Music in movies

When I was child, my favourite movie was High school musical.

High School Musical made 2008 and it’s a popular movie from Disney. I always loved music scenes in High school musical movies, Because they are so amazing and it’s also compelling, because I always wanna sing when I hear a song from movie. But now, I want to show you the trailer from High school musical 3. In this movie was a lot of awesome music scenes so it was really hard to choose something a particular scene, because every music scenes is so amazing in this movie. So I decided to choose the trailer from High school Musical 3!

 

Movies would be boring without any music

I watched fast and furious 7 again, because it’s my favourite movie. In this movie was lot of music but the most memorable scence was plane scence. In this scence cars were falling from an airplane and music was backround. There isn’t lyrics in this clip, but it was “acoustic” exciting music.
I think music fits this scence very well because it gave the scence more exciting impression. And music get me enthusiastic and I wanted to know quickly what was going to happen next in this movie. Without it the scence would be little bit boring.

Halfman’s Song

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Go watch/listen it here.

This haunting piece of art (made by a C-list musician on the internet) is a tribute to a character in the TV-series “Game of Thrones”. The character in question–Tyrion Lannister–is a halfman who was born with three curses: He is a dwarf. His mother died giving him birth. His family is rich and proud and doesn’t accept him as a personal and respectable being.

That being said, I can understand the reasoning behind the idea to use a very poetic and a haunting setting for the song. It gives off a vibe as if it was actually sung in the drunkard halls of taverns and keeps in the world of Westeros. The wording itself switches between poetic and imperative styles. It never becomes dull and the poetry in the wording keeps the song sharp as a blade.

How I feel about the song’s words is another thing coming. I love the arrogant but smart words that are used to simulate what Tyrion would sing. The composer didn’t make it a musical, since Tyrion isn’t a pretty faced singer but a sharp-tongued drunkard in the middle of the grey area of morality.

Poetry is a powrful way of giving a song meaning. Since art itself is not easily defined, even imperative words can be poetic. If you think it’s poetic, then it propably is. If you don’t, it’s propably not. At least to you. How you like your peas in your porridge is up to you.

Relaxed urgency

The Intouchables tells a moving story about a quadriplegic man, who’s mental confinement to his home and old ways get raveled once he hires the most unlikely candidate as his assistant.
A complete clip from the movie was unavailable, so I’ll link the song below and describe the scene it’s in.
While speeding through the Parisian early morning traffic in a Maserati, the main duo create an atmosphere which has deeply sunk into my mind. The dark morning and street lights set up a stage which leaves the viewer in a relaxed state. After a while of dodging between cars, the duo gets stopped by the police and have to make their way out of a sticky situation.
The scene’s set already works on it’s own with the colours and calm atmosphere, so the song only adds to it. Fly by Italian composer Ludivico Einaudi features piano and some strings which gives it a very simple feel which is easy on the ears, yet the way they play from pianissimo to forte gives it grandeur to remind the listener that this isn’t just an insignificant song. It also brings a certain desperation to the song. This feeling is increased with the use of very high notes that hop to very low ones. Also the speed of the notes that are played shifts it’s emotion from relaxed to almost urgent. Einaudi used echo and repetition as ways of emphasizing the calmness in the middle of chaos which is seen in the movie. The same type of original compositions are used throughout the movie.

The Good The Bad The known.

This piece of movie music is the champagne of western films. ” The good the bad the known” is the theme to 1966 movie of the same name. If some one comes to you and whistle to me a tune that is western inspirational they most likely whistle this.

The song is composed by Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai in 1966. The song sits the movie well because it brings something extra to the movie, something unpredictable. The movie starts whit this song. This is maybe because it is a earworm. The viewer hears this and he/she right away gets the feeling that he/she is in the wild west.

The movie theme was a hit when it “came out.” The soundtrack (the good the bad the ugly)  peaked number four on the Billboard 200 album list in 1966 and stayed there for a year. This is really good for a song that originally was made only for a movie.

Well everybody can agree whit me that this piece of music is the sole to western genre movies.

 

Music in movies

 

The Jaws theme song is one of the most famous horror movies, and it’s music is iconic to the genre. The movie is directed by Steven Spielberg, and the soundtrack is composed by John Williams. Jaws was published in 1975.

