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The Best Music in Film
Eliza Carthy
(Folk singer and fiddle player)
- S&S: What is your favourite film soundtrack music and why do you like it so much?
- "Vojislav Aralica and Dejan Sparavalo's music for Black Cat White Cat. I love the way that the music is absolutely expressing the core and soul of the culture that is presented in the film. It makes it so you can almost taste and smell the film; the best film music does that for me. It is hard to tell where the score stops and the on-screen party starts, it's that good."
- S&S: In what ways does music best enhance a film?
- "Previous answer. Got carried away!"
- S&S: Which film either has music that you wished you'd written or is one you would like to rescore and why?
- "I often wish that I'd had the chance to put relevant traditional music into historical English material. I frequently feel let down by period films that are obviously painstakingly researched in every detail except music. People tend to assume that only modern people define themselves by their musical tastes and how and where they socialise, but people have always been the same, and to present characters with no musical context feels dumb and shallow. Cold Mountain (2003) made me wish that I was American and able to participate in that, teaching actors how to sing unaccompanied music from their ancestors."