Naomi's 'Brighton Rock' analysis

Brighton Rock
(own thriller film clip)

 

 

In the beginning of Brighton Rock, the viewer’s hear the ambience sound, with many non-diegetic sounds, which could have been used to scare the audience to let them know this, is a thriller film and because the scene is set at the sea you ghostly fog creates a dark mood for the audience.  There are no characters, fog horns and the faint sound of water running this makes the viewer feel like they are alone and vulnerable.

In the next shot, there is a ringing phone; the room which it is in doesn’t look like anyone takes care of it very much and it is now very run down and almost has a look of it being abandoned, although the ringing of the phone shows us that someone obviously does live here. The sound of the phone gets louder as we get closer to it. In the next shot the viewer sees a close up shot of a man in a phone box, he is breathing rather quite heavily, this could show that he has been running and that he really need to talk to someone quickly; but the viewer can clarify this when the diegetic dialogue says “come on!” “Pick up the phone” ,“get off the fucking sofa”

 

We next hear him say “I need the boys round here”, we next see through an extreme long shot  two figures appear from the fog in the far distance running , the fog is used to create mystery throughout the scene as we don’t know what’s coming next. The man in the phone box then sees the two figures of men and starts to run; this implies that they are in fact the danger which he needs escape from. After a cut see another man pulling out a knife or blade of some kind.

Then man who is on the run then pulls out his own blade or knife, and starts waving about with it shown in an meduim long shot, the man starts to throw his hat and take off his coat, this implies that he is ready to fight and it trying to distract each person who is after them, but I think the audience realises that he isnt going to get very far by himself and almost wishes someone would come and save him, from the horror hes in. the dark lighing makes it hard to see who the man is actually fighting and this once again creates mystery and an thriller type of film.