Moonrise Kingdom

Moonrise Kingdom was an excellent film that incorporated the set design perfectly and all of the different scenes. Suzy and Sam’s relationship was also a very big part of the movie of course because they were the ones that ran away to escape from everyone. The Khaki scouts, Sam’s troop sets out to find them and it turned into an altercation that ended up in Suzy stabbing one of the scouts with scissors. They were then found but ran away again before a big storm hit the island and almost killing them.

            The main aspect that made this film so great was the locations that they were shot in. It was the perfect places to shoot them. Almost every shot in the film could be taken as a photograph on a postcard. The filming all took place in a span of a couple months in Rhode Island. The inside of the house in their playroom was aa amazing shot because everything was so symmetrical and very pleasing to look at. Suzy was usually sitting on the windowsill with her brothers on either side of the room. I thought it was a good tie around for the film because they started the movie in the room and ended it there also with Sam and Suzy being together.

            Another great production design element of the movie was the costumes. They were all hand stitched and the patches on the scout’s uniform looked excellent. They were also a main production design aspect as they took a lot of time on them. The child services lady walked in the church to take Sam away and she was dressed in all navy which signifies dominance and authority. She did have that, but she had it for the wrong reasons. Finally, Suzy most of the film wears pink which stands for love and of course she was in love with Sam the whole film.

            Overall, I think Moonrise Kingdom was a great movie that had a great plot with Sam and Suzy, but the movie also had the production design down to a key. It was excellent with the location they picked as it looked like a postcard every scene. The wardrobe was also very excellent as it represented many aspects of the characters and they really put thought into their costumes.