Music and movies

[vanfane1]

I've said it before and I'll say it again "Man I love being a turtle"....hahaha sorry I realize that i almost never quote teenage mutant ninja turtles (mainly because their lingo became out of date 20 minutes after the movies' theatrical releases) Anyways what i really meant to say is a quote from Evangelion "Truly music is Man's greatest

Comments

[oneiryn]

you know, my own (involuntary) forays into filmmaking all seem to center around music . . . it's the universal glue so far as relating one's characters to one's audience goes. i would be very impressed with anyone who managed to make a good movie without music without that naked feel it always seems to create.

and by all means, yes, quality over quantity . . . when you have both, though, you have to admit that's more impressive. one scene in a movie can redeem it from utter failure so far as i'm concerned, but it can't make me actively like it . . . just tolerate it without resentment. unless of course it's a really good scene. i bore easily with cathode-ray products.

[psyklonis]

Music can make a movie, true . . . but it can also break a movie. I've seen many a Tamil movie ruined by horrendous choice in music.

That being said, music really is man's greatest creation, as far as I am concerned. I can't think of any other basic human creation that has the power to touch us as well as make us laugh and dance. And I think it's impossibly cool that music has weathered time and is still as prevalent in culture today as it was thousands of years ago. And not only is it prevalent in our culture, but also cultures that really have not had much contact with ours; cultures lost long ago, cultures we may never know about. It's simply amazing.

[aashish]

Movies without any background music would be boring. Imagine sitting there, listening to a 2 hour conversation between a bunch of fake people. Echk. I mean, it'd sound like Ron Livingson's boss in office space: "riiiight". Boring.

Speaking of office space, I "die muthafucka-ed" an old smoke detector yesterday. It was in our shipment, and was beeping all night long as the battery was low. I found the bloody thing in the morning. This happened moments after I had opened a box that had all my baseball bats in it. I took a metal bat, and beat the smoke detector to death. I could've just taken out the battery, but no... a movie had corrupted my values and made me use a more destructive method in solving the problem. Oh, and I can't let office space take all the blame... much of it must go to the song die muthafucka.

[vanfane1]

an enraged, violent, aashish..this i gotta see

inner monologue

[afhouston]

I didn't read this post, but I realized the voice reminded of something. Some of your posts sound exactly like the inner monologues movies have and TV shows, the one immediately coming to mind being the Wonder Years. Its not just the natural voice, but the intricate detail weaved into a continuous thought. Have you considered writing a short?