One of the first things that stood out to me in this scene is the lack of music at the beginning when Jake is in the lab where the doctors are checking his motor skills and vitals. This seemed strange to me because most of the movie is filled with some sort of background music and in the first part of this clip there is pretty much nothing. The lack of music, however, makes it feel more real to me. In reality, there is not music playing all the time warning us of whats to come, so that lack of music allows us to place ourselves in Jakes world. Another thing that caught my attention is how the picture on the screen becomes very very blurry at the start of this scene and than gradually clears up so that we can see the doctors faces. At the same time that the picture clears, the audio starts to echo as one of the doctors says "Jake." Both of these things allow us to see the world from Jake's perspective and really help to create that reality feeling. I think everyone has woken up in the morning and slowly opened there eyes (blurry to clear). Next we hear the slow in and out of a Jake breathing and I find myself breathing to the same tempo as him bringing me into this reality of a world even more.
Breathing is something that comes up once again in this scene. As Jake is running the suspense is building, the music gets louder, and his breathing gets heavier. Our breathing as viewers is probably getting heavier as well because we are feeling the suspense. We are putting ourselves in this world as Jake. Therefore, as the movie carries on, we can feel many strong emotions because the world is no longer just some crazy made up place, it’s become a place that we can relate to and be a part of.
This was a great observation! I noticed that they have this breathing technique happen a few times throughout the film, almost as if to slow the world down around us (the audience) along with the intensity of the story and focus back on just one character. In the scene that I analyzed, Neytiri was flying off a cliff on top of a dragon and the music stopped just as she took off and all we could hear was her breathing. It seems like the points that do not have any music can be just as important as the areas of the movie that do contain the intense, dramatic music. When the sound switches from loud to just breathing, it is almost more noticeable and emotional because we have to provide the emotions that we are feeling instead of the music providing our emotions for us as a typical melodrama will do.
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