#film score

[velvet4510]

Yeah The Phantom Menace is technically 20th century but just by a year so it gets a pass.

#star wars #leitmotif #musical score #film score #john williams #across the stars #duel of the fates #battle of the heroes #music poll #star wars movies #disney star wars

[haveyouheardthisband]

#Roots Rock #Americana #Film Score #Film Soundtrack #Soundtrack #Blues #1970s #1980s #1990s #USA #poll #Spotify

[king-crawler]

Is there a music analysis of Wreck-It Ralph anywhere? (I'm sure there is) Cuz I've been listening to the soundtrack and ... EHEHHEHEH.. I love musical character motifs

I made a short video on an example I especially liked between Vanellope and King Candy :)

Basically he STOLE her leitmotif, like he stole everything else of hers

#🎬 #More editing practice ... #analysis #I could probably go further into why each instrument embodies the characters so well but I'm more of a visual art person lol #also it was so hard to remake king candy's melody bc its so off-beat #music analysis #score analysis #wreck it ralph #King candy #vanellope von schweetz #vanellope #King candybug #kcb #music #OST #Film score #video

[valya-dudycz-lupescu]

Musings on Ice-Pick Joe

I'm not sure why no one is talking about Ice-Pick Joe's death scene, especially with rumors of the Ice-Pick Joe prequel circulating the internet.

The scene where Ice-Pick Joe walked by Sofia's window on his way to the fateful meeting with Katya, stopping to lean against the light post long enough to see two silhouettes come together. (I can't be the only one who was getting Blue Velvet vibes in that scene?) Why isn't anyone talking about his longing? The voyeurism? His fear of abandonment stemming from childhood trauma...after all, his mother picked him, of all his siblings, to leave at the orphanage! She left him with nothing but those appleseeds that he carried around in his pockets.

I'm absolutely sure that Sofia was the unnamed child in Joe's flashback (Jodie Foster was so good as the scrappy, androgynous best friend. She did have a limp in that scene when they were running from the cemetery. We don't actually know at what age Sofia lost her leg. And Donny Osmond was the perfect young Ice-Pick Joe!)

If you watch closely, she had the same birthmark on her shoulder in that first awkward kiss scene that Sofia had when she and Katya fought that night of her birthday, when she ripped her blouse and threw her glass of champagne at the wall.)

But back to Joe on the empty street, those shadows against the wall like shadow puppets, and the way the clock motif came back at that moment? Such haunting music, reprised again in the film score during Joe's death (I still cry when I hear "The Demise of Ice-Pick Joe". Linking to it here, because I played it on repeat when the movie was over. Brilliant and haunting.)

Remember how the flashbacks showed us that Ice-Pick Joe was really superstitious and believed that he had inherited his grandmother's gifts? If you watch the way Joe looks at the shadows and then down at his watch, you can see him hesitate before going to the docks. Was he hearing voices?

Most people agree that the shadows on the wall looked like a child, but I'm not sure that Ice-Pick Joe's hesitation to go to the dock was about his own son. I think the shadows looked more like that kiss flashback when he and Sofia were children. The frame and perspective are almost the same angle, as if they are being watched from below.

Either way, he is clearly making the choice to leave the past behind that brings him to his tragic and senseless death.

I would love to know what happened that took that gentle young Joe who loved to sing and turned him into the tortured stoic we meet in Goncharov, the only affection reserved for his cat, Mrs. Claws.

(I can't help but wonder if they meant for her to be an echo of Le Befana, the Italian winter witch-goddess who sometimes gets translated as Mrs. Claus? After all, his mama's last words to him when she kissed him goodbye were, "If you're a very good boy, maybe La Befana will bring you to a new home on Epiphany morning, a warm home full of food and presents." Poor Joe never finds that home.) You know, I think that was the first time I heard about Le Befana, and that was one of the inspirations that led me down the road to my own version of Mother Christmas.

Does anyone know if it's true that the Ice-Pick Joe prequel got permission to use "Hotel California" as its theme song? I wonder if we're going to get the story of his time as an unskilled laborer in the vineyards of Napa in the 60s? I was never clear about how he got to America and then back to Italy with a small fortune and hitman skills? They're saying it's like Better Call Saul meets the Sopranos meets Twin Peaks. I'm here for it, especially if they can get Cole Sprouse to play young Ice-Pick Joe.

