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The Best Music in Film

(Chinese-Canadian DJ. Contributed to Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead)

S&S: What is your favourite film soundtrack music and why do you like it so much?: "The soundtracks for Edward Scissorhands (1990) and In the Mood for Love (2000) have been my travel cd wallet for the last 4 tours. The music from these films is just amazingly dreamy... and they are great records to draw to when you are waiting at the train station."
S&S: In what ways does music best enhance a film?: "I don't know, I guess some things make more sense in notes than in words."
S&S: Which film either has music that you wished you'd written or is one you would like to rescore and why?: "There is an unbelievable build up to the first kiss in the Coens' The Hudsucker Proxy (1994). Tim Robbins and Jennifer Jason Leigh are on a balcony under the stars carrying on about how they may have been an apex and a gazelle snorfelling from the same stream in their other lives. They lean closer and closer together... and the music crescendos to one of those all time wonderful high-five inducing moments. Carter Burwell's score is absolutely perfect for this film."