Hey guys, here we are again! We are actually really
sad, for having this as our last post being corrected, but we just thought that
you maybe are tired of film reviews, so we are going to be talking about
cinema, of course, but instead of focusing on a movie, we are going to focus on
one of its most important “parts”: SOUNDTRACK!
Yeah, we know, doing our last post about Music on a
blog about Movies, but it does make all the sense!
If you pay attention, you’ll see that behind all of
the best movies that were ever made, there is always a really nice soundtrack giving
the scene the right tone, marking its rhythm or just making us feel anxious
because there is something coming out of the blue (BOOM! Then the little girl
with the knife appears behind you! Oh wait, that’s not a knife, that’s just a
toy! But the moment you realize it, a creepy dude dressed like a ninja just
jumps to you like a Justin Bieber, oh wait, I spelled it the wrong way: Justin
Bieber, dressed like a dude, jumps to you like a creepy ninja! SURPRISE MOTHERF#$%&).
Ok, let’s go right to the point!
The fact is: being the two of us addicted for cheap
music (remember you are reading the texts of a DJ and a Guy that heard “The
Shire theme” for 10 hours in a row) and we really needed an excuse to bring
back the themes of older posts.
When talking about the technic part of a movie, you
can easily identify some aspects such as the light, the acting, the SOUNDTRACK,
the plans, etc. But it is not that easy to identify the importance of any of
these aspects in particular on the whole movie context. When we are talking
about soundtracks, several names come to our minds: Hans Zimmer (the genius
mind behind the soundtrack of the best movies – Yup, we’re talking about The Gladiator, Lion King, The Peacemaker,
The Last Samurai, Inception, etc.), Nino Rota (the guy who
wrote the scores for The Godfather
and for one of the old versions of Romeo
& Juliet), Howard Shore (for words: LOOORD OF THE RIIIIIIIINGS!), Madd Rod (the guy who composed a
beautiful 8 seconds masterpiece for Ivy),
etc.
All of these names, especially the last one, deserve some
recognition they are not always given, but without them none of this movies
would have the impact they had.
From all we listed, if we had to pick our favorite, it
would certainly be Zimmer, that guy composes the soundtrack for like 3/4 movies
a year! He managed to win so many prizes that he switched is pillow for an Oscar,
is toothbrush for another Oscar, and he doesn’t watch TV at home, he just makes
himself auto-guided tours through his own museum of awards. We don’t want to
give you false information, but we also heard he drinks his coffee using his
Oscar, but it looks kind of impossible so it is better for you not to believe
in this last fact.
(someone doesn't look that happy...)
Another proof that shows the importance of soundtrack
is the following: some movies’ main themes have much more fame than the movies
themselves, for instance, the “duel” track on The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, the main theme of Saturday Night Fever (Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Stayin’ Alive! Stayin’ Alive), and we
could carry on listing more cases, but why leaving you with such a long
goodbye?
So, yeah, let’s give you a short goodbye!
Good bye…
Nooo, we can’t leave like this! Stop crying! We love
you readers! And we hope we’ll see you here if we ever post here again! We
really enjoyed writing this blog, and even though we don’t like the exact same
movies, we found it really interesting to do this partnership!
We hope you have enjoyed it,
BIG HUG,
THE POPCORNER TEAM
António
Valente & Rodrigo Pinheiro
P.S: Sorry Henry Mancini, we only remembered your name now, but we like you too (please don't send us a plague from up there)!
