabriella velante]

In both Carlito’s Way and The Untouchables, Brian De Palma creates very intense scenes. The techniques that this director uses are the various camera angles, editing effects and music. In The Untouchables, the viewers can feel the anxiety and suspense during the shoot down as many parts were in slow motion. De Palma uses the same slow motion in Carlito’s way when the paramedics rushes in to get Carlito. Both of these films had very intense music during the chases. The technique that affected me the most was the slow motion and the addition of the baby in The Untouchables. The safety of the baby is what viewers wanted the assurance of, which made it even more suspenseful as the baby was falling in slow motion. De Palma was very good at building up the uneasy feelings for viewers to get to those intense scenes.

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