Sunday, January 9, 2011
The Three Short Films
So from these three films i have discovered that you have to focus on the characters with your eyes alot because obviously there is no sound. I love the facial expressions that the actors make so that they giive off their emotions and some of them just tried way to hard to sell an emotion that i found hilarious. One advantage i can think of that sound films carry is that you could show to all audiences and didnt have to bleep out any bad words because they weren't any. Obviously some of the challenges of making these movies is being able to sell the emotions of the characters without using words and having the dialogue kept to a minimal number of words that you could put on the screen. From the first movie we watched i felt bad for the character Viktor who married a huge gold-digger who clearly had no love for him and just wanted to use him to move herslef up in social status. In the second movie i found it extremely entertaining how dumb that husband was just letting his wife bring over the other man and not even check in the most obvious place. You would think that an old geeser like that would keep a closer eye on his younger attractive wife. That guy looked like he should have been on the Three Stooges or something the way he was acting. And finally the third movie which a found very depressing it was sad enough that the girl Gizzella had a dissablity and couldn't speak but then bith of men that she liked were terrible to her with one cheating on her and the other who ends up killing her. Im not sure what she was thinking with Glinsky when a guy thinks that a beard like that is cool you know that there is probably something wrong with him. The strategy that i found to watching these movies is that your eyes have to be glued to the screen because you cannot listen and you have to pay more attention to the characters and how they act.
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I agree that your eyes end up having to do much more in watching a silent film--whereas the sound in more modern movies helps tell us who or what we should be looking at and focusing on.
ReplyDeleteAlso consider this--what does it mean for a character to be mute in...a silent film!?! Is it really a handicap...do we have more trouble understanding her than we do the other characters? Or is she only handicapped in relation to the other characters?