"The Breakfast Club", released in 1985
and starring Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael
Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, and Ally Sheedy is about five high school
students forced to spend their Saturday afternoon together in detention.
This movie happens to be one of my favorite movies of all
time and everytime I watch it my favorite scene continues to be the smoking
scene. It wasn't until this blog assignment that I realized this scene is also
a perfect example of the relationship between sound and image. The scene
begins with fixed shots on each of the kids as they take hits of the joint. The
fixed shots of each of the character allows the audience to watch the character
without much effort which is matched by relaxing music. However, the end of the
scene is fast paced and as the viewer’s eyes are scanning the screen to follow
Emilio Estevez as he quickly runs and dances around the library, the viewer is
also listening to a fast paced score that is completely opposite of what he or
she just heard earlier in the scene.
The scene concludes with Emilio Estevez letting out this
powerful scream that ultimately shatters the glass door. The scream is paired
with intricate and loud drum solo in the song. The music and the scream work
together to create the impression that both were so intense that the two caused
this glass door to shatter. The fixed shots of the students getting high to
relaxing music and the constantly moving shots of Emilio Estevez dancing to
fast paced music concluding with the shattered glass door are all examples of
an existing image-sound relationship in this movie.
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