#goncharov 1973 #goncharov #ice pick joe #soundtrack #film score #meowmeow #jodie foster #John Cazale #cole sprouse #martin scorsese #katya michailov #goncharov fanart #mother christmas #la befana #mrs. claws #cats of goncharov #prequel #donny osmond #sofia #ice-pick joe #Youtube #unreality #gonchposting

[the-diseased-one]

guys GUYS

tbosas ends with the same musical piece as mockingjay pt 1.

both movies end with snow on top this is DISGUSTING im OBSESSED

#i literally gasped in the theatre #the hunger games #thg #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #james newton howard #film score #lucy gray baird #coriolanus snow

[aemeth1]

Brandon Robert's score for Motherland Fort Salem is truly amazing and I was sad how little of it is available. So I did my best to extract and denoise one of my favorites: the piece during the Raylla phonecall in S2EP9 when Scylla first introduces us to Morrigan's Whisper. Enjoy! ❤️

#motherland fort salem #raylla #raelle collar #scylla ramshorn #film score #amalia holm #taylor hickson #morrigan's whisper

[theartfulv]

Going on here to see if anyone has any music/score suggestions for the poltergeist at Aickmere’s (specifically when they try to escape and Lucy falls into the prison)??

I’ve been trying to find the right music but haven’t found any that suit it, I’ve looked through all of the Lockwood & Co. Soundtrack and I’m not sure if this makes sense but none of them seem very poltergeisty, like the floors just been ripped up from under you?

Hoping that this is slightly coherent, my brain is flooded with different film and tv scores all mashed together 😭

#lockwood and co #animatic #film score #music suggestions #locknation #the hollow boy

[mikrokosmos]

Fendrix - Soundtrack for the film Poor Things (2023)

I've probably said this before but I usually don't post film music on this blog. Mainly because it's questionable how much a score for a film could be considered "classical" or of the classical tradition. On the one hand, the kinds of genre and styles used for films, and the specific function of the music as accentuating or being part of the overall finished work of the film makes it out to be its own unique genre. On the other hand, classical composers in history have written incidental music for stage plays as well as scores for films, from early / classic film scores by Saint-Saëns or Prokofiev or later in the century by Takemitsu or Glass and going through to today. Regardless I had heard this music before seeing the film Poor Things and was immediately taken in. I loved it so much that I was disappointed that it did not win the Oscar for best film score this weekend (though I won't complain much because the winning score by Ludwig Göransson for Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer was evocative and intense so it was worthy of the award and praise). Still I have a soft spot for Jerskin Fendrix's imaginative and otherworldly music fitting for the equally "otherworldly" and fantastical atmosphere that the world of Poor Things tries to evoke. Yorgos Lanthimos is one of my favorite living directors and I was excited to see this film, even moreso after hearing the score. While I love the exuberant style, unique cinematography, and the dreamlike images, I will admit I was somewhat disappointed by the film overall (I didn't love it as much as I did his 2018 film The Favourite), and am still uneasy and disturbed by the subject matter and implications of an infant/prepubescent mind developing in the body of an adult woman, and all of the uncomfortable sex scenes and conversations as the film goes along. Still, I do love this score as a stand-alone album. Bella's theme is awkward, slightly out of tune and discordant, conveying the kind of naivety, curiosity, and somewhat self consciousness of being a "child" trying to understand the world they live in. The score continues with keyboard textures, detuned harps and winds, scratchy violins, vocalized oos and ahs, creating a lot of artificial and even alien sounds that disorients the listener in the same way that the wide lenses and porthole shots disorient the viewer. And later in the film (mild spoiler alert) when "Bella's" "real husband" arrives, we are made to feel sick and unsettled by the low frequency pulsing that makes us dread his arrival. A lot of textures and harmonies are unexpected in ways that make me wish Stravinsky were still alive so he could hear and share his thoughts. I especially thought of Stravinsky with my personal favorite track, "Portuguese Dance II", with violent and punchy, comically disturbed accordion chords that open into a catchy dance tune which may as well have come from one of his ballets. This same music gets its own awkward dance scene (another Lanthimos trademark) with Emma Stone's Bella and Mark Ruffalo's despicable Duncan. Again this is a bit different from my usual posts but regardless I hope you can enjoy the bizarre and wonderful soundworld that Fendrix created for this film.

#classical #classical music #film music #film score #soundtrack #Poor Things #Yorgos Lanthimos #Emma Stone #Willem Dafoe #Mark Ruffalo #Ramy Youssef #Christopher Abbott #Jerskin Fendrix #oscars #oscar nomination #oscars 2024 #Spotify

[daily-film-score]

𝔻𝕒𝕪 𝟜

#film score #imdb socialstuck #imdb cloutchase #genius socialstuck #genius cloutchase #socialstuck #socialstuck cloutchase #cloutchase

[bridoesotherjunk]

I don't wanna be rude, but Sony- can we get the original Venom theme back for Venom 3?

The one from the 2018 Venom film. It was just such a good score, the theme for Venom and the symbiotes in general was so nice.

I like Venom 2, but that was my one complaint was the score. It kind of got rid of some of that sci-fi sounding synthesizer and the electric guitar. Venom 2 almost had more of a film noir type score. I just really would love that original theme to come back for Venom 3.

Tom Hardy probably doesn't have much influence over the composers they pick for the movies, so I am asking Sony specifically.

