Sounds daft doesn't it, but you've seen both Mark so you can vouch for me and many others sharing these examples.ĭavid Fincher's Seven springs to mind. The opening shot of desert in There Will Be Blood Mulholland Drive's Twinkies's Diner scene When asked what the scariest things i've witnessed in films my answers are: At the time I couldn't explain why but I know what I felt.Īnderson and Greenwood create an nightmarish illogical atmosphere that penetrates almost on a subconscious level much like Ingmar Bergman similarly created with his films Persona and Hour of the Wolf. On opening night as the film's title card vanished and Greenwood's music seeps into the film with the accompanying wide angle lens showing us the vast California hills.I've never been so terrified in the cinema. There Will Be Blood, with its melding of sound and image is all those things and to sum it up simply just witness the opening 20 seconds as the perfect example.
The results or baffling, sensational, unnerving, and downright terrifying. The comment above mine just beat me to mention Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, a film (particularly in it's opening silent monologue but throughout) shows you images that with silence would have you in neutral but with the addition of the Greenwood's music manipulates the viewer's reaction. On top of this the songs from Buddy Holly and Lonnie Donegan would seem out of place, but instead they contribute to the sense of anxiety that is present throughout the whole film.Īlso thanks to that film I will never hear Wham's 'Last Christmas' the same ever again. All of this creates an eerie tension that would, in my opinion, have otherwise been lacking in the picture had there been a more 'traditional' score. Another moment that springs to mind is when Kevin is eating the pickled onions as the noise is amplified to a grotesque extent to allow the audience to feel the irritation and disgust of Eva. The perfect example of this being in the opening as the score seems to encompass the noise of what is later revealed to be the sprinkler outside. Jonny Greenwood's minimalist score of strange electronic, yet ethereal sounds almost seamlessly blend in with the diegetic noises. It might be slightly out of left field, but the film that has drawn my attention to the sound the most over the past few years is Dr Kermode's best film of 2011- We Need To Talk About Kevin. I was about to dither about a list of Russell's including Tommy and Mahler then realized Altered States is the daddy in terms of your question, though you couldn't go far wrong with much of Ken's catalogue. In a slightly similar vein, that is communication pared to the bare minimum with natural sound, and striking visuals, Nic Roeg's Walkabout.įrom the natural to the thoroughly un- Tetsuo: The Iron Man, not a film I ever warmed to, but undoubtedly has a soundtrack to match its weird body horror nightmare visuals.Īltered States Ken Russell's visuals a vocabulary of hallucination, religion, lust, taboo and the ultimate, with John Corrigliano's amazing discordant soundtrack which resolves into one of the most tender love themes in film. Stunning cinematography and the sparseness of natural sound, the wind, water and whinnying. The Black Stallion springs to mind with its long wordless section of boy and horse stranded, magical expression of non verbal communication between species. I selfishly hope you'll repeat the Blackmail silent with N Brand score at a future New Forest Film Festival.
0 kommentar(er)
