1. I’ve always seen horror movies as an experience. More like a roller coaster than a movie. I believe horror movies are great at making you feel the suspense and the fear of the characters. Many horror movies, especially early ones, have many inspirations from Myths and Folklore, like vampires and werewolves. Horror movies also have many tropes in them. Tropes such as characters splitting up or found fortage. These movies also a lot of the time have twist endings. I find many horror movies have alot of information hidden from the viewer. Horror movies use people’s fears to get deeper reactions out of the viewers like the fear of the unknown or even simpler fears such as clowns. The use of slow building music is used to create suspense and anticipation. To make a good horror movie is needing a good understanding of many different film techniques and putting them to use just right to get the right reaction out of the watcher.
2. Throughout The Silence of the Lamb I noticed especially in the beginning there are a lot of static scenes. I believe this is because the acting in this show is a key highlight and a static scene is the perfect way to display an actor’s acting. There was also a scene near the end as Jodie Foster’s character was investigating her lead and making a house visit as Scott Glen’s character was going after another house believing that was the killer’s house. I was able to guess that they had it wrong right before everything was revealed. This made me wonder what techniques gave it away. They used a few smash cuts from the quiet of the outside of the house the FBI were getting ready to go into and the contrasting chaos and panic of inside Ted Levine’s House. I think this contrast was used to show the extremes of panic but it also made me feel something was wrong with the quiet house.
The importance of the build up to Anthonys Hopkins escape was well done as well the push in on his face while looking at the pen.To the airport scene where Anthony Heald couldn’t find his pen. I also found it interesting the constant men in the background checking out or hitting on Foster. I think it brought more vulnerability to women and added more uncomfortable feelings to this movie.
3. Although I don’t believe the scene I chose is the moment of change for the plot. The moment I chose was an important reveal of Foster’s mental state and reason for doing what she’s doing. Hopkins is analyzing her and reveals to her that she’s still just the little girl trying to save the screaming lambs. This all leads to Foster saving the girl from being killed and finally being able to save her “lamb”. The conversation was a beautiful way to fit a backstory and character development into the movie.
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