The scene shows the Four Horsemen planning to steal a powerful chip that controls the world's computers. They use various non-verbal cues during the heist to avoid detection. These include gestures like one character pretending to sneeze as a signal, kinesics such as facial expressions to seem calm, and haptics such as a pat on the back. The group skillfully uses body language and touch to communicate and successfully steal the chip without raising suspicion.
The scene shows the Four Horsemen planning to steal a powerful chip that controls the world's computers. They use various non-verbal cues during the heist to avoid detection. These include gestures like one character pretending to sneeze as a signal, kinesics such as facial expressions to seem calm, and haptics such as a pat on the back. The group skillfully uses body language and touch to communicate and successfully steal the chip without raising suspicion.
The scene shows the Four Horsemen planning to steal a powerful chip that controls the world's computers. They use various non-verbal cues during the heist to avoid detection. These include gestures like one character pretending to sneeze as a signal, kinesics such as facial expressions to seem calm, and haptics such as a pat on the back. The group skillfully uses body language and touch to communicate and successfully steal the chip without raising suspicion.
The scene shows the Four Horsemen planning to steal a powerful chip that controls the world's computers. They use various non-verbal cues during the heist to avoid detection. These include gestures like one character pretending to sneeze as a signal, kinesics such as facial expressions to seem calm, and haptics such as a pat on the back. The group skillfully uses body language and touch to communicate and successfully steal the chip without raising suspicion.
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MOVIE SCENE ANALYSIS
SYNOPSIS
For this task, we choose a scene about a small group discussion which is taken is from movie title ‘Now You See Me 2’. In this film, the illusionists known as the Four Horsemen (Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Lizzy Caplan, and Dave Franco) return to perform a spectacular stunt in the hopes of clearing their names and exposing the unscrupulous behaviour of a tech mogul named Walter Mabry (Daniel Radcliffe). However, Mabry soon turns the tables, and forces the group to steal a revolutionary decryption device for him. The are several reasons why we choose this film. Apart from it has scenes that used of non-verbal communication, this film is very informative and highly entertaining.
The scene can be shown in the movie when a small group called Four Horsemen had a plan to steal a powerful chip that can control all of the world’s computer and it is tightly controlled inside a room. Thus, they used variety of non-verbal communication so that their plan cannot be traced by the security. Based on this scene, the dimensions of non-verbal communication that appear in this scene is personal dimensions. There are several types of personal dimension can be shown in the scene which is gestures, kinesics and haptics.
1. Gestures From this scene, during the minute of 1.32, there is a type of nonverbal communication that is gestures. Gestures is where deliberate movements and signals are used. For example, in this scene, Woody Harrelson (Merritt McKinney) deliberately pretends to sneeze in that controlled room at the same time, which means a signal to start a chip stealing mission performed by Jack Wilder (Dave Franco) and Lula (Lizzy Caplan).
2. Kinesics Kinesics can be referring to body language. One of the body languages can be form through facial expression. In minutes 2:40, after successfully stole the chip, Jack Wilder try to make a cool face expression like nothing happen as he want to avoid from being caught. Besides in minutes 5:30, Lizzy Caplan make a facial expression with her eyes closed as she feels very relieved because she and the teammates almost being caught for stealing the chips from the securities.
3. Haptics Haptics is a form of non-verbal communication using a sense of touch. For instance, haptics communication is handshake, or a gentle pat on back, or a high five. The sense of touch allows one to experience different sensations. From this scene, during minutes 2:05 one of the securities raise his left arms at the Jesse Eisenberg in order to block him as he wants to go through to his friend. Besides, during minutes 4:14, when the security performing a body checking for a security purpose towards Lizzy Caplan, she taps the shoulder of one of the securities as she feels uneasy and told that she can take off the clothes by herself. In minutes 5:55, Jack Wilder patting the security’s back as he praises the security for giving back his jacket.
