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Devil in a Blue Dress : Opening Sequence

Laid off from the factory, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins (Denzel Washington) is introduced by his friend Joppy (Mel Winkler) to DeWitt Albright (Tom Sizemore), who offers him a job.

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ambient sound , close-up, crane shot, dissolve, dolly in, eyeline match, fade-in, flashback, full shot, hard cut, historical mise-en-scene, medium shot, narrator, over the shoulder shot, pan, shallow focus, sound lag, tilt, two-shot, whip pan

Diversity in Media Representation

Black: African-American, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, White: White American

"Opening Sequence" in Devil in a Blue Dress. Directed by Carl Franklin, Mundy Lane Entertainment, 1995, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=1881

This clip was uploaded by Kinolab.org user Eduardo Mendoza

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