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Choose one of the following options to prompt your brief written response 300+ wrds film: Trojan Women (1971)

Option 1. Setting the stage. As we have discussed, mise-en-scene can do a lot to shape the audience's feel for the story and its characters through e.g., setting, props, lighting, costume, hair/makeup, staging of actors/objects within a shot. Michael Cacoyannis' film is quite intentional about using various elements of mise-en-scene to "set the stage" for its tale of misery. In this response, identify and discuss how two elements of mise-en-scene set the tone of the film and/or shape its characters.

Option 2. The villainy of Helen? As you have seen in La Caduta di Troia, Love of Three Queens, and Helen of Troy, artists have a good degree of flexibility in how they choose to represent the character of Helen: her motives, her agency, her appearance, her capture at war's end. Even when films provide an explicit financial motive for the Greeks making their war and note that Helen's departure is not the reason but merely the pretext, films tend to push audience to formulate some kind of judgment about Helen. In this response, discuss how The Trojan Women presents a villainous Helen, relative to other versions we have seen.