Watching the scene from the 2003 Hulk movie with visuals only was certainly different. The scene starts with Eric Bana as Bruce in the bathroom shaving his face. It is a close up shot of the razer gliding across his neck. The shot switches and is now looking from behind him as he starts to wipe the foggy mirror. Bruce sees something in the mirror and leans in for a closer look. The camera cuts to the to have the same angle behind Hulk, who is in the mirror looking back at Bruce and mimicking his movement of wiping the mirror. It cuts back to the view behind Bruce when Hulk busts through the mirror, grabs Bruce, says something, and then pulls him into a blue void behind the mirror.

The scene was easy to follow the second time with the screen off and the sound on. There is soft background music. The razor can be heard scraping Bruce’s face. The music goes quiet and a faint squeak can be heard from the mirror. There are some eerie sounds with a low growl before the sound of broken glass. A deep Hulk voice says, “puny human” followed by a woosh and another glass breaking sound.

When putting it all together, I see many of the filmmaking techniques being demonstrated in this clip. One of the main ones that I notices was the placement of the characters on screen. Following the ideas presented in Ebert’s essay, Bruce is on the right side of the screen and the Hulk is on the left because Hulk is being portrayed negatively in this scene. Even when the camera flips to the other side of the mirror, Hulk is still on the left side of the shot.

Another technique that I noticed is the one point perspective that was showcased in the Kubrick compilation. The shot is behind the back and looking at the mirror. It switches between being behind Bruce and Hulk’s back. Switching between characters with the same shot on them is an interesting choice because it reinforces that Hulk and Bruce are the same person. Bruce is having an internal conflict with himself.