Clue (The Movie)

Clue

Release date: Dec 13 1985

Length: 94 min’s             Genre: Comedy, Mystery

Writers: John Landis, and Johnathan Lynn

Directors: Jonathan Lynn

Major Actors: Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, and Lesley Ann Warren

Plot Summery

Clue is a comedic murder mystery base off a popular game invented by Anthony E. Pratt. The game is a murder mystery game in which the player have to find out who murdered Mr. Boddy, with what weapon, and in which room of the mansion. The movie takes each character in the game and turns them into a character in the movie. Each character is even a motive to kill Mr. Boddy and a weapon supplied by Mr. Boddy himself. The weapons are intended for the characters to use to kill Mr. Boddy’s butler, but when the lights go out affairs get a little out of hand. Now the characters are locked in a mason with a killer, but the question is, who is the murder, who else is in the mason, who killed who, and who will be killed next. With three different endings and only one being the real ending this movie truly brings the sprite of the game Clue to life. With its wonderful all-star cast and its incredible use of sadistic yet tasteful humor, this is a truly young-less movie that’s story will never get old.  

Sound Effects

Sound play a big role in this movie. It is true that every movie has at least one form of sound or the other unless it is a silent movie that is and even then they sometimes have music. Clue uses two types of sounds diegetic and non-diegetic sound. The diegetic and non-diegetic sounds in this movie are amazing and give this movie a deep rich feeling that the viewer is in the room with the characters. Sounds of rain and large rolls of thunder play a big part in the begging of the movie setting the scene of what is normally the start of every classic thriller. There is no background music for most of the movie which leaves a lot of room open for sound effects, and the director didn’t miss one. In the first part of the movie, it is very clear that the sound effects are important. Whenever they pick up one of the dead bodies in the movie they drop in on the floor, and the director makes sure to pick up every last bit of it. The sound is so real that some people have been reminded of hearing someone or themselves falling in the past, so just to let you know it doesn’t sound like the dropped a sack of potatoes on the floor. It sounds more like they put a microphone on the floor and literally drop the person on the floor, while the microphone picked up every ounce of movement on the floor.      

              

         

               Sounds of screams, voices, bangs, rain and thunder make up the non-diegetic. One example of non-diegetic sound in the movie was when Yvette was in the billiard room and listening to the conversation the recorder was recording from in the other room. The charters were acting as narrators which helped to keep the story going even though we were being further introduced to the character Yvette who is in a different room. When the camera goes back to the characters in the lounge we hear Yvette scream from the other room. These off-screen sounds, and on screen sounds helps to keep the viewer on focus as they jump from shot to shot and character to character. There is an awkward moment for the characters in the movie when a cop shows up in the mason and the place if full of corpses. The use of a megaphone with its naturally off razzed sound and crackle were used like it has been in order scary movies to depict these awkward and scary moments, and what is more awkwardly scary than a cop coming to your house when it's full of murder bodies. If you haven’t seen this movie it is well worth putting on your must-see list. You will laugh and ah and not be disappointed.