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The Best Music in Film
Paul Morrissey
(Trash)
- S&S: What is your favourite film soundtrack music and why do you like it so much?
- "On The Waterfront (1954) by Leonard Bernstein. It's the best piece of music by any 20th century composer for any film"
- S&S: In what ways does music best enhance a film?
- "Music seems to me at it's best when used, not for mood or drama but to enhance the emotional content of a film."
- S&S: What is the most effective sequence of music in your own films?
- "Although I've done films with non-stop dialogue and without any music at all, in Beethoven's Nephew (1985), to tell the final 20 minutes of the story I used the entire 20 minutes of the 3rd movement of the 9th symphony, with almost no dialogue during this long sequence, hopefully telling a composer's story through hi music. Whether it was “effective” or not isn't for me to say, but I thought so."