However, the melancholy,
plaintive score arguably does too much of the emotional heavy - lifting and that's because, again, these moments don't always add up genuinely.
Not exact matches
Providing effective backup is a gentle, piano - forward
score by veteran composer Carl Davis («The French Lieutenant's Woman») and a
plaintive original song by Paul McCartney.
The Hunger Games has two great assets: the
score by James Newton Howard, which manages to be at once thrilling and
plaintive, and the Katniss of Jennifer Lawrence.
Swaddled in Angelo Badalamenti's gorgeous synth
score, with foreboding bass - thrums occasionally making way for a recurring, cascading piano theme of faltering heartbreak — soaring into lonely,
plaintive high notes before falling back into a busier, lower register of despair.»
In addition to Papamichael's camerawork, the
plaintive guitar - and - fiddle
score by Mark Orton is another craft standout.
The
score is
plaintive and mostly sparing, until the moments that our heroes are face to face with these horrifying creatures, and then it's almost louder than we can stand.