something about the soundtrack during the basketball scenes really got to me. Like in the beginning or in the pickup game on the street they have these trumpets on the background... I don't know how to describe it but I just think it was really well put-together. It is a basketball movie after all so I think they did it on purpose... it sounds almost like a ballet when they're playing out there on the street... I guess that's the beauty of the game.
shareI didn't like the music at all, that symphonic music was just out of rhythm with the game. The pace of a basketball game is never like that. I don't like rap music too much, but it suits the basketball game and I can't find any music more appropriate for it. And1 movies are great, that's the only place I can enjoy rap music.
shareI thought Aaron Copeland's score was great. It was a little bit unusual to not hear rap music during basketball, but I thought it worked well.
Being inconsistent is better than being consistently bad.
Think he was using the score to place the film as a modern day epic.
"America - the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
It wasn't a "score." Copeland died many years ago, and Lee likely chose his work because they're probably in the public domain.
shareYeah, I thought the soundtrack was unusual too. It reminded me of The Natural and I thought Spike Lee was trying to do the same thing with basketball as Barry Levinson was doing with baseball--show beauty and poetry, drench it all with the feeling of a great American tradition. It was a bit jarring but kind of cool too.
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