This scene from, The Big Lebowski, has a way of building suspicion and making the audience feel as if they were invaded upon very quickly. When listening to the audio of this scene, it uses causal sounds as well as referential sounds. It goes from silence to pure chaos within a split second. The audience hears sounds they would expect when they see the Dude’s satchel slams into the wall, destroying it as he flies past. When the Dude is practically being drowned in the toilet, the water bubbles and when he is lifted, the water splashes everywhere and he gasps for air just like anyone would expect. A referential use of sound that stood out to me was right away when the man that attacked the Dude began screaming like a maniac. This was done to make the audience feel panic and a possible adrenaline rush.
We are given the illusion in the start of this scene that there is more sound than there really is. The only sounds you hear are the attacker yelling, the Dude yelling, running and slamming. Yet, when you hear it you feel as though it is an invasion with more than two people causing all of that sound. The intensity of the start of the scene has little to no sound, just white noise and then jumps to using very high volume once the Dude is attacked. When the Dude is told he is married, the pitch of his voice becomes higher due his disbelief that the attackers can’t see he is clearly single. The Big Lebowski uses realistic sound that the audience can relate to.
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