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William Hopson explores how Alan Silvestri’s score proves to be manipulative in the best possible way in Forrest Gump.
Game of Thrones wouldn’t be Game of Thrones without Ramin Djawadi, who has been producing consistently excellent scores for the past nine years.
For this month’s Staff Inquiry we surveyed our writers to see which soundtracks really knocked their socks off. See if you agree with their choices.
It’s rare that composers adapt themes and pieces, but Michael Giacchino’s bold steps to make everything he composes personal makes him stand out as one of contemporary cinema’s leading composers.
The real power of scores is the intensity of feeling, the nostalgia of remembering, and (above all) the way it cements a film’s legacy.
We had the chance to speak with director Matt Schrader about the making of his upcoming documentary Score: A Film Music Documentary, a film any film nerd should see.
In the beginning, there was light. It moved, it danced, it enthralled, but in the end, it was just light. Even in the silent era, exhibitors recognized the value of sound, coming up with a wide array of live and pre-recorded solutions to the problem of representing reality with only one of our five senses (and drained of color at that).
Closely approaching Quentin Tarantino’s new film The Hateful Eight arises expectations not only because of the name he has created for himself, but also because we are aware of the repeating pattern of collaborators in his films. But this piece is not about the cast of the film nor about Tarantino’s specific style. It is about the collaborators behind the scene, specifically on his first time collaboration with Ennio Morricone as a composer of the film’s original soundtrack.
Guardians of the Galaxy broke records this year when its soundtrack reached number one, making it the first soundtrack in history to reach number one with no new songs on the album. This got me thinking about great soundtracks and the use of popular music versus composition. There’s a time and a place for both, and sometimes a time for none.
In this installment of How to Analyze Movies we discuss the importance of lighting, sound and score, and how you should analyze them.