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Thin Red Line Argumentative Essay

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The most fundamental and prominent component of the soundtrack is undoubtedly the dialogue. The dialogue aligns the screenplay and scenes while complementing the screenplay, score, cinematography and story line. With out the dialogue this would have been a jumbled so so movie.

The end scene affirms this. Through out the movie you hear a narrative of intimate thoughts and dialogue from key and characters. This narrative keeps the film in alignment and on track for the ending. At the end you see a young red head man leaning contemplatively at the edge of ship leaving the island watching other ships and land crafts approach the island attentively. Private First Class recites "Where is it that we were together? Who were you that l lived with? Walked with? The brother. The friend. Darkness from light. Strife from love. Are they the workings of one mind? The features of the same face? Oh, my soul, let me be in you now. Look out through my eyes. Look out at the things you made. All things shining." This statement correlates and makes parallel in a real time, real life time (movie character but relative to actual life and people) chronological order. The statement finishes and sums up the earlier narratives in the film. Without this ending …show more content…

So needless to say (in my opinion) Hans Zimmer does excellent work however for Thin Red Line I feel he did ok work. The score was generic to a war themed movie, such as We Were Soldiers, Saving Private Ryan and Red Tails. While Thin Red Line's score was definitely better then Red Tails it was no where close to the awesome composition to the work I know Hans Zimmer to do. The music does not over power or under estimate any scenes, it seems to do just enough. However the score does melt well with the cinematography but it doesn't enlighten or provide a spectacular arrangement with it

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