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I know!) So I might feel different about that one too. But I do remember liking the music a lot, listening to it before watching the movie and being pleasantly surprised with how it was edited in when I did watch it (it doesn't overpower the playground scenes, for one thing). Just some thoughts.
lombano wrote:I had the same problem with the soundtrack, it seemed massively overdone, the only time I thought it was effective was in Thomas' death scene.
Sometimes the music that "punctuates" a movie heightens, extends and deepens, such as the delicate little number that's playing as Oskar offers his cube to Eli. Sometimes, in movies, the music is garish, noisy and just stupidly out of place. Most of the time, it's just mildly annoying and pointlessly obtrusive.a_contemplative_life wrote:"Ponderous" might be a good word...
That's really what bothered me, too. In fact maybe it actually worked to underline the allusion that Owen will become the next Thomas, although it got there in kind of a roundabout way. What I said before about the romantic scenes only being 'romantic' because of the music now feels like (if you want to interpret it this way) the audience is being manipulated by the music into thinking it's an innocent romance, just as Owen is being lured by Abby. I'm not inclined to argue about the ending, because I honestly don't care that much, but I do think that this one ends a lot more ominously than LTROI, and that it's likely that Abby was older than she pretended to be, as opposed to Eli. Anyway that's kind of what I get from the music after thinking it over. But this is probably because I've thought about this story a lot; I still don't think the score here is exactly successful. I like your analysis though.sauvin wrote: But I still find the tonality of much of the LMI sound track at odds with the narrative.
Actually, I felt this too, although it was a little different for me. I looked up the soundtrack after I'd read the book,when I was still debating whether or not to watch the film. I didn't think much of it the first couple times I heard it. I don't remember why; I guess it was because it wasn't what I expected and I didn't have the exact visuals to match up with it. But then I went back to it a while later and for some reason it just grabbed onto me. I might not have watched the film at all if not for the music. I think the best film scores are the ones that sort of worm their way into your subconscious. The first time around you might not remember them but when you hear them again and actually listen for them they're much more subtle than you would think. I have had Johan Söderqvist's music work its way into my dreams; that to me is what it should do, it shouldn't get in the way of the film but it should also demand a re-listen. LMI didn't do that for me. I don't remember it any better this time.sauvin wrote: The funny thing is, I remember my reaction to some of the music from LTROI first time i watched it. I remember thinking "Holy $deity, they dragged out three or four whole orchestras for this one, didn't they!?" I found it heavy and massive, but somebody on the IMDB boards said "Um, no, actually, sounds like a nice blend of Scandinavian traditional and modern themes to me.." After having heard it a few hundred times (!), it's easy now to say that it has its subtleties, that it's not "heavy" or "massive", that it's actually very delicate, balanced and full of little nuances. If you're musically inclined, give it a really good listen - ALL of it - a couple dozen times. Even when you think it's standing still, it isn't. It's very complex even when it's moving very slowly.
It also kind of proves that they wanted Abby to be a monster? .. if that's the case Matt did a good job, Abby is awful. There were words? Can you transcribe them?intrige wrote:I liked the score, but that was only in one small scene. During the rest of the movie I hated it, espesially when that police man walks so slowly up to Abby's bathroom door, so stupid with stupid soundtrack.
The score I did like was when Abby bled. The reason why is that I gave a love for a capalla music-ish songs and soundtracks. Pluss, it sounded so " hail the devil" type of.. mood. I actually found the words they sung in that scene, transelated from latin, it was actually devil, monser, type of stop in the lyrics. Which I think makes it all very funny.
