Winter Cinema 1

            When watching a film all sounds including the music are an important part of the whole experience.  Try watching a scene in a movie without any sound at all. You most likely with have a completely different feeling about the scene.  In the movie clip we watched in class from “Nowhere to Hide” there was a scene where the man was waited in his car for a while until the other man got out of work and he then killed him. They only while he waited was the sound of rain.  The “rain carries the burden of mood more often delegated to music” (166). The rain made the viewers think that something bad or sad was going to happen and it certainly did. In Steven Spielberg film “Jaws” without certain sounds it would not be nearly as scary. The sound in particular was that music that was played when the shark was approaching.  You don’t know when or where it would appear but you knew it was approaching. A movie like “Jaws” had an impact on the audience because millions of people had a hard time going in the water after watching the movie. Music and sound are important and equally so is the use of color in the picture. “Color itself is used in this way-- applied in whichever way it has most impact on the audience”(Rutherford 165). The colors in the film make it more appealing to the eye and try to guide the audience’s attention to where they want them to be looking

            In Lebovici's words: "Film is a dream…” it states that it raises the question as to what elements of film may be sufficiently “dream-like to launch the audience into reveries and perhaps even influence their course” (163). I like to quote movies a lot in my everyday speech and when I use them, I will picture that scene in the movie and try to use the expression and tone the same way it was used in the movie. Movies are a very important part of the way I live in the real world.

     When Pandian described how a young man and he were going down a riverbank when the young man expressed a desire to wait a few minutes so he could wave his legs in the water-“like cinema’’ (131). This reminds me of the movie “Titanic,” where the two main characters are in the front of the ship and have their arms spread wide so they could feel like they are flying. I have seen people try to recreate that scene when they are on a ship or boat to make them feel “like cinema.”

            When I do go to a movie theatre, I try to always go early so I can see the trailers and previews of upcoming movies. I think most people feel the same way because there are usually a lot of people there when the trailers and previews start.  It is very different than watching a movie on TV where you do whatever you can to miss the commercials.  There is something special about going to the theatre. You are sitting in a comfortable chair watching on a big screen with big sound all around. It is a special experience and when it ends everyone is a critic. You walk out discussing the film whether it was a good movie or not.

-Chase Winter