{"id":1598,"date":"2014-11-11T20:52:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T04:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2020-10-18T11:55:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T18:55:05","slug":"interstellar-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2014\/11\/11\/interstellar-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Interstellar… Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gary Westfahl’s reviews save me lots of time and money. Whenever I think a new SF film might be interesting enough to see…. his review often persuades me otherwise. (And when I do see them, my reaction is much the same as Gary’s, which is why I rely on him for reviews.) Thus, Interstellar<\/i>. Worth seeing? I go to see so few new movies anyway, it takes some convincing to get me to get to the theater. At the same time, that Neil deGrasse Tyson has taken this film seriously enough to tweet about it<\/a>, suggests it’s worth taking seriously. At least seriously enough to see. If only to keep up with what all the other SF filmgoers are seeing, and how the broader culture perceives science fiction, via films like this.<\/p>\n

But even without seeing Interstellar<\/i>, I do have a reaction to one criticism of the film, about the music. I’ve already posted this on Facebook: <\/p>\n

The 7 biggest problems with \u201cInterstellar\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHans Zimmer is a monster who must be stopped\u201d is among the complaints.<\/p>\n

If the soundtrack overwhelms the dialogue, this is not the composer\u2019s fault; it\u2019s the sound editor\u2019s, or perhaps the director\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Several of my favorite film scores are by Zimmer \u2013 especially scores for \u201cThe Thin Red Line\u201d (a film I like), \u201cBeyond Rangoon\u201d (a film I\u2019ve never seen), and \u201cThe Da Vinci Code\u201d (a film I saw but don\u2019t care about). The scores I like, independent of the films. How the scores are used in those films is not within the composer\u2019s control.<\/p>\n

I remember seeing \u201cThe Hours\u201d, over a decade ago, with an Oscar-nominated score by Philip Glass. I\u2019m a Philip Glass fan, but as I watched the film I was aware about how relatively *loud* the score was, and wouldn\u2019t this turn off movie-goers who found his music distasteful? Even as a Glass fan, I found the music obtrusive.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve just listened to several YouTube tracks of Zimmer\u2019s score to Interstellar, and I find them quite intriguing. If they interfere with the film, it\u2019s not his fault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gary Westfahl’s reviews save me lots of time and money. Whenever I think a new SF film might be interesting enough to see…. his review often persuades me otherwise. (And when I do see them, my reaction is much the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-music","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1605,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}