Film Scores: The Music Can Make a Difference

 When you watch a film, it will have some kind of music playing in attempt to heighten the ability to convey something over to the viewer, but does it really do anything? Personally, I consider it a mixed experience of what works to help strengthen the viewer’s ability to be entranced by the film they’re watching, a whole world is dependent on how the film’s score is produced and below. I’m listing the four film scores that helped form the world we saw on screen and found the music recognisable to think “I’ll remember that,” because music is everything sometimes to make a film (regardless of its quality) memorable.

George Lucas’s: Star Wars

I’ll go with original naming conventions when I refer to “A New Hope” as it makes sense to refer to it like that. John Williams, the epic composer, the grandeur of what great music can become just as memorable as the film itself. Who else could produce such material? The answer is a simple “not a chance”.

Ridley Scott’s: Blade Runner

A soundtrack that can make the world on screen have a soul is a marvellously rare thing, and Vangelis score for the film was part of the reason I love it. You feel alone, you feel a sense of hope and you feel a lot of things when you watch a film where the music imbued it with a meaning—a soul you could say—it had so much throughout and when the credits play the music keeps on turning the gears of your mind to think over the sense mystery we’re left with.

David Lynch’s: Dune

David Lynch, may’ve given us a film that in all honesty required the viewer to have knowledge of the first book to get their head around half of what was said on screen (and half of what wasn’t), but going against everything we consider about the film ability to convey the book’s plot—sad as it was—it was a good film where the casting, set design, costumes and the point of this article the film score itself. Toto were behind this unsung gems of film scores (personal opinion) out of its ability to entrance me into seeing a world where fantasy and sci-fi walked as one; the music did something to convey that—not epic—but something along the lines of how vast the universe is (the film is set on a planet known as Arakkis).

Tim Burton’s: Batman

“Super classic of the late 80’s!” I call out on the thought of how cool the early 90’s series of Batman: The Animated Series was when they used part of the soundtrack composed by Danny Elfman who will have constant work as long as Tim Burton needs a film to be scored. And before you assume, I’m not complaining because that makes it all the more epic for so many reasons.

Thought of the Day: September 8th:

Instead of calling them Throwing Stars refer to them as Pieces of metal you propel through the use of your arm. Because we all know that’s a lot less complicated to confuse with actual stars.