Persuasive Falls

The video collage, The Discussion about the Reasons of The Falls, contains and mashups a series of recognisable film footages from The Fall, Sherlock, Sherlock Holms, to The Avengers, Titanic and many others. The producers of this remix video, Tippo and Maria, selected and edited the pieces of characters falling from the high in those films for the purpose of discussing the use of the fall in movies. The video starts with five falling scenes: the little girl falls from the stairs, the hero (played by Lee Pace) falls into the pool, man in white suit falls from the wall, the green dressed warrior cuts the rope and falls, and the hero falls again in the movie called The Fall which reinforces the title and the aim of this video. From both the content and the written description of the video, the producers divided the falling scenes into three subcategories: Fall for Fun, Fall in Love, and Fall into Danger. These subcategories are related to the content of the film plots as the causes the characters’ behaviours. At the end of the video, the

From what the video has achieved, however, one could argue that the video is more about categorising the purpose of the falls by the content of the plots, rather than revealing the purpose of having the falling scenes as a cinematic narrative technique. The motivation of this video just reminds me one theory in Linda William’s article, Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess, in which she argues that any impacting actions or behaviors bear the purpose of manipulating the audience’s body at a sensational level which recalls the tactile memory of the audiences themselves in order to create the sense of immersion. Technically, this is my reading of why do films often tend to have all types of falling scenes because they create intension and arise curiosity about whether or not the character is still