There Will Be Blood
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Composer: Jonny GreenwoodEdition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2007-12-18
Music Label: Wea/Atlantic/Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- Open Spaces
- Future markets
- Prospectors Arrive
- Eat Him By His Own Light
- Henry Plainview
- There Will Be Blood
- Oil
- Proven Lands
- HW/Hope Of New Fields
- Smear
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Free Music Review: Music: enhanecment or detriment?
Hit: 5 Stars
First of all, this movie is excellent. I am replying to the comments concerning the music of this film: "Music deepens image, gives character to the shot, establishes the feeling." I respect this opinion, yet I do not share it. Music does not "establish" feeling but rather thrusts it forcibly on the viewers mind. "There Will Be Blood" would have been much better without the soundtrack. Many people comment on "No Country for Old Men"'s not having any music. Some say that this makes the film "artsy." This is incorrect. The fact that "No Country" has no music is one of its greatest virtues. How many movies are ruined by the soundtrack? I could never count the answer to that question. At certain points during the "Will Be Blood," I thought they were using the soundtrack from "Planet of the Apes:" that's how bad the music was. Movies are not Opera. "No Country" proves that non musical cinema is the purest form of film. When does a director use music? When the movie is doing absolutely nothing, or, when he wants to force you to feel an emotion. Let the audience judge for itself. Music in movies is a flaw and a blemish on proper film-making. Thank you for listening to my opinion.
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This album marks Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood's first high-profile soundtrack--and one that's also easily among the most striking offerings of 2007. Music is particularly important for director Paul Thomas Anderson (remember Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love?) and here, his choice of Greenwood is a gamble that more than paid off. The score is extremely string-heavy, and tension (of which there's plenty in the Upton Sinclair-based movie) derives from them instead of the usual percussive Hollywood tropes (indeed, percussions are almost entirely absent from the CD). "Henry Plainview" and "Proven Lands" are part of a larger piece, Popcorn Superhet Receiver, that Greenwood wrote as Composer-in-Residence at the BBC; both cues display the musician's imaginative use of strings, suggestively scary on the first, pounding and creepy on the second. But Greenwood also knows when to bring in a new instrumental voice, as with the Satie-like piano on "Prospectors Arrive." Equally at ease writing for a string quartet and for a larger orchestra, Greenwood has come up with compositions closer to the new-music world that to the vast majority of scores coming out of Tinseltown--something we should be really grateful for. This is a new, exciting direction for film music. --Elisabeth VincentelliGuitarist Jonny Greenwood has composed a hauntingly dramatic instrumental score for Oscar nominated writer-director
Paul Thomas Anderson s ambitious new film, There Will Be Blood. An adaptation of the Upton Sinclair novel Oil!, the movie features
Daniel Day-Lewis in what The Hollywood Reporter has described as a powerhouse performance... it s a certain awards contender.
Greenwood s remarkable compositions, written primarily for strings, have already garnered considerable praise in advance reviews.
The score resembles his rock compositions only in the level of daring and inventiveness to be found throughout these tracks and in the unsettling atmosphere he is able to conjure at key moments. Greenwood s score is more indicative of his current collaborations with the BBC Orchestra as Composer In Residence activities closely followed by Pitchfork Media and The Daily Swarm.
In fact, the score incorporates material from two orchestral pieces he created in that position, smear and Popcorn Superhet Receiver,
which will have its U.S. concert premiere this January when Greenwood appears at the Wordless Music Series in New York City.
There Will Be Blood takes Anderson in a radically different direction than his celebrated earlier films, Boogie Nights and Magnolia dazzling, attention-grabbing movies marked by multiple plot lines, ensemble casts and surreal visual elements. His last project,Punch Drunk Love, was a sophisticated comedy-drama with a smart pop score by composer-producer Jon Brion, released on
Nonesuch in 2002. Anderson s new work is a stark period piece filmed on arid Texas plains; critics have likened it to the brilliantly austere work of such revered directors as Stanley Kubrick and Terence Malick (Days Of Heaven). The Hollywood Reporter called Greenwood s score captivating...greatly contributing to the sense that tectonic forces lie beneath the drama.
The soundtrack to There Will Be Blood will appeal to serious movie-music fans, who will appreciate this rare find: an intelligent, beautiful
and deeply cinematic orchestrated score performed by the BBC Orchestra and London Sinfonietta that can hold its own next to the classic work of such composers as Bernard Herrman, Elmer Bernstein and Ennio Morricone.
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