2) What is the role of source music in Casablanca? (10 points) Source music in Casablanca is used to give a setting to a scene and portray the emotions of the characters. La Marseillaise is the French national anthem that is frequently played throughout the movie. It’s supposed to represent liberty, equality, and the Allies during WWII, which was the time period the movie is supposed to have taken place. A particular scene in which La Marseillaise had significant meaning was when German soldiers were singing the Nazi anthem in Rick’s Café and then almost the entirety of the other people in the café started to sing La Marseillaise to drown out the singing of the Germans.
Jazz music sound soft and mellow as playing on however like all music, it tells a story and here are the stories of “Fly Me to the Moon”, “Waltz for Debby” and “Ancient Memories”. “Fly Me to the Moon”, written by Bart Howard and arranged by Sammy Nestico, is an upbeat standard sung most famously by Frank Sinatra. In the instrumental version of this song, a Latin-inspired sounding consonance set the romantic mood at the beginning of this song. A piano and saxophone then alternated the melody of the song as though they were dancing like two lovers flying to the moon. As the passion of the song heated up, the texture changed within the song as the saxophone took the melody and the piano and other instruments within the ensemble were in accompaniment.
Pink Floyd were influenced by a number of artists throughout their career, helping them towards the sound they achieved on Dark Side of the Moon. Miles Davis, one of the most important musicians of the second half of the twentieth century, helped create modern jazz as we know it. It is reported that Richard Wright would often lose himself in jazz records, particularly the work of Miles Davis, through his hard bop style in the 1950’s, experimental ambient sound in the 1960’s, and his rock and funk records in the 1970’s. Wright has said himself that one of his favourite pieces ever was Miles Davis’ take on Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess from the 1959 Kind of Blue album, which was a key influence to the composition of the chord sequence which forms the song Us and Them from Dark Side of the Moon. The Beatles were a band that influenced Pink Floyd greatly in the lead up to the release of Dark Side of the Moon; most bands were influenced by the Beatles at this time.
Hyperbole is the first device that postman uses. The title Amusing Ourselves to Death is a good example. Of course it would be very difficult to actually kill yourself with amusement, but the point he is trying to get across is that our culture responds to entertainment more than to facts. He further shows how this is true in chapter 9 – Reach out and Elect Someone when he states that, “... it was not until the 1950’s that the television commercial made linguistic discourse obsolete as the basis for product decisions. By substituting images for claims, the pictorial commercial made emotional appeal, not tests of truth, the basis of consumer decisions.” (Pg.
Horner finds fresh 3-D dimensions in a score as the film is being shot in 3D film. Therefore, the music in the film is being “spectacular” which helps audiences to feel the 3D effects in fresh and realistic effect. Throughout the film, Horner gives dynamic theme through its orchestration especially by brassy sound. Horner’s brass signature is certainly apparent throughout the narrative but electronic percussion is also determinedly pattering to create listening impact when hero comes out to the world. When the film shows the montage of Peter’s becoming a Spider-Man, Horner uses fantasy score leading to a bit of worthy orchestral craziness.
Sonata form mainly focuses on the harmonic and thematic expression of music that sets the mood in the exposition. The development is contrasted and elaborated, and usually resolved with a safe sound of harmony in the end, recapitulating the main ideas. Among all of the examples we have heard in class like Mozart’s Symphony 25, or the Moonlight Sonata, I believe that Ludwig Van Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 represents sonata form with the most accuracy. The exposition of Symphony No.
With technology advancing and finally a separate and synchronised soundtrack being introduced in 1927 by Warner with the ‘Jazz Singer’. The significance of this was huge and fundamentally changed films forever. The scene I will reference for the most part of this essay will be the opening credits to ‘Once Upon A Time in the West’. Which personally I think is some of the best sound design in film I have encountered. Although there is very little actual music in the opening credits (apart from the harmonica), there is a tremendous amount of work that been put into the sound design.
This Movie being a psychological “thriller” you would think the ending would leave viewers with a mindset of us making are own prediction of what was going to happen next. That’s what seems to be theme at least up until the ending of the movie which took the excitement and suspense out, making the movie inconsistent and dull. Yes, everyone wanted to know if Evan would ever resolve his problem, but you would anticipate the ending to be a bit more dramatic. This is why I don’t think the theatrical cut was an appropriate ending because it lacked suspense, thrill, and excitement, but I did Evans dilemma. The theatrical ending is one
Observational documentaries are what Erik Barnouw calls “direct cinema”. This specific mode emphasis the non-intervention of filmmakers, highlighting the lack of control the filmmakers have over events and people participating in various scenes. According to Nichols, the observational mode is in its purest form, with “voice over commentary, music, intertitles, re-enactments and interviews are completely eschewed”. This paper will question Nichol’s and various other scholar’s works, in order to highlight the contradictory notions
Introduction I’ve noticed that all good films have good music. (Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Titanic are just a few examples). This makes me wonder, maybe music is what makes a film, not the story or the visual effects. An anonym internet used said so about the music within the cinema. The comment made reference to the song May it Be, by Enya, included in the Original Soundtrack of The Lord of the Rings, and located within the so-called 'new age' (Williams, 2009) in Irish traditional music (ITM).