The Assassination of the Duke de Guise

Absolute snoozefest

Absolute snoozefest

The Assassination of the Duc de Guise may seem static now, but at the time, its photography and staging broke new ground. First of all, the camera is at waist height instead of the typical shoulder height. Then, for the first time, some of the actors turned their back to the camera.

The Assassination of the Duc de Guise may seem static now, but at the time, its photography and staging broke new ground. First of all, the camera is at waist height instead of the typical shoulder height. Then, for the first time, some of the actors turned their back to the camera.

SAINT-SAËNS!!

I‘m studying film music for school and in my workbook there‘s some examples for film music. I love both film and music so i thought i would watch them all and write a bit about them :)

**-spoilers ahead but this is over 100 years old and a historical event so who cares-
**
The film was scored by Camille Saint-Saëns, a well known classical composer from the late romantic era, with orchestral music.
Even though this came out right at the beginning of cinema, it was already scored so well. Of course the score can‘t be as nuanced as scores are today because back then, people neither had the knowlegde nor the gear that we have today but saint-saëns still managed to score the different scenes so well. 
Here‘s a few examples:
- I really liked the aural difference between the duke and his wife when they‘re talking. The wife tries to warn him and doesn‘t want him to go to the king because he‘s trying to kill the duke. The duke still wants to go against his wifes will. When the wife is talking, the music is really melodic and light, when the duke is talking the music becomes very dramatic and willful.

- the king plans the duke‘s murder. The music starts really cautious and mysterious and becomes more and more confident as the scene progresses

- the king and the congress members (?) realize that they have to hide the dukes body. As they realize the music get‘s really hectic and dramatic until they got rid of the body

These are just a few of many great examples of how well saint-saëns managed to capture the feelings of this film. Now of course saint-saëns is an incredible composer but because a lot of the time, music wasn‘t written for a film but rather just for some underlying sound in the silent film era, this is something that you don‘t hear that often in films that are that old. 

Really interesting :)

SAINT-SAËNS!!

I‘m studying film music for school and in my workbook there‘s some examples for film music. I love both film and music so i thought i would watch them all and write a bit about them :)

**-spoilers ahead but this is over 100 years old and a historical event so who cares-
**
The film was scored by Camille Saint-Saëns, a well known classical composer from the late romantic era, with orchestral music.
Even though this came out right at the beginning of cinema, it was already scored so well. Of course the score can‘t be as nuanced as scores are today because back then, people neither had the knowlegde nor the gear that we have today but saint-saëns still managed to score the different scenes so well. 
Here‘s a few examples:
- I really liked the aural difference between the duke and his wife when they‘re talking. The wife tries to warn him and doesn‘t want him to go to the king because he‘s trying to kill the duke. The duke still wants to go against his wifes will. When the wife is talking, the music is really melodic and light, when the duke is talking the music becomes very dramatic and willful.

- the king plans the duke‘s murder. The music starts really cautious and mysterious and becomes more and more confident as the scene progresses

- the king and the congress members (?) realize that they have to hide the dukes body. As they realize the music get‘s really hectic and dramatic until they got rid of the body

These are just a few of many great examples of how well saint-saëns managed to capture the feelings of this film. Now of course saint-saëns is an incredible composer but because a lot of the time, music wasn‘t written for a film but rather just for some underlying sound in the silent film era, this is something that you don‘t hear that often in films that are that old. 

Really interesting :)

Camille Saint-Saëns qui cook comme jamais pour cette dernière minute en fond noir

Camille Saint-Saëns qui cook comme jamais pour cette dernière minute en fond noir

boring 👎🏼

4/10

boring 👎🏼

4/10