What Is The Mood Of The Movie Gravity?

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Furthermore, the sounds affect in this movie really helped carry out the plot of the film. Most famous scene in the film, where we see such action occur, is the opening scene. As the film title appears in the screen, an ear-splitting wall of sound rises in volume quick and steady: once it reaches its most unbearable point it stops, with the sound of silence. With such an edit, the contrast of noises, the silence comes to feel as a loud noise as well. We here the vast emptiness of outer space. David Deny says, “The quiet registers on our emotions with greater violence…... silence is not only the sound of chilly outer space; it’s the stillness of death, whose easeful allure beckons from the opening sequence to the last.” Agreeing with David Deny, this introduction really grasped the audience emotions. …show more content…
Alfonso, director of the movie, is famously known for his long, uninterrupted tracking shots and “Gravity” was no different. Unlike many other science-fiction movies, “Gravity” had photo-realistic scenes, none of it was fantasy. The imagery that we see in “Gravity” is no less out of the ordinary, detailed sunsets and rotation of the earth was involved as well as great look alike NASA space objects/ships. In David Deny’s article, barely touched the visual effects only mentioning, “In this movie, the tempo goes from dreamy, drifting slowness, with Earth glowing in the darkness…... Cuarón and his team created the movie with a combination of C.G.I. and computer animation and a variety of new lighting and photography techniques…. This one produced a wild ride that may not be equaled for a long time.” Although I agree with David Deny, he did not talk much about the great cinematography in this

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