The movie High Noon is an interesting movie even
though it was in black and white. The
movie is about a man, William Kane, who is the sheriff of a small town and when
he was going to retire to move away with his new wife he hears about a guy who
is coming to town who is not a good guy.
So he decides to stay in town in order to protect his town. His wife says that she will not wait to see
if she will be a widow so she gets a train ticket headed out of town. When the train gets into town and Frank
Miller, the bad guy, gets off the train he is after Kane because he is the one
who put him in jail. Kane tries to round
up townspeople to help him defend his town but with little success, no one
wants to fight or risk dying. When
Miller gets into town a fight rages, guns drawn and shots ring through the town
as Kane’s new wife, Amy Fowler, runs through the city trying to see if her
husband was still alive. Kane takes down
Miller’s posse and eventually takes down Miller in the middle of the
street.
In
High Noon there are a few key aspects that stuck out to me, they included the
acting, the lighting, and the music played.
These three aspects help make up for the movie being in black and white. Without these strong aspects in the movie it
would not have been as good because the black and white would have been
distracting. I thought that the director
did a good job of convincing the audience, me, that the plot was real and
possible. When we think of westerns we
picture what would happen in this movie, an antagonist comes to town to seek
revenge and a battle surges ending with the protagonist prevailing.
The
acting was great in my opinion. Every
character did their job in order to bring the film together. Kane defending his city with his emotions
focused on bringing security to the town.
His wife with her anger towards her husband for deciding to stay in town
to risk his life. When Kane went around searching for help to fight against
Miller and everyone turned him down they all seemed to have a look of fright on
their face and even in their voice. When
Kane goes to the church to get help and the preacher says that he doesn’t want
to send his people out to fight he sees very concerned for the wellbeing of
them but there is also a sense of worry about what is coming in the
future. All of the actors did their job
well to convince me and make me believe the actors were real.
The
next aspect is the lighting, when a movie is in black and white it is hard to
keep the lighting right in order to be sure that everything can be seen by the
viewer. Along with that, since most of
the movie was shot outside with the bright light, the director had to make sure
that the contrast was right so that there wasn’t too much glare. The movie was shot well enough so that I
could clearly distinguish what was going on and who was doing what. In the scene where Miller is holding Kane’s
wife hostage and they were out in the street, it was a little bright making it
harder to see the action but it wasn’t enough to make the lighting poor.
The
last aspect is the music that was played during the film. Music is a very important part to a movie because,
even if we don’t realize it, sound plays a huge role in bringing the piece
together. Without sound it can be hard
to make the scenes dramatic and make the viewers feel the suspense in the
movie. I thought that the music played
in the movie was good for the scenes.
When there was action going on they used drastic differences in volume
and types of sound in order to heighten the suspense and make the viewers
wonder what is next to come.
Overall I thought that High Noon was well put
together and a very interesting film. The
fact that if was in black and white had no effect on how I viewed the movie because
the key components were strong enough to keep my attention.
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