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 Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2017 12:48 pm Post subject: Greatest Film Soundtrack Nomination - Baby Driver? |
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There have been lots of films that utilized songs to great effect and are in fact heavily associated with those soundtracks as part of their identity. I'm not talking score. No doubt there are films with amazing scores by brilliant composers. I'm talking about films that used external music and songs as a prominent part of their score. In that regard I don't recall any film that has utilized its soundtrack so extensively and definitively as its complete score as does "Baby Driver". The use of song as themes, tone and storytelling is integral to the film. Action and cutting patterns are directly tied to beats. Dialog is directly tied to lyric content of songs. Even pieces of disparate instrumentals are subtly used and blended together as if they are score.
So if someone has a film they would like to suggest as being even more tied to its soundtrack, I'd love to hear what it is.
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| Sorry but repo man takes that cake. |
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| Hector the Pup wrote: | | Sorry but repo man takes that cake. |
Fair offering, But Repo Man didn't constantly use the beat of the songs to drive physical action to even remotely the fashion that Baby Driver does. Trunks are car doors close in specific rhythm to the song. Gunshots become part of the percussion track . . .
Again, my point is not necessarily the collection and quality of the songs involved, it is how they were integrally tied into the deep fabric of the film.
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| The Grind wrote: | | Almost Famous |
A good call. Obviously Stillwater's songs were definitely integral to the story. And the music of the period was stitched into the core thematically.
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