In real life, when it snows at night, it's absolutely beautiful. The snow sparkles as it comes down, and I like lying down in a snowbank and looking up at it. But then it gets cold and my ears begin to freeze off and I have to go inside.
But I love watching snow in movies, because it's beautiful and not cold at all, because I'm sitting on my couch or in a theater.
And any scene with snow just looks magical. It really does. Especially when it's night time and snow is falling down. I especially like it when it's in a foreboding scene, but it's good anytime.
It's few and far between, too. I can only think of a handful of movies that have scenes where it's snowing. There are plenty of scenes with snow already on the ground, but that's not impressive at all, because it usually looks brown and dirty.
I'm sure there are more than I can think of, but right now I'm thinking Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, lots of the Harry Potter films, Edward Scissorhands, and Amadeus are the only ones I've seen. I might be wrong. I have to be. So if you know of any others, let me know and I'll watch them, because I love it.
Snow adds so much to the scene. Rain is great, too, but there's something about snow-- maybe it's that you can actually see the flakes, and rain just sort of fogs up the lens-- that is just so incredible.
Anyway, that's one thing that I think should appear in more movies. Take out all the half-hour long sex scenes and put in some snow.
The Bourne Identity comes to my mind. In a way, snow at night can really cast the feeling of the whole movie in that scene. Because of the black and white that's portrayed, it's the moment in a movie where the audience can sense and reflect what the character(s) are experiencing.
ReplyDeleteBased on the movies you mentioned, they're happyish movies so your left with a bigger impact of happy during those scenes. In Bourne, it's more of a lonely sense you experience.
Also, I'll have to get loads of snow scenes on my screen saver for when you come over. :P
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