It is something that has been used since the beginning of movie making. It has helped set the tone, stir excitement and tension in the audience, create a sense of sadness or tremendous joy and give the moviegoers a piece of the movie that they will be able to take with them and hold onto forever. Music in film has had an endless number of incredible effects on how epic or just average a movie can be. Typically, it results in the former and helps us as the audience connect with the movie even more due to a wonderfully thought out and pitch perfect soundtrack that makes the movie's emotions come alive as though they are our own. For me personally, when I am experiencing a film, I feel as though the music the film is set to begins to surround me and dance around my head, engulfing my entire being into being there, in that very moment in the film, with those people. I'm sure that my passion for acting helps me to be overly sensitive to this kind of reaction to all these different, amazing forms of art overtaking me at once, but I still feel that no matter what your passions in life are, that a good set of tunes to go along with a movie will impact anyone. Something else that a great movie accompanied by great music does, is that it in some way you will always retain a connection between the two. For example, whenever I hear the song "Don't You" by Simple Minds, I automatically think of the '80s classic, The Breakfast Club, as I'm sure most people would. Other pieces of music that leave an imprint in your mind forever can even be something like the chilling and villainous two-note Jaws theme. The list goes on and on, but the fact will always remain that the music in a film has much more to do with the entire experience than, I believe, more people realize. Just think about it the next time you start humming a tune and see if it does not happen to show up in one of Hollywood's numerous hits or iconic classics.
- Courtney
(b.t.w. to check out a clip from Breakfast Club featuring the memorable music of Simple Minds ,just go to www.youtube.com and enter "The Breakfast Club- Ending Scene" in the search box. Enjoy!)
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I totally agree with your blog, certain songs always stick in my head, and whenever I hear them again whether in other movies or on the radio, it always brings up the movie I had seen with that particular song.
ReplyDeleteI have the same feeling as you do with this subject. There are some songs out there that I totally connect with because of the movie influence. One song that does it for me is “Stuck in the Middle with you” by Stealers Wheel. Every time I hear that song, I cannot help but think of that scene in Reservoir Dogs. Anyone who has seen that movie, knows what scene I am talking about. Another song that totally does it for me, which I wish it wouldn’t, is “Goodbye Horses” by Garvey from Silence of the Lambs. That is one of the exceptions where I wish I did not have the visual of the movie whenever I hear that song. I believe that soundtracks can be one of the greatest aspects of movies. They totally add another layer to the movie that helps the audience connect with the movie better. One of my favorite soundtracks ever is the Dazed & Confused soundtrack. I believe that soundtrack helps the audience get into the mind set of living in 1976, and it has so many great songs. I look forward to following this blog!
ReplyDeleteI really liked reading what you had to say about music in movies. I feel the same way. I love the Jaws theme you mentioned. =] There are many songs that have been used over and over in films and it only shows how powerful those songs can be. One of the songs I love is "WOuldn't it be nice" by the Beach Boys. Whenever I hear that song I think of the movie The Bubble Boy. And another song I really like is "I don't wanna miss a thing" which reminds me of the movies Blades of Glory and Armageddon. =]
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