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Worst Musical Score Ever?

posted 11 years ago by bootblack987
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I hope that one day this movie can be re-released on DVD with a new score. I've never been so distracted and put off by a score than with this movie. Early on, the instrumentation is so obvious and overbearing, it really belittled the content of the film. Towards the end, the boppy music made me think of a Charlie Chaplin where he approaches a banana peel on the sidewalk, only to walk around it but then slip on a second banana peel. Horrible, horrible music that continually undermines the dramatic footage on screen.

[–] new318 11 years ago

are you sure you're not on crack?

[–] ElMaruecan82 11 years ago

I see what you mean, but I think the most distateful thing would have been a sort of ominous music, deliberately tragic and depressing, it would have felt just as if the directors wanted to "create an effect" while the images spoke for themselves.

In fact, I was too distracted by the music, until I realized that it was so ordinary, so random or matteroffactly that it really conveyed another dimension of the horror described in the film, the fact that it was a daily, routinely horror, that it almost became banal at a certain point, hence the use of this kind of music.

And I don't get the comparison with Chaplin, if one thing, it reminded me of the melancholic tunes of some Bergman's austere movies, somethinglike "Autumn Sonata".

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[–] chrissso 8 years ago

I completely agree ... at times there were tunes that seemed slightly upbeat and playful ... and in turn quite in appropriate. I think the best sound track is one you never notice. I continually noted this soundtrack.

[–] Traviud 8 years ago

I found it very unsettling and effective. It's matter of fact, while the images are absolutely brutal. A conscious juxtaposition.