Superb Vivek Maddala score!
I love the excellent Vivek Maddala score that was created for the DVD release of this movie. It's perfectly complimentary in every way, not to mention also beautiful and compelling. Great job!
shareHeartily agree genplant29! This score enhanced the movie so much, it is hard to imagine how much less I would have liked it if I had watched it in the Alamo Theater in Cooper, Texas (near where I live) in 1928 with a crude piano score plunked out by a 3rd rate musician. And maybe with somebody in the seats reading the captions out loud to one or more nearly illiterate companions. That's the way most movie-goers of the era experienced these wonderful silents when they were new. That always occurs to me when I watch these old silents with the terrific new scores.
He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good... St. Matthew 5:45
Very true. Difference in what music is playing to accompany a Silent movie certainly can - and DOES - significantly impact the viewing experience, as I've experienced with various movies that I've first seen (or at least first seen in recent years) on a budget DVD, on which some either completely inappropriate, or, otherwise, insipid, and/or however else lacking, newly tacked on "score" accompanied the film, then have later seen and experienced the same movie with a flawlessly spot-on orchestral, small ensemble, piano, or whatever other type, score composed expressly for it, and the difference in the viewing experience is the difference between night and day. A great score - such as Vivek Maddala's for "The Mysterious Lady" - is so well integrated with mood and action and PERSONALITY of the film that it's simply a completely perfect natural fit, and like an essential character, all its own, that you just can't imagine the movie without.
shareI also agree regarding the score of this film...it's absolutely wonderful and really makes this film truly memorable.
~pemory