Less dyofh, more dyofj. Film buffs unite to help me out

retired_kaioo_ken · 10-10-2007, 06:10 PM

Good shout with the Good The Bad and The Ugly. Possibly even better for me is the showdown at (near) the end of Once Upon A Time In The West, as the harmonica connects the music to what is actually happening on the screen. Ennio Morricone/Sergio Leone combo - :thup:

retired_Angela Adams · 10-10-2007, 06:22 PM

There's a very good use of music in one scene in The Departed where they show a number of murder scenes back to back. Can't find linkage of it on youtube.

retired_nabrooks · 10-10-2007, 06:30 PM

Quote:

- Childhood flashback scene, perhaps a traumatic one

Butterfly Effect, kiddy fiddling firework scene or dog in the bag

Quote:

- Surreal capers

Brazil, angel scenes or Twin Peaks dreams.

retired_amadhani · 10-10-2007, 06:38 PM

28 days later is the obvious one.

retired_miki57 · 10-10-2007, 06:47 PM

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Originally posted by ceefax the cat:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Tanman007:
The whole score from Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo by Bernard Hermann. In fact any of his scores for Hitchock. Eeringly beautiful. Works so well with; - Surreal capers
- Ratcheting up tension, such as before a big race or some other climactic event.

Good, very good. And Requiem For A Dream is a damn good shout, cheers. </BLOCKQUOTE>
Scene D'amour , this piece in particular I used to listen to on repeat. Very beautiful piece of music. I have the original recording on mp3 format as well.

I was thinking for the tension bit, the theme to Psycho is pretty hard to beat.

retired_steevo93 · 10-10-2007, 07:02 PM

And then there's Jaws, if we're trotting off the classics.

My favourite bits of soundtracking are the more surreal connections with the film. For a scene of intense violence, for example, it seems logical to have violent-sounding music, with lots of dynamics. Often though, you can achieve a more powerful emotional effect by juxtaposing the violence with something else. That scene in The Battleship Potemkin is a classic example. Hell breaking loose on screen, but an eerily calm soundtrack. Whether it's still a surreal connection with the action in slow-mo is debatable though.

retired_shacor · 10-10-2007, 11:28 PM

Childhood: The chicken beheading in Haneke's Cache.

Desolate: The final few moments of Safe. Just the bleakness of Julianne Moore's withdrawal into abject isolation. See also Samantha Morton at the end of Code 46.

Powerful: The swirling music that accompanies the girls dancing at the summit just as we lose them in The Picnic at Hanging Rock. The mystery, the sensuality, the primal nature of the situation, it's intoxicating.

Surreal: Screaming at me Coen brothers. The supermarket hold-up in Raising Arizona? The bowling bit in The Big Lebowski?

Tension: Famous tennis match sequence in Strangers on a Train where the crowd follows the ball, left to right, right to left, but the killer's stare remains fixed on his target. Aped by Scorcese in Cape Fear. Would be ideal for this? Very cinematic, no dialogue.

If any of these interest you, I can get clips.