At 11:54 28/06/95 -0600, Kristine Butler wrote:
>Can anyone help me in thinking of movies in which a conversation or a human
>voice is deliberately obstructed or drowned out by another sound, thus
>frustrating the spectator's access to the voice or voices in question?
>Godard does this in certain of his films, and I'm thinking that Hitchcock
>has too (in that this is a clever way to build suspense).  Thanks in
>advance!
>
 
 
What about Kubrick's "2001"? Remember the sequence in which the two
astronauts talk about HAL inside a space module so the computer cannot hear
them... we just see them trough HAL's POV and the "silence" obstructs the
conversation...
 
Just a though
Regards
 
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