#Venom #Venom 3 #Venom 2 #Venom theme #venom symbiote #symbrock #sony #veddie #venom let there be carnage #marvel #Music #Film score #ost #Venom soundtrack #Tom Hardy

[k-wame]

SALTBURN - VINYL SOUNDTRACK via @sonysoundtracks TikTok

#the label being the bathtub drain!🗣️📢💯the coolest shit fr #only thing cooler is setting a dead hot wife montage to 'the summer burned on' - game changing goat shit in my book #saltburn #saltburn 2023 #oliver quick #music #barry keoghan #anthony willis #emerald fennell #soundstrack #vinyl #musicblr #cinemagraph #film score #original motion picture score #london contemporary orchestra

[haveyouheardthisband]

#Electronic #Moogsploitation #Baroque Music #Film Score #Progressive Electronic #Film Soundtrack #1960s #1970s #USA #poll

[memorabi1ia]

Challengers (2024)

#music #trent reznor #atticus ross #new music #challengers #movies #film score #nin #nine inch nails #trent reznor and atticus ross #null corporation #hologram parade #luca guadagnino #original score #the null corporation #trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

[lazyasriel]

currently going insane about the httyd film score again. It’s amazing how you can tell exactly what’s going on just by listening to the music.

Currently listening to the score for the second film score and it got to a battle scene and at first you have hiccup and toothless’ themes mixed together while they’re fighting and then things go wrong and you hear it in the music. Then his dad’s motif plays as the scene focuses on him, then his mum’s motif as she leads out the dragons. And then their marriage motif plays as they help Hiccup together.

AND YOU CAN TELL ALL OF THIS JUST FROM THE MUSIC

Leitmotifs man - gets me every time

John Powell you fucking legend

#httyd #httyd 2 #hiccup and toothless #httyd hiccup #film score #movie score #leitmotif #composition #john powell

[tllgrrl]

Anyone living in New York going to this?

The New York Philharmonic will be presenting Black Panther in Concert, where they’ll be playing the movie Black Panther and the score will be played LIVE by the Phil and Special Guests.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic has done this sort of thing at the Hollywood Bowl, and I believe at Disney Concert Hall as well.

Anyway, you know how I feel about the score.

This is happening Dec 20-23 2023.

I’m already jealous of anyone who gets to go to this concert.

(Kinda wishing they’d do this at the Hollywood Bowl. I’d maybe do a road trip)

#new york philharmonic #marvel studios #ludwig goransson #black Panther in concert #live music #film score #performed live with the movie #like 🤯

[anna-jupe]

"Rafe" Score Analysis

There's so much we can learn about Rafe through his song on the obx soundtrack. It really is a window into his mind and body and I think it's so interesting and underrated, so I decided to break it down for anyone that might care lol >>

The first 55 seconds are very anticipatory. The music is very shaky and unstable, and it seems like it's on the verge of breaking. It shows so well how Rafe feels when he begins to get angry- out of control, red slowly seeping into his vision.

Around 0:55, we hear this sliding dissonance come in that's so ugly. It really shows a shift in Rafe's mental state. He goes from on edge and frantic to pure, unadulterated and quite scary anger. The strings become less shaky and more purposeful. High and screeching, coupled with the dark and brooding sound underneath. We flip-flop between the two and it's sensory overload, showing how Rafe can get caught up in the battle within his mind. Going back and forth between his head and his heart, nearly all consumed with psychotic rage.

Then we get this awful dissonance again around 1:50 that you can't help but love, which leads into a break at 2:05. This is what I like to think is his snap. Rafe's anger takes over and he's seeing red.

From 2:05 to 3:10, we're fully experiencing these emotions with Rafe. The music transports us into his body and I feel like this section is his actions, when he's doing something so against his conscience it would rip a normal person apart.

The breathing: adrenaline through his veins, his breath quickening

The drums: his heart beat is pounding, loud and irregular

The slides: Rafe's ears ringing

The rhythm of the melody: His muscles jerking and tensing suddenly as he sees red

The pitches: both the melody and bass notes gradually step up a scale. This shows how his emotions continue to ramp up and take over.

Then we have Rafe post-action, from around 3:10-3:59. This is when the weight of what he's done seeps in. The dissonance creates a sense of anxiety that Rafe is feeling as he tries to rationalize what just happened and figure out how to cover it up. It's so oddly sad, like he might be feeling almost a sense of regret for a second?

But then at 4:05 a dark brooding sound seeps back in and we know he's made the decision to go further down this psychotic path. It ends with these super ugly, discordant pitches that leave us knowing that something bad is going to happen. It's very unpredictable and anxiety inducing.

I'm definitely not a professional but those are just things I personally heard and how I interpret them to better understand how scary of a character Rafe really is haha. I'd love to hear you guys' thoughts!!

#obx #outer banks #rafe cameron #film score #drew starkey #rafe obx #outerbanks rafe