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 fortifies the state of mind significantly all through the film . The film is around three ladies in three distinctive timeframes who all experience self-destructive contemplations and gay sentiments. Albeit a more slow pace, the film has a clear rhythm to it, moving between the three primary characters easily through equal cuts in a cross-cutting design. The vast majority of the pacing is moderate, proposing an astute way to deal with the film for the viewer.At times, the film’s pacing derides the traditional music playing out of sight, in this way next to no differentiation in pacing exists. The altering assists with depicting a smooth, nearly arranged inclination to the film. All things considered, the music in the film, very nearly a steady, 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 exceptionally 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 faster tempo.In one of the initial successions of the film, the utilization of bounce trims (every single consecutive trim) between the characters of Virginia Woolf and Clarissa Vaughan both doing likewise errands, preparing for the afternoon, shows Claris sa beginning to place her hair in a bun and afterward trims to Virginia Woolf doing likewise. This utilization of story progression between double cross periods starts the assignment of integrating the characters. This strategy is utilized again presently in a montage where every one of the three ladies, Clarissa Vaughan, Laura Brown, and Virginia Woolf all discuss flowers.Virginia Woolf talks about her fundamental 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 principal line â€Å"Mrs. Dalloway purchases the blossoms herself† which Mrs. Woolf referenced in the earlier scene, and in the last scene Clarissa Vaughan (frequently 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 effecti vely integrates every one of the three time periods alongside the characters while providing the watcher with their basic 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 kid grins the most brilliant grin of the entire film, swoon moderate movement is utilized now to depict the force of the circumstance. This procedure likewise encourages with the change to some other timespan. Bounce slice to another extremely extraordinary scene where a grown-up Richard Brown is recalling this and sobbing. Another extraordinary change 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 long run the subtlet ies are uncovered that the watcher has been moved back to England with Mrs. Woolf as the camera container back. Works Cited The Hours. Dir. Stephen Daldry. Principal 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