AT Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 11:59:16 Larry wrote:

the big problem with the way music is now used in movies -- by the likes of
>Anderson, Scorsese (who really started the trend, back with Mean Streets) 
>and Tarantino -- is that it is used as a stand-in for emotion or effects 
>the director was too lazy to deliver. Or has become too lazy to deliver.

Hmmm....so, emotion cannot be delivered WITH music then? The scene should 
play silent?

I'm a strong supporter of music AS narrative. In the case of Tarantino's 
Reservoir Dogs' use of "Stuck In The Middle With You"....the opposite was 
true. Tarantino managed to take a respectable innocuous song represent a 
horrific act. The emotional response is still to those visuals. The song 
however, has now become Pavlovian in its association when you hear it 
outside of the context of the film. It never became part of the narrative 
nor does it illicit an emotional response -- just two juxtaposing and highly 
unmix-y things forever linked by the brilliance of same.


Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
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Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
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