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 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 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 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.