Less is sometimes so much more.
Before the advent of sound in the movies, silence was an obstacle to storytelling, it was a thing to be covered, interrupted, and worked around. Once sound came along, though, it changed the nature of the relationship between silence and storytelling, taking a once-ubiquitous element and transforming it into something far more meaningful. Silence now was not a necessity, it was a decision, a choice to relay information a certain way, unspoken, or at least unheard by those of us in the audience. In modern cinema, the most blatant example of silence as a storytelling booster can be found at the very end of Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, when Bill Murray’s character whispers some mysterious goodbye to Scarlett Johansson’s after their platonic but emotional courtship.
Silence can convey things, thoughts, and emotions words never could, and as such a properly utilized bit of cinematic silence can lead...
Before the advent of sound in the movies, silence was an obstacle to storytelling, it was a thing to be covered, interrupted, and worked around. Once sound came along, though, it changed the nature of the relationship between silence and storytelling, taking a once-ubiquitous element and transforming it into something far more meaningful. Silence now was not a necessity, it was a decision, a choice to relay information a certain way, unspoken, or at least unheard by those of us in the audience. In modern cinema, the most blatant example of silence as a storytelling booster can be found at the very end of Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, when Bill Murray’s character whispers some mysterious goodbye to Scarlett Johansson’s after their platonic but emotional courtship.
Silence can convey things, thoughts, and emotions words never could, and as such a properly utilized bit of cinematic silence can lead...
- 4/25/2017
- by H. Perry Horton
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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