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Thankfully Bapu had warned that it was REALLY loud, and he wasn't kidding. ...
After watching NINE a few months ago, my ears rang for the rest of the night. I can't believe movies are now consistantly louder than rock clubs...
This actually started about the time of Star Wars at the Cinerama Dome, and it may have been the place where it all started with 2001, A Space Odyssey, where the music was the film, just about! ... they started by putting speakers under your butt ... chair actually ... and then later decided to add other speakers in other spots that got your attention ... so there would be one on the side that picked up one voice ... and then other things. I mean ... hearing Dave talk from outside, and the speaker was not inside the theater, like in the halls or something, made for a completely different effect that you can not get by just having it all in front of you off a speaker! Yeah, all of a sudden Hal 9000 is not just a jerk or ... whatever! ... he's a lot more!
By the time I caught SW the second time, they had gotten rid of the side speakers, but the ones under your butt were bigger and LOUDER! And the rumbles and the whooshes and the sound effects, really took you for a ride -- in front of a massively huge screen too!
Since then, there have been a lot of movies with over rated sound effects that were trying to get people's attention by doing something really simple, that ... grabs you ... if you are not prepared for it.
The best of all of these, btw, is a French Film that is really harsh and totally seen from the inside of the guy's mind non-stop, and the film never stops and in the end you sit here and go ... this is either incredible, or this is just abuse! But, one of the things it had, that was totally insane was a shotgun going off out of the blue and it was loud, you never saw it, and might or might not have anything to do with the film. The effect was so disconcerting and scary that some people started walking off due to the discomfort of watching something that disjointed and abused your senses so hard. The film? Je Suis Seul by Gaspar Noe (I Stant Alone is the Englilsh title) and the film is the most anti establishment dark uncompromisingly insane thing you could ever catch or see. And don't go see "Irreversible" if you don't have the courage to watch totally insane revolutionary film making and experimenting and absolutely amazing stuff ... it's not for everybody!
In general, I end up walking out of those films, because many of them are trying to get your attention away from the rest of the film, which is generally poorly defined and not that good in the first place! The Noe films are really well thought out despite the insane violence of the shooting styles and visuals.
There are others that also do this in Hollywood, and Mr. Mission Impossible is one of them! It makes the film seem more important and sometimes you can identify with the specific moments better because the sound and effect is so familiar to you!
One of the first people in film to do this, btw, was Roman Polanski! However, in almost all cases it was used for violent moments and scenery in many of his films, some scenes of which are widely remembered in the story and history of film. He also coupled this with a hand held camera to add a bigger effect to the moment.
post edited by Moshkiae - 2010/07/29 21:52:08