1. "The Weight" being played in the background while something happens.
2. Eva Green getting naked.
3. William Sanderson doing something.
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1. "The Weight" being played in the background while something happens.
2. Eva Green getting naked.
3. William Sanderson doing something.
4. Monkeys
5. Producers send me money to watch
6. Soundtrack by either John Williams or Hans Zimmer
7. Peggy Lipton in the 1990s
8. Diana Rigg
9. Julie Bowen
10. A Mexican stand-off.
11. An appearance by Dick Miller.
12. A Stan Lee cameo.
13. Elizabeth Montgomery
14. Barbara Eden
15. Not having any commercial placement for *Mr. Ed* (worst "vintage" show of all time)
16. A bum or wino seeing something amazing then looking into their drink then pouring it out in disbelief.
17. Spit takes
18. Killer robots
19. Gratuitous female nudity
20. Time travel, if done cleverly
21. Judd Hirsh guest appearance
22. John Goodman guest appearance
23. Alan Arkin guest appearance
24. Betty White guest appearance
25. Maggie Smith guest appearance
26. A Star Trek Reference
27. Peter Falk when he was still alive guest appearance
28. a Kubrick in-joke
29. a little Bach
30. major character can't immediately find a parking space
31. A LOT of Bach
32. Other good art music
33. Keira Knightley, Linda Cardellini, Jenny Wade, or Brooke Langton
Ah, Keira! You know me well. Le sigh.
Obligatory photo: http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/Ac...0803-26902.jpg
All right this is OT, but she is undeniably pretty as a duck on a june bug in that picture.
Seriously, though -- I think there's a place where using good art music (and not that Buxtehude crap! joking) makes all the difference. I'm not blind, but I just don't "look" at movies that often. Sound design in general is the thing -- how did they use compression for the audio? Is it so much compression that nuances drop out from the recorded speech? Is it so little that you get the classic "turn it way up only to be overwhelmed by some music/explosions a half-second later"?
I suppose on the same line, while I "get" the work that instrumental composers do, all the filler music, I'd appreciate more semi-diegetic nods in the score. Not everyone likes hearing somebody's score straight-from the DAW.
Lynch gets it right. So, for that matter, does (or did) Gus van Sant (he uses Kelley Baker, who is a great sound guy). I think that lacuna is a flaw from when directors (a) stopped having as much competent production control, by real producers and (b) let excess from visual specialists flow over into aspects that should have been under their creative control