Throughout this film Franklin used many techniques to his advantage like sound and lighting. He used indigenous and tranquil music that really went with many of the major themes in this movie. Like most movies Franklin had the music increase in volume and tempo as the scene became more intense and serious. He did this at a more considerable way because he had the music fading in and out of specific scenes which really makes the movie easier to watch and keep up with what's going on. The music also goes well with the magical scenery of the llano and the lighting was perfect throughout the film weather it was showing a characters emotion or just showing the audience the wide open plains of the llano. Franklin does an excellent job using lighting for every scene because the lighting changes with the mood of what is happening in the story which he is trying to hint at using foreshadow to let the audience kind of figure out what will happen next. When things become grim at certain points of the film usually involving death Franklin purposely makes the lighting change from a lighter background to a darker drearier one. Franklin did an excellent job with this whole movie (technique wise) but personally it wasn't one of my favorites. One thing I did not like at all was the narrator's voice that was supposedly Antonino's. Having that narration gave off the illusion that the narrator was a completely different character in the movie. Comparing the book and movie I think Franklin did a really good job with keeping the events that happened in the book in chronological order and transferring that to the movie. The one major difference I would say would have to be that the book is more about Antonio's decisions and how he is pressured at home to do well and his felling towards god and everything he believes in. We see a bit of that in the movie but nothing like the book but overall Franklin did a decent job using techniques like lighting and sound to bring the book, characters and struggles to life but really lacked on showing the predicaments the Antonio faced.
Review of Bless Me, Ultima
