The Capture Scene In Noyce's Of Mice And Men

The capture scene is presented very cleverly to communicate Noyce's point of view to the audience and shows the emotional hardship faced by Molly and her family. the medium shot gives the happy and peaceful view of Gracie, and Daisy playing, but the view is not supported by the diegetic sound of wind which gives a thrilling feeling and foreshadows that something drastic is going to happen. The start of traumatised events is accompanied with a diegetic sound and a medium shot of camel, which fades into vehicle's sound. Though there are less dialogues, the tracking shot showing the running of girls, the closing up on mother's faces and the children while they are running, The looking back of Molly again and again to view the distance between her and Mr Riggs, shows a lot of emotions flooding in through the scene, which shares the pain and the fear which was gone through Molly and her

Visualization connects audience more to the character, this is the reason director chose few dialogues, the only two important dialogues spoken which summariesed the whole scene was Molly's mother saying " No, there are my children" and Mr Riggs saying " I have the court orders!" and " Nothing you can do about it! " to Molly's family. To make the scene more intense both non-diegetic and diegetic sound was used, which were the fast rhythmic beat, which went faster as the scene grew more intense, and the screaming and crying of Molly and her Family which made the scene very intense and had put a powerful impact on the audience. The mirror symbolised the distance which would become a barrier between Molly and her mother, and would be the greatest emotional hardship faced by Molly through her whole