Has music ever been used in film more powerfully than this?

[gurnemanz]

Kubrick again: the seduction scene in Barry Lyndon Schubert Trio

Soave sia il vento Trio from Cosi in Schlesinger's Sunday Bloody Sunday (can't find video, alas)

I can't hear Rossini's Barber Overture without thinking of Claudio Cardinale and Marcello Mastroianni in Fellini's 8½

[Nick Armstrong]

Joan Greenwood - what a voice! I never wanted anyone else to interrupt her....

(sorry - OT)

I started the topic so have no problem with your being OT nor about accompanying you briefly !! Each one of the following lines by 'Sibella' / Joan Greenwood is marvellous in that voice... esp. the emphasis on "dull"... (The other lines equally majestically delivered by Dennis Price )

Sibella: What would you say if she asked you about me?

Louis Mazzini: I'd say that you were the perfect combination of imperfections. I'd say that your nose was just a little too short, your mouth just a little too wide. But yours was a face that a man could see in his dreams for the whole of his life. I'd say that you were vain, selfish, cruel, deceitful. I'd say that you were adorable. I'd say that you were... Sibella.

Sibella: What a pretty speech.

Louis Mazzini: I mean it.

Sibella: [seductively] Come and say it to me again.


Sibella: [sobs] Oh Louis! I don't want to marry Lionel!

Louis Mazzini: Why not?

Sibella: He's so dull.

Louis Mazzini: I must admit he exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.

[aeolium]

Well, if anyone is allowed to interrupt Joan Greenwood then it should be Dennis Price

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

yes the Trio in Barry lyndon but i would argue for the whole movie ... the fife and drums, the Handel etc etc one of the most stunning marriages of images and music ever created ...

[salymap]

My memory is bad, but Ingrid Bergman and those marching children singing 'This old man' from ???

And 'The Third Man' and 'Genevieve' take a bit of beating forthe right music in the right film surely.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

My memory is bad, but Ingrid Bergman and those marching children singing 'This old man' from ???

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness - the story of Gladys Aylwood (Hai-Weh Dah) if memory serves, sals! Part of that very scene filmed on the bit of the Pennines near where I was born and spent the first 18 years of my life.

[salymap]

Ah yes, thanks a lot ferney

[JFLL]

One of the most chilling uses of music I've come across is a short sequence in Kevin Brownlow's 'It Happened Here', a fantasy about a Nazi occupation of England, filmed in grainy black-and-white. At one point the heroine is walking through a bombed-out London and comes to a street marked 'For Jews Only'. The accompanying music is the end of the first movement of Bruckner's 9th Symphony, which I can never hear now without thinking of the film. There's something remorseless and implacable about the music which perfectly underlines the hopelessness of life under the seemingly endless Nazi occupation

[Stunsworth]

The theme and titles to World at War. The point where a concentration camp prisoner is shown, and the music changes mood, affects me every time I see it.

Incidently, can you imagine ITV making a similar series to that these days?

[Nick Armstrong]

The theme and titles to World at War. The point where a concentration camp prisoner is shown, and the music changes mood, affects me every time I see it.

Yes ... I can hear the modulation and shift in tone at the instant you describe, in my mind's ear now Good old Carl Davis. Inspired by Shostakovich, I think (there are sections of DSCH's 8th that remind me of it)

[Hornspieler]

For me, that almost continuous Mexican style trumpet playing in the background for any of the Clint Eastwood "spaghetti Western" films is very effective in creating the atmosphere and tension. I can feel it now - just by writing about it.

"A Fistful of Dollars" is probably the best known. Music by Ennio Morricone

HS

[Sir Velo]

For me, that almost continuous Mexican style trumpet playing in the background for any of the Clint Eastwood "spaghetti western" films is very effective in creating the atmosphere and tension. I can feel it now - just by writing about it.

HS

You've triggered a memory HS. I'd forgotten what a genius composer Morricone was. For pure, evocative, raw emotion, this, for the arrival of Charles Bronson's character, "Harmonica" from "Once Upon a Time in the West".

[LeMartinPecheur]

I can't hear Rossini's Barber Overture without thinking of Claudio Cardinale and Marcello Mastroianni in Fellini's 8½

Claudio? Damn, I could have sworn he was a woman!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Claudio? Damn, I could have sworn he was a woman!

Don'tcha just hate it when that happens?!





(No; me neither! )

[Sir Velo]

If Bartok's night music vein never struck you as malevolent, try this for size.