“Get Out of the Water” is the first scene where the theme music is playing. Even though the screaming  children are playing and seem happy, the atmosphere is tense because the watcher knows that there is something dangerous in the water. When the infamous theme song starts playing, we know that game is over.

The piece consists mostly of two notes played over and over again with a rising tempo. The minor scale gives negative associations, and the change in tempo is what makes the atmosphere shift  from tense to threatening  and intense, which is typical for thriller and horror movies.

Without the music, the viewers would not know when the scary part is actually coming. In modern horror films this is used to startle the watchers. Older movies tend to rely on the power of music.

 

–Otso

Pippin’s song

Pippin’s song or Edge of the night is a short piece of music that appears in the movie “The Fellowship of the ring” but is originally taken from Tolkiens poem “Walking song” that is actually in the first book. It all comes from the last stanza, though some lines are skipped, and some are slightly rewritten.

The piece is  part of a bigger “The Steward of Gondor”, which was written by Howard Shore and arranged by Philippa Boyens. The song is called “The Edge of Night” after a phrase in the lyrics. Its melody was composed by Billy Boyd, who plays Pippin. This is where the piece  gets the more commonly used name “Pippin’s song”.

The song is of sorrow and longing but also adventure. It is a comforting song for the character of Pippin but it brings memories of the past and fears for the future. In fact the song was never meant to be in the scene nor the whole movie, but Billy Boyd felt it fit the scene and would create more drama and deepen the atmosphere.

 

Inception

Inception is a pretty good movie. One of the reasons is the way the movie uses music. One of my favorite scene is the ending, I think the music really makes the ending great.

The music for this movie was written by Hans Zimmer and the name of the song in the end is Time. This movie is really dramatic and you don’t always know what is going on, even in the ending. I think the music is perfect because it doesn’t give anything away. It complaments the scene perfectly.

In the end we are not sure if the main character is going to have a happy ending or not. Everything seems good but you can’t really be sure. The music makes it seem like everything is done now, it is all over, but at one point the music stops and it seems like everything is great, until the very last bit when the music starts playing again, and again we don’t know what is going on. There isn’t a lot of dialogue in the end, but the music makes up for that. The music makes the story go forward. It is the perfect thouch to a complex scene like this.

POEMS IN MUSIC

I want to talk about an italian song called “Io non mi sento italiano” written by Giorgio Gaber. I already knew this song but I started to appreciate it more since I live in Finland because it’s a a poetry dedicated to Italians and all their problems.The meaning of the song would be like that in the world Italians are appreciated because we come from a wonderfull place and because we have the best food,but at the same time we have big problems in our country and everyone knows that. Here the singer says that he doesn’t fell like an italian but that fortunatley or unfortunatly he is.Well that’s the same feeling that I have since I live here because sometimes I’m really proud about my country and my people and sometimes i think that maybe It would have been better If I had born somewhere else. I think that song which look like poetries are even better than the poetries because it’s easier to follow them even if they treat about difficult arguments and because you can memorize them easily. I love to listen to a poetry with music while when I listen to a normal poetry with no sound at all I just fell kind of bored.

Music and movies – Harry Potter

I wanted to choose one of the Harry Potter movies for this task, because I love the movies and I adore the soundtracks!

In this scene from the final movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, the main trio is seen running through the castle yard, where wizards and witches are fighting one another. The scene shares a name with the song playing in the background: Courtyard Apocalypse. The music in the whole movie was composed and conducted by Alexandre Desplat.

Just like the scene wouldn’t be tragic enough, the music adds a sad, dark feeling to it. This kind of dramatic orchestra music is not rare for the Harry Potter movies. I chose this scene because in this particular scene the music is very important, because there isn’t much talking. Without music the scene would feel empty, because in the scene the fighting of the main trio isn’t personal, they’re just passing through the courtyard towards another location. The music brings up the scene and makes it more memorable, the melody is quite catchy. Adding this dramatic music to the scene also tells that the fight, even though the main character flees from it, is very important and big.

 

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_the_Harry_Potter_films
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