The following blog is in reference to this scene in The Incredibles
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FADE IN
EXT: IN THE CLOUDS
Three rockets are closing in on a jet with HELEN and her
kids DASH and VIOLET. Intense string music plays in the
background.
HELEN
Abort! Abort! Abort!
Violet is seen trying to make a force field but only
produces a small ball that pops with a ELECTRONIC sound.
HELEN
Abort! Abort! Abort!
Helen speaks quicker and louder as the rockets close in. The
rocket sounds becomes high pitch seconds before impact.
Helen wraps her kids into a ball of her elastic body. A loud
EXPLOSION occurs and the plane is obliterated. The three
people begin to fall as pieces of the plane WHIZ past the
camera. The string music becomes more hectic and dark.
Violet and Dash both begin to scream crazily. Helen awakes
to their screams and grabs them both and creates a parachute
with her body. As her body deploys the string music comes to
an immediate stop. The sound of wind is heard rushing
through Helen.
HELEN
Brace yourselves.
The camera looks down on the family. The waves of the ocean
are heard as they come closer. The family softly lands into
the sea.
DASH AND VIOLET
Mom! Mom!
HELEN
Everybody calm down. Now, I’ll tell
you what we’re not gonna do. We’re
not gonna panic, we’re not
gonna--look out!
Helen pushes her children under the water and swims to avoid
the large part of the ship CRASH into the ocean. It is heard
as people underwater would hear it. Many air bubbles are
rising to the surface. The family surfaces
DASH/VIOLET
-Who’s idea was this anyway?!
-What are we gonna do?! What are we
gonna do?!
DASH
We’re dead! We’re dead!
VIOLET
It blew up!
DASH
We survived but we’re dead!
HELEN
Stop it! We are not gonna die! Now
both of you will get a grip. Or so
help me I will ground you for a
month! Understand?
Those were short-range missiles.
Land-based. That way is our best
bet.
DASH
You want to go toward the people
that tried to kill us?
HELEN
If it means land, yes.
VIOLET
Do you expect us to swim there?
HELEN
I expect you to trust me.
Heroic orchestra music begins to play. Helen has shaped
herself into a boat as violet sits and you hear Dash’s feet
FLUTTER as he paddles the boat.
FADE OUT:
The beginning scene does great work with the use of time. The speed and loudness snowballs as the rockets close in on the plane. Subjective time is used to increase intensity, the camera jumps from Helen to the rockets outside, to the radar on the plane, to the children very quickly. The camera is dragging out the time by jumping to what is happening to the different subject matter over a matter of seconds. The space of sound is deep as everything is happening over a large amount of land. The movement and direction of the sound close in on the plane as the rockets close in which results in the loud explosion to climax the suspense of the scene. Which continues as they survive the crash but now are crashing towards the water and the subject of them in distress comes to a halt when Helen creates a parachute with her body and softens their landing. There is a final moment of distress as a large part of the plane is about to crash on top of them but Helen again saves her family by swimming out of the way. Now that all obstacles of death are dealt with the scene progresses as Helen relaxes the kids and makes a plan to travel to the island where the rockets came from. From that the scene changes emotion again as you see the family brave and heroic as they journey to face their attackers.
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