2 key scenes from The Third Man

Using at least two key scenes, describe the way in which mood, atmosphere and moral tone are established in “The Third Man”

“I really got to know Vienna in the period of the black market.” Mood, atmosphere and moral tone are vital to an audience’s understanding of a film as such aspects evoke emotion for the characters involved, and so appeals to our basic understandings and decencies as human beings. Indeed, “The Third Man” too evokes such emotions as through the use of setting, camera work and indeed both diogetic and non-diogetic sounds, the audience are given an insight into the world of the characters and the moral atmosphere in which they live.

The opening scene in which the narrator, Major Calloway, gives the audience a background of recent events and more importantly the effects that they have had on the nation, clearly establishes the mood and atmosphere of the entire film. Through the use of a voice-over monologue and montage of shots of post World War II ...