Film Music: Blog #3

The film “The Best Years of Our lives” was very boring to me, it just wasn’t a movie I myself would pick to watch. The music in it went very well and helped to make the movie but the movie had no flavor to me. In this time of the movies they started to add color, which did not make sense to me why they would not have made the movie color. I do agree that yes black and white can sometimes make a film more interesting but this movie just did not make any sense to me. It switched screens all the time, and a certain times the music would just not go with what was going on in the film.

“High Noon” was an awesome movie and I would love to watch another western in class. Yes, I’m a big western fan and that is all thanks to my grandfather and my mother. The music in the film went very well with everything that was going on. When you saw either the marshal or the bad guys you would hear the piece that was played at the introduction to the film. Then when you would see the Russian lady you would hear mysterious music, and with Mrs. Kane you would hear more sad and gloomy music. The film was one to really keep you on your toes the whole movie because they kept playing the same tune by in different tempos and scales.

It was very cool to think that they could make you think one thing was going to happen and then the complete opposite happened and it was all thanks to the music in the film. You would have thought at the end that the marshal was going to die, but he actually lived. I also believed that the towns’ people would have helped the marshal but it turned out nobody wanted to help him but one man. It is so amazing what music can get you to think is going to happen, but that is just like what they said in the book most of the music is meant to make you think differently or to have it sneak up on you.

However the film “American Graffiti” was absolutely pointless and had no meaning to the film. The music was very good, it helped make the movie and to really put you in the time of the film. It was really neat how they could go from having classical music in a film then having pop music and rock n’ roll. It really helped us learn that so much can happen in a little period of time.