Worst musical score ever?

Oh come on... you must be joking!
What is it that you disliked about it?

Horrible score, horrible sound

just a bad film

4/10

When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...

Yeah, that Debussy was a real hack.

Or, more likely, you're an idiot.

One of the hurdles with Savage Messiah is coming to it with the appropriate perspective. If you look at the production values and so on and compare it against a mainstream film, there are things you could quibble about. But doing so maybe runs the danger of missing the oeuvre (of which Savage Messiah is, I think, one of the greatest example) completely.

One wouldn't watch a Godard and complain it didn't entertain. Or a Brechtian-influenced work and complain that you didn't feel lost in the storyline and characters to the point where you forgot you were in a cinema.

Russell's work is heavily influenced by Antonin Artaud's theory of film, and I'd recommend a brief examination of the latter's thought for anyone seriously struggling to get into Russell's work.

The score in Savage Messiah, like the insistent polemics of the protagonist, is in a way (at least for me) attacking the audience. Just as Gaudier himself sought to rip the facade of nice comfo9rtable art. The worst thing you could say about Savage Messiah viewed n that way might be that it is 'nice.' Gaudier - and to an extent Russell - demand that you love or hate the work but not worship it. It attempts to connect at a very visceral level, if necessary overwhelming the viewer with sensory data.

One can imagine a big studio remake that would destroy its worth, if please the box office. Just as today you can see many 'artworks' that draw on Gaudier's forms but present them in a nice drawing-room style of polished perfection, totally devoid of the angry creative spirit at the heart of artistic genius.



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Err.. no. Music was very important to Ken Russell and he knew how to use it in his movies.

Debussy, Scriabin, Prokofiev are bad? Or did you mean the application of their music against the scenes was bad?