Author(s)

Yan Min ^1,2

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Music and Recording Arts, Communication University of China, Beijing, 100024, China
² School of Art and Design, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710021, China

Corresponding Author

Yan Min

ABSTRACT

Ang Lee's film Lust, Caution blends romance, suspense, politics and spy war. Despite its complicated and braided storylines, the camera shots, movements and dialogues in it are rather simple and concise. Music has become a non-verbal discourse through which a myriad of unexpressed inner thoughts is subtly conveyed. Its original scores are classical compositions which created a sorrowful, obscure, heavy atmosphere and depicted a dark, damp, depressing, lustful, chaos and hopeless scene through the colorful orchestration and counterpoint technique.

KEYWORDS

Lust, Caution, film scores, musical discourse, audio-visual, soundtrack

CITE THIS PAPER

Yan Min, "Non-verbal Language": Analysis of the Musical Discourse of the Film Lust, Caution. Art and Performance Letters (2023) Vol. 4: 23-32. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/artpl.2023.040704.

REFERENCES

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