In our group we decided to critique a
movie based on four main elements. As a
lover of music in film I volunteered to critique the music and scoring for No
Country For Old Men. Unfortunately there
was no music in the film. Only a five
second clip of a mariachi band playing in Mexico, though it had no connection
to the plot line at all. When I say
there was no music in the film, I mean absolutely none. The movie was full of high suspense moments
that a “normal” film would have climatic orchestration, or popular music synced
with the scene.
I have heard it said that the original
Star Wars would not have been nearly as successful if not for the amazing score
written by John Williams. Its true, the
movie is complimented amazingly by the music.
I though about this before I even started to watch the movie, what would
a film look like with out any music.
Well I got my answer; it would look like No Country For Old Men.
About fifteen minutes into the movie
I said to myself, is this entire movie going to be without music?
To review a movie on its music when
it had no music in nearly impossible, but what would the movie have looked like
with music in it? I feel it could have been much more exciting. It is a killer movie, a mystery movie, a
suspense movie, and how much better could it have been with some dramatic
music. In the eyes of the academy awards
the movie could not have been any better since it won film of the year in 2007.
However I think it’s symbolic that it
had no music at all. The main character is heartless and some say he is
brainless. His only idea is to kill and
save himself. As they say in The Dark
Knight (a movie with tremendous orchestration by the way,) “Some men just want
to watch the world burn.”
There is no sound track to this movie
because the killer has no sound track.
He doesn’t need a theme song like Michael Myers, because he is a
different kind of killer. There is no
tune in his head and no song can relate to that.
Like I said, it’s hard to analyze
nothing, it was hard to understand the motives in the film, but I strangely
learned something from the film, and am glad there was no music involved.
Brian Webner
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