Film Essay – the Hours

The Hours Mellissa Krause 02/08/13 Production: Paramount Pictures/Miramax Films, January 2003 Producer: Robert Fox; Scott Rudin; Mark Huffman Director: Stephen Daldry Screenplay: David Hare (screenplay); Michael Cunningham (novel) Cinematography: Seamus McGarvey Editing: Peter Boyle Music: Philip Glass Principal Characters: Clarissa Vaughan Meryl Streep Laura Brown Julianne Moore Virginia WoolfNicole Kidman Richard Brown Ed Harris KittyToni Collette Julia Vaughan Claire Danes Louis WatersJeff Daniels Leonard WoolfStephen DillaneSally LesterAllison Lester Dan Brown John C. Riley Vanessa BellMiranda Richardson The pacing in the film The Hours strengthens the mind-set extraordinarily all through the film . The film is around three ladies in three diverse timespans who all experience self-destructive considerations and gay sentiments. Albeit a more slow pace, the film has a positive rhythm to it, moving between the three primary characters easily through equal cuts in a cross-cutting des ign. A large portion of the pacing is moderate, recommending an attentive way to deal with the film for the viewer.At times, the film’s pacing ridicules the traditional music playing out of sight, hence next to no complexity in pacing exists. The altering assists with depicting an extremely smooth, nearly arranged inclination to the film. All things considered, the music in the film, just about a consistent, accelerates and eases back down during additionally energizing scenes. A model is during the scene when a grown-up Richard Brown tumbles to his demise. The music is extremely quiet as he is addressing his dear companion Clarissa Vaughan and afterward as he tumbles from the window, the piano out of sight increases an a lot snappier tempo.In one of the initial arrangements of the film, the utilization of hop trims (every straight trim) between the characters of Virginia Woolf and Clarissa Vaughan both doing likewise errands, preparing for the afternoon, shows Clarissa begin ning to place her hair in a bun and afterward trims to Virginia Woolf doing likewise. This utilization of account headway between double cross periods starts the errand of integrating the characters. This procedure is utilized again presently in a montage where every one of the three ladies, Clarissa Vaughan, Laura Brown, and Virginia Woolf all talk about flowers.Virginia Woolf discusses her principle character â€Å"getting the blossoms herself†, at that point in the following scene slice to Laura Brown beginning to peruse the book Mrs. Woolf is writing in the earlier scene and talks resoundingly the main line â€Å"Mrs. Dalloway purchases the blossoms herself† which Mrs. Woolf referenced in the earlier scene, and in the last scene Clarissa Vaughan (regularly alluded to as Mrs. Dalloway, for example, in Virginia Woolf’s epic referenced all through the film) says â€Å" Sally, I figure I will purchase the blossoms myself†. This effectively integrates each of the three time allotments alongside the characters while providing the watcher with their normal thread.In one of the most strong successions when Laura Brown is driving a youthful Richard Brown back home after she nearly kills herself at an inn. She takes a gander at him and lets him know, â€Å"Your my guy† and the youngster grins the most brilliant grin of the entire film, swoon moderate movement is utilized now to depict the force of the circumstance. This strategy likewise encourages with the progress to some other timespan. Hop slice to another exceptionally extraordinary scene where a grown-up Richard Brown is recalling this and sobbing. Another extraordinary progress which rakes place is using inside/out editing.While most the film is altering is done all things considered/in context, one scene where Virginia Woolf is at the train station, we are shocked from the home of Clarissa Vaughan to a perspective on a moving train and in the end the subtleties are uncovere d that the watcher has been shipped back to England with Mrs. Woolf as the camera container back. Works Cited The Hours. Dir. Stephen Daldry. Vital Pictures/Miramax Films. 2003. http://en. wikipedia. organization/wiki/The_Hours_(film) http://www. imdb. com/title/tt0274558/fullcredits? ref_=tt_ov_st_sm#cast