I chose to write about the opening scene from the film “Get Out”. The first diegetic sound I noticed was the car puling up next to the guy. The driver had his music on and the character could hear it and so could the audience. Then non diegetic music come son. This piece is called “Run Rabbit Run” by Flanagan and Allen. It gives the movie a very weird and scary vibe which is appropriate because the film is a horror movie.
In this scene, a man named Andre is kidnapped. He will come up later in the film. “Andre (Lakeith Stanfield) is a young black man walking alone at night, lost in an affluent white neighborhood. He’s kidnapped. This Andre is the
same one we meet later in the film (and on page 49 of the script),
though his manner and appearance are different, and his name changed to
Logan“(Myers, “Script Analysis: “Get Out” — Part 1: Scene By Scene Breakdown”). Te music in this scene hints to the audience that this film is not your average “meet the family film”. There is a dark undertone to this film and the music helps communicate that message to the audience. The brass part of “Run Rabbit Run” gives it a very throwback vibe. Maybe its hinting to Jim Crow laws? The tempo is nice and relaxing which is chilling given the fact that this is a horror movie.
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I agree with you with how the piece “Run Rabbit Run” gave off a very weird and scary vibe. When I first heard the song playing in the car when it pulled up I was very creeped out and scared by it because it was very suspicious that the car was playing that song, and I knew from that moment that something bad was going to happen.
I agree with what you heard with the tempo. That “nice and relaxing” vibe that it gives off is only nice and relaxing if you’re listening to it next to the beach, not when there is a car slowly following your every step.