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Released in 2011, The Artist is a silent film that
AWESOME The Artist - Ludovic Bource
swept the Oscars that year, and also won the
award for the best original soundtrack. It is hard
to argue otherwise when you watch the movie
ORIGINAL or even just Google the soundtrack. The movie
follows the rise and fall of a famous silent film
SOUNDTRACKS actor, and the soundtrack takes you through that
journey. It makes you tap your feet with George
Valentin and the very next moment you feel
THAT the agony of him losing the grip on his career.
Music has an even greater role in silents films
and Ludovic delivers an absolute peach with
DESERVE The Artist. The film's climactic scene is set to
Bernard Herrmann's "Scène d'amour" from his
score to Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo. If you
A LISTEN like orchestral music, The Artist soundtrack
is a beatiful rendition of French and American
influences.
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Interstellar - Hans Zimmer
Jaws - John Williams
Keeping up with his reputation of churning
Released in 1975, Jaws is one of the most iconic
out mind bending movies, Cristopher Nolan
movie franchisees of all time. Apart from
made Interstellar. It was his first movie after
Spielberg’s vision behind the camera, John
the infamous Batman trilogy and this science
Williams’ Academy Award Winning score takes
fiction divided opinions like no other. What
you into a journey to the centre of the ocean.
didn’t divide opinions was the soundtrack.
Trusted with the soundtrack of another Nolan
two movies, John Williams produced some of
movie, Hans Zimmer proved why he is one of the
the most iconic tunes of an original soundtrack.
most prolific music directors of this era. Slow
Even when you hit the play button and your
and scattered, the Interstellar takes you into a Slowly building up the music throughout the
zero-gravity zone where a string of his music eyes are closed, you can feel the breathlessness
is holding you in place. You’re at the mercy of that comes with the fear of a giant killer shark
Hans Zimmer’s music and you cant help but, that is after your life. Similar to what Spielberg
be a part of Cooper’s journey back home. A does with visuals, Williams comes up with dark
beautifully shot movie loses its charm if the tones that eventually burst into your ears and
music doesn’t match the beauty of what you’re catch hold of your attention like the sharp tooth
seeing. This space epic gets a more than worthy a killer shark.
partner with organ and strings flowing fluidly
around your ears. Dunkirk - Hans Zimmer
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Released in 2017 is another Nolan masterpiece
that revolves around the World War II. A movie
The Godfather - Nino Rota
that confuse people if they blink for an extra
One of the greatest movies ever made, the
second than usual, the disjointed nature of the
Godfather trilogy is more like a tale of two
movie blends in with the soundtrack produced
movies than three. When you think about The
by the man who is a synonym to Christopher
Godfather, very few would think anything other
Nolan. Hans Zimmer’s music in this movie is
the infamous dialogue “I’ll make him an offer he
a 106-minute masterclass about how to put the
can’t refuse.” But, there is something about the
pieces of a spatially disjointed movie together
soundtrack that leaves a n impression that lasts
longer than the 177 minutes of the movie. The
space to water and the score binds all the three
movie set in the late ‘40s and there is something
storylines together by fourteen cellos and a
about the trumpet and string tones by Rota that through music. The movie goes from land to
double bass. The tension and violence of war
somehow take you out of the mean streets of that results in nothing else but demolition is
New York and calmly thump you in the lanes of ironically stitched together by Has Zimmer and
Italy. When a movie revolves around a Mafia, the his intelligent scoring. "Nimrod" from Edward
soundtrack has to constantly keep you on your Elgar's Enigma Variations was slowed down to
feet. Rota doesn’t do that with anything more six beats per minute to avoid it from sounding
than accordion driven swing music with a blend too sentimental.
of jazz with a sombre theme.
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