Introduction

Welcome everyone to a world of movies. Where action, drama, fiction, nonfiction, science, and horror is found in the words created by a character. Movies are a fascinating. It is amazing the way a character uses the words he speaks to influence the tone of a movie. With one small dialogue in a movie you can know what the movie will talk about or what the plot will be.
Movies use rhetoric for more than expressing the genre of a movie. They also use rhetoric to show emotion. A movie with a bad rhetoric is bad movie. A good movie to me is classified by how good graphics are and how good the characters are. This means that if a character does not express good rhetoric i would not even bother watching it. I hope you enjoy reading about various movies and how their voices influence the film in a magnificent way.

Rhetoric In Movies (Pan's Labyrinth)

Pans Labyrinth is a movie that takes place in 1944. Pan Labyrinth is about a girl who loved fairy tales. She is sent with her pregnant mother to live with her stepfather. Her stepfather was a Captain of the Spaniard army. When she arrives in the small town where she was to live she is visited by a fairy at night. This fairy leads her to a labyrinth where in the center she finds an old faun. He tells her she is a princess and in order to prove that her royal blood was still in tact she had to complete several different tasks. In the end of the movie it doesn't explain whether all she saw was a dream or a real reality because after her stepfather shoots her and she dies she end ups with the king which is suppose to be her real father.
Ofelia which is the main character uses her language and tone in the movie to describe her emotions and her actions. The way she talks to her mother about how she feels about her stepfather truly symbolizes her discomfort towards him. Her problems with her stepfather and her love over fairy tales is what leads her into a world of magic.
Another really strong for of rhetoric that is shown through out the movie is the way she talks to the faun. She always talks with a questionable tone. Her tone in the movie make her sound uncomfortable. She doesn't know what to do or believe but she does what the faun tells her because of the troubles she goes through in her home. Towards the ending of the movie she looses all trust in the faun. The faun tells her that he needs a drop of blood from her baby brothers blood and she refuses to give it. He tells her that the only way she can return to her parents is to give a drop of blood but she completely refuses.
When she refuses to give in the child the faun tells her she will never see him again and she will not be able to go back with her real parents. As soon as the faun dissapeared her stepfather arrived and he made her give him the child. As soon as she did he shot her. She died and met up with her real parents. They told her everything was a test and that the last one she didn't fell, she passed because she didnt give an innocents childs life. She was allowed to live next to her real parents and forever be happy.
I think this movie has a good rhetoric. The way Ofelia uses her words and voice show the tone of the movie. The tone of the movie of the movie is questioning. Questioning because you cant really calculate whats gonna happen next but by the tone of her voice you know what she will or will not do.