Showing posts with label awkward Margin Call scene. Show all posts
Showing posts with label awkward Margin Call scene. Show all posts

Thursday, January 5, 2012

How to Make 'Margin Call' Even More Awkwardly Tense? Remove the Dialogue.


Found this YouTube video via Slate’s Brow Beat culture blog.

It features a really tense scene from the excellent film Margin Call – it’s on DVD/On Demand and is well worth the time – but it has removed all the dialogue except for a few mutterings of "Uhhh." You do, however, hear the tapping of pens, people drumming their fingers on the large conference table, the sound effect of an e-mail arriving on a laptop, stomachs growling and Jeremy Irons’ boss man impatiently flipping the edges of a report.

It’s amazing what a difference it can make to watch people not speak to one another. Still just as tense. And a little funny too, unlike the original scene in which there wasn't a drop of humor.