Horror genre movies have been going around for years, and have always been a success. However, horror movies have had been lacking diegetic and synchronous sound. Movies such as The Cabinet Of Doctor Caligari (1919) use their mise en scene such as their sets design, camera angles, non-diegetic soundtracks and tint to enhance the lack of sound , to increase the tension. However it is different for the infamous horror movie, Frankenstein (1931).
Frankenstein, in defiance to this norm, uses a lot of synchronized sound or diegetic sound elements. The movie does not use any soundtrack, and utilizes generic set designs. Its application of diegetic sound is used to increase the tension and to create a more spooky feeling throughout the whole movie: natural sounds such as thunder and rain, muffled or creaking sounds of footsteps when people are approaching from behind or walking up the stairs, are used frequently in the movie. Even without any soundtrack or tint, it creates spooky or
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Here the sound of the thunder gradually decreases. This arrangement of sound once again increases the eeriness of the atmosphere and in turn the excitement of all the characters and us the audience. As the monster reaches the ground, the hand of the monster starts to move, and Dr. Frankenstein’s face gradually shifts to show elation. Slowly, he said: “its moving!” and as he speaks the sound of the thunder dies down. The director wanted us to once again focus on what Frankenstein is saying. He later then shouted, “It’s alive!” and he claims that in the name of God he know how it feels like to be a god. From this dialog, and the tone of his sound, we could once again clearly see that Dr. Frankenstein simply sees himself as a much more superior being than the others, even comparing himself to God, the creator of all
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To start off, Quentin Tarantino gave much attention to detail in his diegetic sounds. By including crickets chirping, floorboards creaking, bullets ricocheting off multiple surfaces, and, of course, blood splatter, Tarantino truly brings his audience into the old American west. Another example of diegetic sounds in the film is when Dr. Schultz is waiting for Mr. Candie to sign the papers
As the creator and father of the monster, it was Frankenstein's duty to teach it right from wrong, to care and nurture it like you would a child, because that is what the monster was inside- an unknowing child. As soon as he was created, the monster had a need for love; it reaches an outstretched hand towards Frankenstein showing a want for recognition and love. ' A grin wrinkled his cheeks' The monster even tries to communicate but it can only utter 'inarticulate sounds' as it was yet to be taught how to speak, which should have been the task of Frankenstein.
Tim Burton used two different types of sounds in the movie Edward Scissorhands. Tim used Diegetic and Non Digetic sounds. Diegetic is sounds that the characters in the movie or story can hear, For example birds chirping, a car door closing, and a phone ringing.Non Diegetic is sounds the characters can’t hear like, music playing in the intro when it shows the credits, or music playing during a flashback.Tim Burton used these types of sound throughout the movie.He used Diegetic sound, he used it when the family had a barbeque the characters could hear the food cook on the grill.He also used it when they played music from the radio.Tim also used Non Diegetic sound, he used it when night turned into day the music was playing.He also used it when
Critic Chris Bond clearly claims this idea by saying that by creating the monster, Frankenstein sought to usurp God. Actually, to be more precise, Frankenstein sought to be the god of his own new species created with his own two hands. Chris Bond also sees Frankenstein and his work as “egotistical” and vain, and sees Frankenstein as a person whose whole selfish desire to create life stems from a need to be god rather than a “disinterested desire to further the interests of the human race”. True Frankenstein does claim that he would “in the process of time” use the knowledge he had gained to “renew life” in an effort to aid humanity, it is apparent by the way simply abandoned the monster he had created rather than actually take responsibility for what he had done, that Frankenstein was more interested in his personal interests and safety rather than that of humanity as a whole. Frankenstein never truly planned to help humanity, instead humanity was simply an afterthought. Mr. Bond goes on to quote a line from the beginning of the book which hints that Victor only sees science as a tool to unlock the secrets of the world rather than as an altruistic too to better the world out of the goodness of his own heart. Frankenstein didn’t care that he inadvertently set loose a dangerous beast upon the world until he was personally affected by the death of his brother, William. Victor was no god. He was merely a mortal trying to ignore the grievous sin he committed by trying to play
He then reacts, saying “Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust.” Who knows why the monster didn’t scare Frankenstein before he was alive, but he sure scared the health out of him once he brought the monster to life. This led the monster to abandon his creator and fret over not being accepted even by the man who crated and brought him to life which some could flat out say that was the start of the monster’s hatred for men in the end.
Victor Frankenstein was obsessed with science and anatomy, and the balance between life and death while he was a university student. Frankenstein claimed to create the monster to better mankind, but it is more likely he created him out of the desire to become more like a God. “. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me; I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption. (Shelley 54)” This is basically Victor explaining how he wants to cheat death and create a new race of species. Victor wants the creature to look at him as a God figure or as his ruler. The irony is that Victor never gives the creature a chance and that is the reason the monster did all the
The creature is not human because he doesn't have feeling and only animal and humans have feelings. According to the text it said, ‘Cursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?(Gris, chapter 7,6) Here is when even he admits that he is a monster and he is ugly and also Here is when the creature reads the journal and then gets upset because in the journal he writes how hideous the creature is and that he regrets making him. What the creature is trying to say is that why did he make him if you are going to run after. Also that why did he have to be so ugly and big.
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Horror films are known for their ability to scare audiences, to get the audience’s hearts racing, their blood rushing. A good horror film will cause viewers to be on the edge of their seats and having their perception of reality distorted as they attempt to understand the unraveling plot of the horror film. The tone of the film aides in the amount of suspense that a horror film produces, since a much darker film will create a more suspenseful atmosphere than one that is more focused on campy monster makeup. But the tone of a film is determined by the sound of the film, or in other words, the score. Sound or music in a horror film, or the lack thereof, make the intense scenes and without the addition
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I completely understand, I'm not a huge Twitter fan myself after having one for a period of time it just became uninteresting I had even deleted it about two weeks before the actual assignment. So to learn that I had to create another one I felt like here we go again. But overall like yourself I also thought it was a great way to adapt the Frankenstein novel, however it lost some of the novel's depth in the process.
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