I believe that the theme of this movie is how a racist old man overcomes his racism towards his Korean neighbors. This trailer/scene shows Walt (Clint Eastwood) caring for the people he dislikes because of this gang that is harassing everyone in the neighborhood. The scene shows Walt beating up, aiming a gun, and threatening these gang members to scare them so they stop messing with these innocent Korean neighbors. The theme is definitely didactic because the narrator is Clint Eastwood through the whole movie and he speaks what he thinks is not unreliable.
This is the scene in Gran Torino where Walt comes out of his house because of these gang members beating on Thao and his family. The director definitely used shape in the scene to make Walt appear more fierce than he is. He is holding a gun that gives him more of a triangular shape giving him more power. While the shape that is given to the gang members is round because the front gang member is more obese and has a very round head. The shot over the shoulder of Walt towards the gang members makes them look weak because its at a downward angle and makes you focus on the fatter gang member because your eyes follow the line of the gun. But the reverse shot of that makes Walt more powerful because it’s an upward angle towards Walts face and you also can follow the “line” formed by the gun to his face. Movement is another used key element in this scene. From start to finish Walt never stops edging forward towards the gang while it’s the opposite from start to finish for the gang, as they keep backing away from Walt and eventually run away. The last element used is shadows, which make everyone of the gang members faces extremely dark and evil. The lighting on Walts face is extremely light and gives him the persona of someone doing good. This is one of the most powerful scenes in the movie and breaking it down to the elements that make it really shows me what the director was thinking about when he planed it out and shot it.
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