Film and media - Casino Royale

Thèmes abordés

Diegetic sound, audio-visual contract

Résumé du document

The essay evaluates how the film Casino Royale (2006) makes use of sound and effects to develop the film's characters, events and plot.

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[...] " (Casino Royale). Following this, the audience hears Bond reply to Dryden's question with the word "two" and then Bond fires a gunshot at Dryden (Casino Royale). It could be argued that these diegetic sounds are obvious sounds which enable the audience to identify with the nature of Bond's character as it is clear from the dialogue and gunshot sounds that Bond is on his second assignment as a `double secret agent to kill Dryden to earn his license to kill (Beck and Grajeda, 2008). [...]

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[...] For example, during scene ten Bond is handcuffed by police officers and we can hear the background noise of police sirens but we are unable to see the police car (Casino Royale). This shows that by not seeing an image but hearing a sound that is attached to that image the film can add an element of chaos and apprehension as the audience are unaware of where it is coming from or coming to (Altman, 1992). The use of commutative asynchronous sound has the innate ability to create emotional nuances and meaning for the audience through detached sounds and images as a pose to sounds being linked in parallel to their associated visual images (Beck and Grajeda, 2008: p275). [...]

[...] Dir Martin Campbell. Perf. Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Judi Dench Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer DVD. Chion, M. (1999) "The voice in cinema", http://users.clas.ufl.edu/burt/chion_voice_in_cinema. pdf [Accessed on 28.12.2016]. Chion, M. [...]

[...] This delivery of sound from the outset creates an uneasy atmosphere for the audience as they watch uncertain of what Dryden's fate will be (Casino Royale and Altman, 1992). Evidently, this associates with Chion's audio-visual contract theory (1990) whereby Chion believes that sound can bypass and surprise the audience by merging sound and image together on screen as a way of altering an audiences' viewing perception (Chion 1990 cited in Chion and Murch, 1994: p 4). Casino Royale (2006) has simultaneously aligned the sounds of string instruments and on screen footsteps to create a highly suspenseful atmosphere, Chion believed the use of music with image to be added value to the audio-visual contract (Chion and Murch, 1994: p6). [...]