The slasher film Psycho used every film technique to intensify the viewing experience. Alfred Hitchcock, the film's director, especially used irony to manipulate the audience. One example of irony that Hitchcock used in this film is how we know what happened to Marion Crane after she went missing. We know that she was murdered in the shower at the Bates Motel and was thrown in the pond. We know where the $40,000 dollars she stole went. This type of irony is dramatic irony, or the irony that we the audience knows something that the character in the movie or story doesn't know.
Hitchcock's use of dramatic irony affected the audience pretty well. The audience knows the whereabouts of Marion Crane and what goes on at the Bates Motel. Since the audience knows that, when a character goes to the Bates Motel, the audience immediately becomes worried or predicts that something bad is going to happen to that character. They expect something to happen to them in every corner of the motel. The audience begins to become aware of everything at the hotel, like every door has the killer behind it.
Thursday, November 19, 2015
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Response #5: Film/(story?) Analysis
***I rarely ever watch horror films (I've probably only seen three) but when I do they normally turn out to be not scary, so I'm writing about a story I read
The scariest story I have read is probably a creepypasta (internet horror story) called "Squidward's Suicide." This story strikes to me as interesting because there are no jump-scares and there are a little bit of elements that go into normal horror films. "Squidward's Suicide" tells of an unreleased Spongebob Squarepants tape that has a lot of subliminal and dark messages within. The story is written in unflinching realism, like this can actually happen (I actually thought it was real at first!). The fact that it was written in the first person point of view makes it a lot more intimate, like the author is actually telling you what happened. The suspense the author put into this story is like a hook, it grabs you and makes you want to know more about the messed up intentions of the maker of the tape. The author also describes some scenes in a very gory way, like in one part where embedded in the tape there are single frames that contain pictures of dead children. He describes one of the children as being "mangled and bloodied, one eye dangling over his upturned face, popped. He was naked down to his underwear, his stomach crudely cut open and his entrails laying beside him. He was laying on some pavement that was probably a road." The title of this story comes from the "unreleased" episode itself, which shows one of the characters, Squidward, as being fed up with all the hate for his clarinet playing and decides to commit suicide. Squidward then"puts the gun in his mouth and pulls the trigger. Realistic blood and brain matter splatters the wall behind him, and his bed, and he flies back with the force. The last 5 seconds of this episode show his body on the bed, on his side, one eye dangling on what's left of his head above the floor, staring blankly at it." The imagery in this story is the main part that makes it scary. The author also describes the reactions of his colleagues watching the film in the Nickelodeon Studios as vomiting and having horrible nightmares. This story surely did make me feel scared.
The scariest story I have read is probably a creepypasta (internet horror story) called "Squidward's Suicide." This story strikes to me as interesting because there are no jump-scares and there are a little bit of elements that go into normal horror films. "Squidward's Suicide" tells of an unreleased Spongebob Squarepants tape that has a lot of subliminal and dark messages within. The story is written in unflinching realism, like this can actually happen (I actually thought it was real at first!). The fact that it was written in the first person point of view makes it a lot more intimate, like the author is actually telling you what happened. The suspense the author put into this story is like a hook, it grabs you and makes you want to know more about the messed up intentions of the maker of the tape. The author also describes some scenes in a very gory way, like in one part where embedded in the tape there are single frames that contain pictures of dead children. He describes one of the children as being "mangled and bloodied, one eye dangling over his upturned face, popped. He was naked down to his underwear, his stomach crudely cut open and his entrails laying beside him. He was laying on some pavement that was probably a road." The title of this story comes from the "unreleased" episode itself, which shows one of the characters, Squidward, as being fed up with all the hate for his clarinet playing and decides to commit suicide. Squidward then"puts the gun in his mouth and pulls the trigger. Realistic blood and brain matter splatters the wall behind him, and his bed, and he flies back with the force. The last 5 seconds of this episode show his body on the bed, on his side, one eye dangling on what's left of his head above the floor, staring blankly at it." The imagery in this story is the main part that makes it scary. The author also describes the reactions of his colleagues watching the film in the Nickelodeon Studios as vomiting and having horrible nightmares. This story surely did make me feel scared.
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