There Will Be Blood
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Free Music Review: Best New Sound
Hit: 5 Stars
I think that this music is perfect. If you love intense strings and random chaos that all fits together, you will love this. The music in There will Be Blood was one of the main things I noticed while watching the movie. I love this soundtrack.Free Music Review: Best Score and Best Use of Score in a Movie Within Memory
Hit: 5 Stars
There Will Be Blood is a great movie, a unique vision probably greater than the Upton Sinclair novel which inspired it. It would not have been as great a movie without Jonny Greenwood's music. Music deepens image, gives character to the shot, establishes the feeling. Here, dialogue is sparse; much depends on image and sound, not words. Thus this is a thoroughly cinematic movie (i.e., it shows us things, it doesn't talk us there, and in the showing, gives us meaning and feeling), the music inexorably bound in the telling, in my mind the most cinematic film of 2007. The masterful choice of the final movement of Brahms' violin concerto, used twice in the film, arguably one of the last gasps of anti-Wagner, conservative, romantic triumphalism, is perfect: "there will be blood"....... but we shall win. (For the record, Brahms didn't).
I was disturbed when I learned the Greenwood score was not nominated for an Oscar. All other nominated scores, including the very pretty, ambitious one for Atonement, sound so forgettably conventional! Subsequently I learned that Jonny's does not qualify according to Academy rules because chunks of it consist of music he had previously composed and published, never-you-mind how artfully they are worked into the film. Pity, because recognition of the highest order is obviously deserved. Director and Music Editor are also deserving of highest praise.
Greenwood is that rare breed, a thoroughly classically trained musician (and violist) who "crossed-over" to become a superb rock guitarist now perhaps coming back to his classical roots. I'm rather glad he seems to finally be firmly out of his classical closet. Jonny Greenwood deserves a statuette of some sort.
Free Music Review: Buries into the deepest crevasses of your soul and haunts you...
Hit: 5 Stars
I've never been one to delve into instrumental music. In fact, unless it was a soundtrack of various artists I stayed far away. It wasn't that I thought instrumentals were horrible it's just that I hadn't a real desire to listen to them. Then my best friend started persuading me to listen to classical music, jazz and blues, a lot of which is instrumental and I found myself loving the way it made me feel. Music free from lyrical message can create a mood within the listener and causes them to find their own message within the orchestral arrangements.
Then this year I heard two bodies of music that spoke to me in so many ways. The greater of these was Dario Marianelli's haunting score for `Atonement', but Jonny Greenwood touched upon those same haunting levels with his masterful score for `There Will Be Blood', a score that is so important to the development of the film that it must be singled out and praised. It's hard to really review a score because each piece melds perfectly into the next that it in essence becomes one collective piece. With the score in its entirety Greenwood is able to gradually build immense tension with the listener, starting things off almost serene like and then slowly growling towards a terrifically pulsating end.
Tracks like `Oil' are so beautifully uplifting where tracks like `There Will Be Blood' are almost unsettling in their pulsating power. Yet one follows the other with grace and elegance that fits so well with the feeling of the entire score.
Many words have been thrown around to describe this magical album. Haunting, beautiful, serene, commanding, touching, striking, visceral; all of which are appropriate, but the one I loved the most was `suffocating'. This album is truly suffocating, for it engulfs the listener and surrounds him, coming at him from all sides until all he can see, think and feel is this devastating score of musical brawn. There are moments of fear, of sheer terror and then in contrast moments of soothing calm, of pure desirous tranquility.
Since obtaining this album I use it for my morning runs, allowing the mood to come over my skin and bring me to that place of serenity you want when exerting your body. It's the perfect compliment to the soul and a wonderful example of the power of music.
Free Music Review: Beauty in the dark
Hit: 5 Stars
First and foremost, this is a classic. At times atmospheric and at others claustrophobic. Around every turn lies a new beauty and the creeping sounds of perfectly performed string arrangements. The album is unlike many other film soundtrack CDs in that there isn't much repetition between pieces. Every track has it's own set of emotions and magnificent hooks that you will never forget. Reminiscent of Greenwood's other discs only in it's emotional range and his love of the Ondes-Martenot. I highly recommend both the record and the film.
Free Music Review: A Soundtrack Perfectly Mated To The Dramatic Material
Hit: 5 Stars
I saw this film yesterday and my gosh, it's well done. I recommend it to everyone --IMO it's an achievement on the level of Citizen Kane. But especially, take note of the astonishing soundtrack scored for chamber and solo strings. To call it 'haunting' is to sell it short. The music becomes, almost literally, one of the principal characters in the story, or anyway an element equal in power to the preternatural performances of Daniel Day Lewis and Paul Dano. In some movies with such intense music, the score can overpower the storytelling. It's part of this movie's genius that the musical and narrative elements complement each other throughout, creating a cumulative audience experience that's very rare in contemporary American film. The themes, musical and narrative, are dark and disturbing: hate-filled capitalist greed is locked in a co-dependent, sick death-struggle with religious hypocricy. And we, all of us who own a car or heat our homes or use electric power, are complicit.
But so much for my thumbnail movie critiquing. I urge anyone interested in string music to lend an attentive ear to this score by Johnny Greenwood.