2/28/2024 0 Comments Breaking quiet pt 3![]() It's a symbol of escape and we begin to sense that maybe rocketships (and outer space) have something to do with what's happening back on Earth. This provides the film with an occasional viewpoint for its sound design, as whenever Reagan is the focus, the "loud hum" she hears will overpower the rest of the noise in the scene. In the moments before Beau walks up with the rocket toy (which begins the clip below), we've already seen him drawing a rocket, and this provides context to what would otherwise be a contextless obsession with a noisy toy. ![]() When we cut inside of the mostly looted pharmacy and meet the family, another key story point is established: the oldest daughter is hearing impaired. The event was catastrophic and destructive, yet no one has tried to rebuild, and by the evidence of abandoned cars on the street, there wasn't time to get away. The first two shots, a close-up of a downed traffic light in the middle of the street and a longer view of a deserted town, provide some context. This, of course, sets up a question: what happened? ![]() The movie works inside of negative sonic space to play up the fact that when you can't make a sound, everything sounds like a bomb. In the below video from Thomas Flight, the film's opening minutes are broken down, showing how these two scenes set up the film that will follow while simultaneously building suspense and ratcheting up the stakes.Īs Thomas notes, the film begins with a title card ("Day 89") that has become, in his words, "almost a trope in apocalypse films, so even the mere use of it here gives the audience some information," i.e., something bad went down a little less than three months ago. Audiences are accustomed to loud, extravagantly sound-designed sci-fi and horror films, and while the sound in A Quiet Place is no less intricate for being quiet, its use of silence makes it devilishly subtle. One of 2018's breakout hits, John Krasinski's A Quiet Placeis a tense and clever film that uses one of the key elements of filmmaking (in order to survive an invasion of aliens with ridiculously good hearing, a family must maintain almost total silence) as a central plot device.
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