Subject: Re: Sound Design in Fellowship of the Rings (Lord of the ...)
From: Michael Norris (mnorris@globe.net.nz)
Date: Thu Jan 03 2002 - 22:17:13 EST
>I am
>well aware that the music can do far, far more, but the sound? If the
>sound suites the actions or objects that create them and they are well
>recorded, mixed, balanced, etc. what more can you ask for? Please
>relieve me of my ignorance. :)
Do you know the passage in FF Coppola's The Godfather, where Michael
Corleone (Al Pacino) is about to shoot Stirling Hayden (the police
guy) and the other fellow (sorry memory's giving out on me here).
This is a brilliantly imaginative use of sound: a recording of a
suburban train with squealing brakes is used in the place of music to
reflect Michael's increasingly wired mental state.
Any other director would have used tense strings.
-mike
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