Film analysis - Eight Below: different ways, same purpose

Of course, body language is not the only way to present animal's emotion in the film. Through watched the Eight Below, I find several different ways to show animal character's emotion.  

Another way to show character's emotion in the film is music. As everyone knows, different type music will give us a different feeling. Even there is no picture in front of audiences, music also can make people moving or existing. When director edits music and picture together, the effect is remarkable. Let's watch this part:

In this scene, I believe every audience is worried about the injured dog. He lies on the snow because of his legs have folded. Everyone in this team come to him and stands around him. This moment, the music is slow and deliberate. After this scene, this poor dog has been dead in the snow. Actually, everybody knows that he cannot survive in the future, but we still worried. We also know that is a film, the dog hasn't been dead in the real world, but the music makes the others look very sadly. 

The third way to show animal character's emotion in the film is event(emergency). Let's watch the example again:

On this occasion, these dogs suffered a big trouble——compete with a seal for food. The seal is bigger, powerful fierce and cruel. 

When the dog found the food, he looks very happy and he is interesting in the food. However, when the seal rushed out, the dog has been terrified. His emotion changed from happy to nervous. That was happened in one second. At that moment, I think every audience has been scared. And everyone is worried about the dog.

Why we know the dog is terrified? Because human and animal's brain will make a response when they encounter something dangers. In a way, we can feel the dog's feeling at that time. The emergency event can bring the audience into the story, of course they can understand what is character's emotion in the story.

Anyway, in these three part of film, we can hear the music all the time. And we can see the body language all the time. The emergency event is a good way that we can't use all the time. Different ways, same purpose. The purpose is to show the character's emotion better in the film.