Diegetic Sound In Today's Movies: Midnight Cowboy

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As we all know, sound plays a large role in today’s movies. There is diegetic sounds, which come from a source within the film’s world, and nondiegetic sounds, which come from a source outside that world, and are only heard by the audience. (Barsam-Monahan, 2016) Diegetic sound gives us, as the viewers, an awareness of both the spatial and the temporal dimensions of the shot from which the sound emanates from. An example of diegetic sound come from the movie Midnight Cowboy, which right after stepping in front of an oncoming car, which screeches to a halt and honks its’ horn and interrupts the conversation in the movie. Also, the opening to Guardians of the Galaxy plays music which is thought to be playing through the headphones the star

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