Comparison of the Manchurian Candidate 1962 & 2004

                                      Comparison of the Manchurian Candidate 1962 & 2004

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) was made by John Frankenheimer. The thriller is based on politics about a son in an upper class family embraced in politics who is brainwashed unknowingly to an assassin for the communist party.

In this clip of the film, the non diegetic sound has a  very low pitch and changes rapidly to to a high pitched non diegetic sound give thrills to the audience.

The Manchurian Candidate (2004) was made by Jonathan Demme. This version of the thriller is also based on a man who is brainwashed to being an assassin. But instead of the cold war this the man in his troops get kidnapped during the gulf war.
This is when their process of being brainwashed begun.
During the beginning of the film the is a flashback to when the troops were in kuwait for the gulf war. The modern film has more of a believed battle than the war on the older film. This was because in the new film there was explosions, and even night vision.

The use of non diegetic sound is used more productively in the new version than the old version.One example of this is when the music sounded like blood was pumping around the brain in the flashback scene.