Ethos Pathos And Logos In Movies

Let it go. That is what a lot characters in films have to do when losing loved ones. Death scenes are common in many types of films. This paper will rhetorically analyze and compare the director’s choices of film elements appeal to their audience’s ethos, pathos, and logos in Frozen (2013) and The Snow Queen (2012). One scene where the directors make some similar yet also very different choices in film elements is the scene where both of the sibling’s parents die. Another scene that is a good scene to compare and contrast film elements is the scene where one character helps save and unfreeze another character. Directors Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck of Frozen have the intended audience of children, parents of children, family movie watchers,

This affects a majority of the audience’s pathos because it creates a sense of uncertainty about what is going to happen. As the scene progresses, the music begins to get very quiet in order to allow the panic and severity of the situation to settle down. When the music picks up one last time in the scene, it strangely changes in Describe the sound sound. While the string instruments are still the same, there are no more distinct separate beats, and the music sounds a bit more cheery even though the parents are in the process of being frozen and dying. The director’s choice in choosing the positive music is baffling. The background music of this part of the scene is not as successful in affecting pathos and logos as it was in the beginning of the scene because the audience will be confused as to why the music sounds more cheery when the parents have just died. With the very last few seconds of the scene, the music is sharply cut off. This could also be seen as slightly ineffective because it throws the audience off track when the music just suddenly and abruptly stops Is there meaning behind the sudden drop in music? If so, go into more detail. In the movie Frozen, Lee and Buck make sure that music is just as big of a focus for their audience (1:45-2:16). It starts off differently because the instrumentals include both strings and a piano, but also the overall sound is more upbeat. Also, compared

For example, Barbe and Sveshnikov use a lot more dialogue throughout the portrayal of the death of the parents than Lee and Buck. As the parents are in the process of being killed, the director decides to add dialogue in the middle of the situation. The dialogue is from the father (Master Vegard) speaking to his wife about how their love for each other will forever stand (2:30-2:36). This can appeal towards the feminist audience because it shows that the man isn’t in power as he usually is in films. “As sociological analysis would indicate, the male characters hold the powerful positions [...]” (Fischer 30). For the audience of children, this effectively appeals to their pathos because for some children, the love-filled dialogue may lighten up the situation (death) that is about to occur. While this is appealing to the younger audience, for the other part of the audience that is older, it is not quite as powerful because the dialogue takes away from the seriousness and heaviness of the situation. This was done very oppositely by Lee and Buck. There was absolutely no dialogue the few seconds leading up to the parents death all the way through the few frames right after the actual death (1:56-2:13). This is extremely effective especially for appealing to older audiences pathos and logos. It causes the audience to focus on aspects other than