Analyzing Mr. Bean's Holiday

In the 30 minutes that I analyzed for Mr. Bean’s Holiday, the kinds of music that they used was a collection of songs. Most of the songs used in the movie were instrumental and symphony orchestra like. The composer of the score would be Howard Goodall. The type of performers that are used are an orchestra. The genres of music that are included are mainly instrumental classical like songs. While they are driving to Cannes in the evening, Mr. Bean is listening to radio and Born to be Wild, a rock metal song, plays. In the end of the movie, there is a jazz chanson French song by the name of La Mer that plays to signify that he reached the beach. The music contributes to the film in many ways because it sets a mood. Mr. Bean is a silent character …show more content…
Mr. Bean’s Holiday contains a lot of natural sound as it is filmed outside so the only sound effects would be ones applied to music. They function in advancing the narrative because they help progress the scene. For example, as Mr. Bean hits the road with Sabine and Stepan, and we get to the bridge in Cannes, beautiful instrumental music starts fading in. The music fades out as soon a shot of the whole bridge for ten seconds goes away and transitions into the next scene. They help you understand the setting because the music generally means they are moving along in the story to their destination. The sound effects reinforce good and bad moods that help you understand if Mr. Bean is doing good or bad in the …show more content…
The main character, Mr. Bean, does not do a lot of dialogue as his character is an autistic action speaking person. The other actors however, do have a lot of dialogue in the movie. Most of the people that Mr. Bean encounters throughout the movie, don’t speak English or speak it as their second language, so they have accents. Sabine, the woman that Mr. Bean meets, is French so she speaks French to him until she finds out he is an Englishman. Stepan, the young boy that Mr. Bean kidnapped, assumes Mr. Bean is Russian so he speaks to him in Russian throughout the movie. Mr. Bean is heading to Cannes, in France, so there is a lot of French encounters with other people. The dialogue works in the context of the narrative by defining who the characters are. It differentiates the characters by showing what type of a person they are and if they are a loyal to Mr. Bean. Sabine figures out who Mr. Bean is, via a news report on a news program, and has a conversation with him in English about it but understands that he is innocent and harmless. However, Stepan is a young boy that understands that Mr. Bean separated him from his father and is trying to help find him but most of the stuff he says is very cheerful, positive, and joking. The dialogue in the movie originates from within the diegetic, story world. In the movie, there is a lot of dialogue between Stepan and Sabine to Mr. Bean that shows that they are trying to communicate