Thursday, October 3, 2013

Seconds, The Surgery.

The first scene of surgery when Arthur becomes Tony was, in my opinion, pretty advanced for its time, even though there was no blood or faceless body such as in Face Off but to some that could have been a very hard thing to watch during the time period. It was full of close ups on different parts of the body that would be receiving alterations as well as, on the plans that compared the old Arthur to the new Tony. The close ups on the various body parts made us understand the gravity of the process that was about to be done to Arthur, he was able to be completely transformed into the drawing on the paper next to the surgery team. It was as if someone was going to be creating their masterpiece with the fine attention to detail in both the drawing and the way the surgery was performed, meticulous and careful. This was a statement to art at the time, how it had become a craft of sophisticated tools rather than genuine creativity, Arthur's new body was planned and executed to the tee and though he became a work of art it was not genuinely inspired by anything except the Company's order to fill.  The music during the scene also set the mood for the scene, it made us feel on edge and suspenseful because this scene was crucial to the rest of the film, it had to be believable or the whole premise of the plot goes for nothing. As I said before this scene was probably the most important in the entire film so to really draw your audience in the music had to be something that was not totally scary but something that was just enticing enough to make sure they didn't want to look away.


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