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#21 - Film Scores | April 3, 2020
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April 03, 2020 - 10 Facts About Film Scores.
Today is National Film Score day.
Here are 10 intense facts about film scores that you didn’t know, that you didn’t need to know:
- It’s said that film scores weren’t originally artistic, they were needed to drown the noise made by the projector.
- In those times, there were no sound-absorbent walls between the projection machine and the auditorium.
- Up until 1929, many film scores were performed live by real musicians
- either a pianist improvises to the film or a small ensemble of musicians performs a classical piece
- During silent film
- Many scores are reused.
- Nino Rota was eliminated from Oscar competition, because he had used the "Theme from THE GODFATHER" in a previous score.
- Hans Zimmer claimed to have heard an important musical segment from The Dark Knight Rises (2012) in a dream.
- “I dreamt that whole sort of insane Bane opus. And, so I wrote it out, and went to Warner Brothers and said 'You know, I had this idea, and I don’t know if it’s going to work,'”
- Max Steiner, “The Father of Film Music” Steiner made first use of leitmotif (late motif) in 1933 score for King Kong.
- A Late Motif is a recurrent piece of music associated with a particular person, idea, or situation.
- Probably the best known leitmotif in film is John Williams' shark leitmotif in Jaws.
- JAWS, Star Wars, and Harry Potter were all composed by the same composer:
- John Williams
- He also composed E.T., Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, and Superman (81)
- The Imperial March wasn’t originally in Star Wars
- Darth Vader's Theme
- wasn't actually written until the second film
- You won’t hear it in a New Hope
- The soundtrack to the Exorcist contains the sounds of angry bees
- It was an attempt to make the sound track scarier
- The buzzing of bees triggers an innate fear response in most people
- They also included ominous industrial sounds
- The famous murder scene for Psycho was originally planned to be without music
- Made by Bernard Herrmann
- Is now known as the definitive sound of horror music
- The score for Braveheart did not have any bagpi pes
- They are actually Irish Uillean Pipes (ill in)
- The main player of these pipes was also featured in the titanic soundtrack
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