Filmic Soundscape: The Third Man | Carol Reed, 1949
#Architectural Analysis #Architecture Theory #Urban Reading #Film
The Cooper Union, New York
The project explores the role of sound in the creation of a filmic space. The dramatic scenes describing the hunt after the third man (Orson Welles) takes place in the sewers of Vienna after the Second World War. These vaulted spaces, along with water flows, create a space of echoes. The sound played an important role, not only in creating the atmosphere but also in progressing the plot. The third man, the unbeatable man who always succeeds to escape, has been captured psychologically by the space of sound. The echoes in the sewers surround him as he reveals fractures of weakness, and from that moment on his death is closer than ever.