Soundtracks
are a minefield. You can have the great themes by composers like Bernard Hermann
and John Williams, but those soundtracks can also be marred by short, unmelodic
bursts of score that only serve the purpose of matching cues in the
accompanying film. Then there are the soundtracks that just have popular songs
on them, starting with American Graffiti
and continuing through the John Hughes films of the 1980s. These types of
soundtracks are all the rage these days (especially since Tarantino lent an air of
cool to the process in the 1990s) as they’re easy to cobble together. Then
there are composers who simply try to put across a mood or a feeling in their
soundtracks. Clint Mansell is one of those composers.Looking at the subject matter of this film, and the identity of the film’s director Duncan Jones (also known as Zowie Bowie), it would have been all too easy to plonk Space Oddity on the film’s soundtrack. Thankfully, this fantastic film was made in the UK, away from the clichés of Hollywood.
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