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Beau Travail: Sound and Cinema

Explore how sound and image portray Galoup's struggle after being expelled from the French Foreign Legion, leading to his apparent suicide, in the film "Beau Travail." Analyze the synchronization of senses through noise, music, rhythm, and voice-overs, revealing the inner turmoil and loss of identity that drives Galoup to his tragic end.

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Beau Travail: Sound and Cinema

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  1. Beau Travail: Sound and Cinema

  2. Noise, Music, and Galoup • Sound and image are used to show Galoup’s inability to cope with his expulsion from the French Foreign Legion; his loss of identity leading to his suicide, or apparent suicide. Through voice-over, rhythm (sound-image coordination), and ambiguous diegetic sound, this inner turmoil is made clear.

  3. Clip • Main clip (4:42)

  4. “synchronization of senses” • Noise- bed making, birds chirping • Music- “rhythm of the night” • Rhythm- coordination of sound with image • Voice over- “Serve the Good Cause and Die”

  5. Looking closer • Segment 1 – voiceover/fade in of music: • Galoup’s final voice-over is represented on his chest (tattoo) • Possible significance of coordinating the fade-in of the music with his visible pulse: emphasizes internal/personal aspect of the music, especially if we assume he kills himself.

  6. Functions of noise • For this clip, “noise” precipitates music and dance, adding emphasis and replacing a gunshot with music • Sounds of bed-making, birds chirping, like the ocean and desert noise used in other scenes, preclude particular music, or significant sound (the split-second helicopter explosion for example). For this scene, our expectations of “gun” and fatalistic voice-over are upset by music and the dancing that follows.

  7. Connections to rest of film Discipline and rhythm- Galoup’s dance Expectation and possible disunity- “death” represented by ecstatic expressive dance(closely choreographed to follow the music, but in such a way to absolutely contrast the discipline of the various training/exercise scenes throughout the film) Beau Travail, roughly translated, is “good/nice work” (roughly). For Galoup, death is the fulfillment of his devotion to the Legion. “The perfect legionnaire”

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