Throughout, Jonny Greenwood's omnipresent and beguiling score wafts over the drama, melding
with diegetic sound, including pieces of music placed in the world of the characters.
The soundtrack is muted,
with some diegetic religious music but nothing like a traditional score; composer Brian Williams works more in unsettling scrapes and howls.
His cuts, perfectly timed
with the diegetic soundtrack, made the journey of a song cinematic.
Not exact matches
The attendant 5.1 DTS - HD MA track proves that Zemeckis is still capable of turning on the afterburners
with regards to mixing set - pieces (there's an almost musical quality to the Blitz as bombs clobber the subwoofer and hails of gunfire flank the viewer), yet when I think of Allied, I think of its restrained use of score — much of the music is
diegetic — and of how Zemeckis finds a remarkable number of variations in the sound of the air around Max and Marianne's loaded silences.
The soundtrack preserves the careful mixing of
diegetic and non-
diegetic effects, most notably in how urban street sounds, particularly of traffic, are used to bridge studio - shot footage
with location shooting.
Set against the crusty, propulsive keyboard plinks of Jefferson Starship's «Jane» (which opens both Wet Hot American Summer and its accompanying series), the trailer overrides American Honey's
diegetic soundtrack to give it the low - stakes look of a suggestive teen sex comedy (replete
with comedic freeze frames and vintage title cards) rather than the sobering exploration of class and youthful recklessness it is.
Another scene sees
diegetic sound overlap, creating the somewhat surreal impression of convulsing bodies dancing to the music at Luciano's dinner as they continue to be riddled
with bullets.
Shot (
with one exception) in black and white by Florian Ballhaus (son of Michael), the film is set to a score that is more industrial sound than music; yet, it is the combination of the clinically clean black - and - white cinematography, the disturbing score, and the narrative's single - minded focus on the protagonist's actions (there is no moment when the film seeks to psychologise him) by which the film manages to simultaneously solicit, on the one hand, our fascination
with and, increasingly, horror about the events depicted — even long after Herold has proven how scarily easy it is for him to order mass murder (and, whenever necessary, to set an example by killing himself)-- and, on the other hand, to ensure that we keep some intellectual distance from the
diegetic events.
For the first time in the enduring Morricone - Leone collaboration, a kind of pantomime pervades the music,
with notes and actions so closely coordinated that the Charles Bronson character's theme becomes
diegetic: Every time Bronson, called Harmonica because the instrument is practically his first language, blows into his harp, the resulting noise is incongruously omnipresent.
These tracks sound similar to these ears: deep, clean,
with fastidious distinctions made between the
diegetic and non-
diegetic sounds, which is of paramount importance to a film that so precisely deconstructs itself, featuring a killer who provides her own soundtracks for her murders, suggesting an artist in her own right.