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Within the five-minute clip of The Devil’s Advocate (1997) that was shown we see an increase in tension that builds throughout. Themes of religion and the supernatural, power, responsibility and inability as well as jealousy can be found overlapping during the two scenes. All of these themes are helping to intensify this section of film into a crescendo. Textual strategies are intrinsically used to aid the prominence of the themes and the intensity of the scene resulting in the nervousness of the audience. This continues up until the culminating climax where the character of Eddie Barzoon is attacked by homeless men. Theses strategies then quickly switch levels so as to bring the audience back down to a calmer sense of stability. The section began with an establishing shot of a busy New York street. The main theme in this scene is jealousy, found in Eddy Barzoon’s jealousy of Keanu Reeves’ character, Kevin Lomax. This jealousy creates intensity in the scene. We see Lomax coming out from a store dressed in casual clothing and smoking a cigarette so we instantly see him in a relaxed state. Barzoon then jogs over and his initial ‘hello’ is friendly. To maintain this friendly atmosphere, as they begin to walk and t