Here they are “greeted” (not exactly the warmest greeting) by Emmett, a loner who has lost his entire family and is adamant that the Abbotts shall not find refuge with him.
There’s no time to grieve, though, and no time for an emotional goodbye as the rest of the Abbott family quietly leave their now destroyed home, and make their way through the valley towards a sign of other humans. From here, the audience is brought back into present time, picking up after the horrifying final moments of the first film. It’s quite refreshing to be shown a snapshot of what day one was like for the Abbott family and the rest of the world (there’s news of international cities being completely destroyed). Effectively, no dramatic music is played – all that can be heard (or not heard) is the stunned silence of the baseball players and the surrounding crowd, paired with the hauntingly ominous sound of the giant meteorite ploughing through the clouds at high speed. As the Abbott family enjoy a relaxing weekend at the ball park, son Marcus gets ready to hit a home-run in a game of little-league, when out of the blue a giant, threatening meteorite is seen hurtling in the sky towards the ground. The beginning is thrilling, showing how a lovely, normal day in small-town America can be completely flipped on its head and normality thrown out the window, possibly forever. Jumping back in time, the audience is taken all the way back to day one- D-day – the day the aliens arrived on earth.
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“We saw it right at the beginning during the alien invasion, when everything is so cacophonous and terrifying and then we switch immediately to Regan’s perspective of just silence, and there’s such a powerful dynamic shift there that we really couldn’t do in the first movie because there weren’t as many scenes with such a sense of chaos.Putting stomachs in knots and causing the clenching of arm rests – suspense returns to cinemas with A Quiet Place II picking up directly after the Abbott’s dramatic family loss as they make their silent, post-apocalyptic journey to find safety within the deadly, alien-inhabited world. “When we looked at John ’s script, we were certain that he was thinking about the sound at every moment because we could see so many opportunities built into the story for us to switch perspectives sonically,” Van Der Ryn said. While jump scares often use loud bursts of sound to shock people, “A Quiet Place – Part II” goes in the opposite direction as Van Der Ryn and Aadahl, working with mixer Brandon Proctor, cut out all sound in multiple scenes to show the terror through Regan’s perspective, making the sudden appearance of one of the creatures even more frightening when it is shown that Regan can’t hear its approaching stomps and roars. This technique was particularly used on the film’s main deaf protagonist, Regan, played by Millicent Simmonds. “We felt it would have been too obvious to use the ‘clicks’ that those sort of animals use as the basis for the creatures, but we found that when you record the clicks made by a stun gun and slow them down, they create this disturbing, otherworldly sound that was perfect for the film.” “The creatures use strong hearing to hunt, so we started with the idea of replicating actual animals like dolphins and bats that use echolocation to observe their surroundings,” Van Der Ryn said. To create the roars and hisses of the aliens that hunt the Abbotts, Van Der Ryn and Aadahl found the answer in an unexpected place: a stun gun. While sound editors compile the different sounds used in a film, a creature feature like “A Quiet Place” brings the additional challenge of creating new sounds entirely for monsters that don’t exist in reality. Together and individually, the two have worked on films like “Titanic,” the “Transformers” and the “Kung Fu Panda” series,” and the upcoming “Space Jam: A New Legacy.” Van Der Ryn has also won two Oscars for his sound editing on “Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” and the 2005 remake of “King Kong.” “A Quiet Place” earned Van Der Ryn and Erik Aadahl their third Oscar nomination as a sound editing team, adding to a career that spans some of the biggest blockbusters of the past quarter-century. ‘A Quiet Place - Part II’ Sets New Pandemic Record With $57 Million Memorial Day Opening
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