Task 2: Moving Image Soundtrack report

Task 2: Moving Image Soundtrack report

 For this task we had to chose two of our favourite scenes and analysing them for my two scenes I chose firstly a scene from a film called "Leon" starting "Jean Reno" as an assassin who lives in a flat next door to a family whom father sells drugs and has just ripped off a dirty cops run by one dirty cop in particular who is played by "Gary Oldman" who gives the best performance of his carrer, on finding out of being ripped off Stan (Oldman) goes on a rampage and kills the whole family expect for his youngest daughter played by the young "Nataile Portman" who then finds comfort in the next door neighbour (Reno). They become close and she asks him to either kill the people who killed her family or too teach her to clean (Kill) this leads on a beautiful relationship of young love and a role model that she never has had in her life until now. 

The Scene I have chosen is in which Stan (Oldman) has found them and has sent every single police office/swat team after them in one building and shows Leon (Reno) trying to help Mathhilda (Portman) escape before they both get killed and this is one of the most intense beautiful scenes I have ever seen I feel like they do this really well in a number of different ways.

Firstly the music throughout the scene is very dramatic in a orcnestcal way and it gets louder and more intense as he tries to find a way out as fast as possible while showing out of the room full of a swat team with a bomb and why he has to hurry, you as an audience start feel what he is feeling and then that moment of Leon (Reno) and Mathhilda (Portman) have that moment of never seeing each other again is very beautiful but the tense music is still in the background, I feel this is there to make the audience feel sad and see the beauty of there love but also not too feel tense still and it builds it up so well until the final scream from Leon (two minutes and fifty seconds in) and then get to black is such a good way of showing the mode of this scene. 

Secondly the director/writer (Luc Besson) chose not too use much dialogue throughout the scene except on the scene of when Mathhilda leaves down a hole in the wall and the share there love for each other, I feel him leaving the most of the dialogue for that part really does give the audience the mode/feeling of true love in this scene (From one minute thirty two seconds) this is the start of the how the director wants to you connect with these two characters (then two minutes and twenty six seconds in is where the dialogue) and again on how they are feeling, with his facially expressions he knows he will never see her again i feel this is another way the director (Besson) brings beauty not too just this scene but the film.