Suspense

get that? The lighting in this scene has the usual hitchcockian shadowing that is reminiscent to film noir. The lighter lands in the light giving the audience more hope that Bruno has a chance of actually retrieving it. In the next shot the point of view is switched to first person. The camera turns into Guy’s opposition serving the tennis ball back and forth. Giving the audience another push to root for Bruno. The shots are giving subliminal perspective that they are supposed to be against Guy. This also adds to the suspense with all of the adds stacking against Guy considering the camera is giving an illusion that even the audience is against him. The announcer screams “Just one point between Haines and the match!” and the camera pans rapidly between Guy and his opposition. We get an update on Bruno and his ever elastic arm still reaching for the lighter. Quick cuts are made with every thunderous thud produced by the rackets. This is one of the peaks of suspense in the film only to be rivaled with the carousel and murder scenes. We come to the conclusion of Bruno, or his superhero pseudonym Mr. Fantastic, finally finagling the lighter with his two fingers and bringing it up to the surface. The camera also rises to the surface to show that the crowd has…

Hitchcock believed in using humor and irony to build a storyline and add suspense. Perhaps by finishing the film with him still confined in his wheelchair gave Hitchcock the upper hand. He believed movies were meant to be fun for the audience and this idea of the hero reverting back to the scenario he was stuck in at the beginning could be seen as a final act to tease the audience. Hitchcock is a stickler for minute and significant details that seem to unite cinematic aspects of his films with…

controlled by my desire for the paper to achieve its goal in the mind of the reader. Format is how I make my writing more than the sum of its parts. For example, in my piece, The Art of Suspense, I inform the reader how Alfred Hitchcock created suspense in his movies. In a jumbled order, the topics I cover are as follows: empathy with fictional characters, cinematic language of suspense, why people enjoy suspense, introductory plot elements in Hitchcock films, the psychological impact of…

Relationshipis the bondage in which the Indian society prevails. Githa Hariharan being an Indian women writer has written many novels and short stories. In all her novels she deals with the theme of social, political issues. She also deals with problems faced by women in Indian society. One another theme is relationship. In all her novels, she deals with some kind of relationship. In the novel The Ghosts of Vasu Master Hariharan deals with the relationship between a teacher and a student. She…

In the poem The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe, the mood he creates is suspense {{suspenseful}}. Poe creates this mood by using the setting, sound effects, and diction. Poe uses these 3 literary terms all throughout the poem. Using these 3 terms has me wondering "what's next?". as i {{I}} read. To begin with, Poe creates suspense in the play, but one of the ways he creates this mood is the setting and time. He states that it's dark at midnight, stating this early in the poem already gives off a…

Authors often provoke a sense of suspense in readers by slowly foreshadowing future events but still holding back sufficient information for readers to become anxious to discover the fate of characters in a story. This can no better be demonstrated than in Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Pedestrian”. In the book, the setting takes place at a desolate town, the streets totally deserted and barren but for a single solitary man walking among the multitude of silent houses. The man, Leonard Mead, is…

Short stories that depict suspense draw the readers in and bring anxiety along with suspension into the story. Authors use literary elements to represent the idea that they are trying to point out. In the short story “The Landlady,” by Roald Dahl, Billy Weaver, a young 17 year old man, came across a boarding house named “Bed and Breakfast,” but he didn’t know that it would lead to his death. Although, in the short story by Edgar Allan Poe, "A Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator kills an old man…

towns, cities, and countries,it most importantly it destroys people. In this story, a lone sniper fights for what he believes in. The sniper is shown struggling as he fights to escape the enemy's sniper. In the short story,"The Sniper," Liam O'Flaherty uses setting, imagery, and pacing to create a feeling of suspense for the reader. The setting of the story is suspenseful because of its ominous and mysterious description. O’Flaherty uses diction in order to portray the suspeIn the story the…

Suspenseful stories can be impossible to put down, and keep readers wanting more. Suspense is a feeling of excitement or anxiety about what may happen, which makes readers want to keep reading until they find the answer. This works especially well when writing fiction. A fictional story forms the basis for a better suspense story than a nonfiction account because it creates anticipation, and can add any danger or hardships in the story to create more suspense. One reason fiction is a better…

Frankenstein’s creature makes us want to like him and trust him but as time goes on it reveals reason why he commits the crimes that he does. It shows us that we often make our own problems and fears. All horror things involve elements to make it a real horror such as music, lighting effects, camera angles and suspense that adds up to the big scare that the director aims for. In the movie Frankenstein, Mary Shelly uses fear, surprise and suspense. Only elements missing are mystery and spoiler.…