The Third Man Film Analysis

Nowadays movies are not the same as they used to be years ago in terms of pure dedication, the pure portrayal of acting, amazing setting and casting of actors. Today, more movies are made with computer animation, graphic sounds, and settings, which is mostly generated via a computer. The Third Man is a movie with pure dedication, amazing setting, and better casting which did acting like as if they were performing it in real life. Camera angles were used to purely capture the scene and the cast for a better picture in the end. The setting and sound also contributed towards this because they both further follow the scene’s mise en scene criteria. The Third Man has unique jester as it starts; it is narrated by Joseph Cotton and Carol Reed. It

In The Third Man, Reed used various camera angles to illustrate signs and represent many situations in scenes. In The Third Man, Roger Ebert talks about camera angles he says that “More shots, I suspect, are tilted than are held straight; they suggest the world out of joint” (Ebert par.5). According to him camera angles which are tilted created more sense and make movie unique to watch. Reed used titled angle in the scene where Martins goes to visit Anna at her apartment. He used two types of angles straight and tilted angle straight are used to represent Anna and tilted is to represent Martins who is drunk. Tilted angle show how drunk people see when they are drunk at the present movement Martins is drunk so whenever he speaks camera is tilted and when Anna speaks camera is straight. The second scene is when Martins is in a car with the driver who drives like a lunatic it shows all the angles from outside, driver’s view, and Martins view. The third scene is from the Ferris wheel where Harry opens the window and shows Martins how people look from the top. This camera angle represents that Harry is trying is explain that he will always stay on the top and people beneath him will always stay small. So camera angles do create some signs which director is trying to represent for the further good of the film. Along with camera angles, sound gives important gesture in the

As the audience enjoys the sound while watching the movie but an important fact is that it carries meaning behind it. The Third Man has some great vocal instrument sound which takes the movie to a different level. In “Expressive Film Techniques” Phillips talks about sound and mentioned that “Sound is also used to mystify, mislead, then surprise when Martins runs away from two thugs and enters a darkened room and heroes an unidentifiable sound” (Phillip 178). In the scene where Harry is running away from Martins from the first time, we hear the footsteps sound that indicates that Vienna is a very quiet place to live. The most surprising scene in the movie with the sound is the sewer chase when Martins shoots Harry and it feels like Harry shot Martins because he had a gun. It turns out to be a different outcome and this is where the audience gets surprised. Phillips is trying to say the same thing that without the score, movies would not be as