The Finest Hours Mood

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In the movie The Finest Hours the sound aesthetic energy and mood is present during the rescuing of the shipmen. The back half of the SS Pendleton has just been found by the coastguard. The three men from the coastguard are looking up at the ship when the men on the ship begin to jump off into the water to get to the rescue boat. Up until this point the music had been slow and the tempo unchanging as both the men on the ship and the coastguard had been waiting to meet each other. As the men begin to jump into the water the tempo of the music begins to pick up and get louder as the coastguard scramble to pull the men from the waves. The music matches the energy and mood of the scene as it creates a sense of urgency. If the music had remained

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