Vendo o som no cinema : os fenômenos sonoros na sequência de abertura de Era Uma Vez no Oeste (1968) de Sergio Leone

Abstract

This final paper provides a description and analysis of sound phenomenon in the opening sequence of the film Once Upon a Time in the West, of Sergio Leone, assuming that the sound is an important key agent in the construction of the film. Our description will highlight the different sounds present in the sequence, also allows to analyze how the management of these sounds, combined with the imagistic plans’ content, can produce an attentive audio-spectators to different meanings and nuances that such sounds and images build. To provide the basis for this analysis we used as the theoretical contributions the Michel Chion and Rodrigo Carreiro studies about the sound in the cinema. We seek, through this study, understand that the sound in the cinema has the power to awaken in audio-spectators other sensory experiences beyond listening.