Run Lola run is a 1998 German film directed by Tom Tykwer. What A Difference A Day Makes (Music by Maria Grever). A grimacing pendulum that sweeps credits into and out of sight – relentless, staring – until, mercifully, we are swallowed up and transported into a crowd. Wandering, faceless, lost among our questions and lead by the narrator through the multitude, we encounter a security guard, who neatly parallels life, and the film, with a game of soccer. The ticking sound creates a sense of time running out. A conversation then ensues between Lola and her partner Mannie, ten cut shots are used to capture the scene in which the panting and frantic Mannie tells the audience how he came to loose the $100,000 he earned from drugs, to build suspense to a further degree, non-diagetic music of rapid paced sounds are used to increase the audiences heart rate-also Lola's. This soundtrack provides the audience with a sense of intense euphoria, substantiating the chaos both within the plot of the film and also for the viewers watching it. © 2007–2020 Art of the Title, LLC. At different points in the film, Lola screams in order to articulate the distress she is under and in the process, she ends up breaking things made of glass. An important aspect to take note of is that all the aforementioned diegetic sounds have played a major role in keeping the attention of the audience towards the narrative and screen. It contains influences of African folk, Carnatic and ‘Hindustani’ Classical music. Works appearing on Art of the Title are the property of their respective owners. The soundtracks along with the pleonastic gunshots helped the director create an intensity, that resembles a first-person shooter game. 4. Analysis of the opening Sequence to Run Lola, Run. During this unusual scene, seven or eight cuts are made varying from profile shots to medium shots on different people, the people's faces seem distressed and unamusing and with the montage of ultra quick cuts the audiences is left in a bizarre state of questioning the reality of the sequence. However, as the director himself states, the popular dance music element of the track is much more explicitly embedded within the composition. It signals the beginning of the game for the protagonist Lola (Franka Potente). After this, the camera zooms into the clock's opening before fading into the title sequence. The film Run Lola Run, directed by Tom Tykwer is considered one of the best manifestations of postmodern films, bringing within its fold elements of non-linearity, contradiction, fragmentation, and instability. This track was played when Lola started running in the second part or possibility of the film. All the characters in the film get introduced in this sequence while the voice-over continues. All in all, Run Lola Run is like a mix between reality and a video game. She’s a cartoon, being gulped down by monsters, punching her way through credits, racing tirelessly against the clock, until she is caught in a whirlpool and flushed into the next act. After the character is fatally wounded, the scene dissolves to a red screen and goes to Lola and Manni lying in bed still entirely red. A voice is heard in the background, which questions, why are people so worried about life and it’s meaning? All of the lighting seems realistic, Lola's clothing dirty with a messy room, she lacks make up, the locations are realistic, and consistent spatial distances. Background music, noises and pace of sound have been modulated according to the requirements of the various scenes. There are eight soundtracks in the film in total. Tick, tick, tick. What was your expectations of the film based on the opening sequence? The flashbacks of Mannie's true events (filmed in black and white to represent the past) show low angle shots of the drug lord, the villain, dressed in (a rather stereotypical) long black leather jacket and a silver chain. The music, which primarily contains ‘techno scores‘ initiates an adrenaline rush for the viewers and also takes the film forward. After this, two or so seconds is given before zooming in on a football, once the football is kicked in the air, the camera (by using special effects) follows the ball through the air until its descent back down to earth, the iconography of this object is very important- through the use of a well known object the audience understands its common uses in modern culture, it also indicates important themes later on in the film. This track is specifically gets played in a sequence when Lola is about to enter the casino. The scene would then dissolve into the next where another character would stand out in the crowd.