Movie soundtracks

[Melody]

Alora wrote:
>
> On that topic of movie soundtracks, my husband doesn't really
> understand why I love them.  I feel it's only fair to admit he
> doesn't have any musical bones in him at all.  What would the movie
> be without music?  It would be boring!  It would have no "feeling"
> to it, am I right?


Ahh, don't get me started on movie soundtracks.  They are *amazing*.
I would ask anyone that says otherwise if their hearts sing with
music.  I know with mine when I listen to soundtracks from "Ever
After" or "Glory" my heart is quite thrown into loops and is dancing.
 It is like I am flying on the violins and french horns.  I don't see
how anyone can resist them.

Then there is the fact soundtracks bring back the event they are
mirroring in the movie and that also is resonating in my mind and it
is all so, so... ::sigh:: wonderful.

I mean in the case with Harry Potter.  Watch the last scene when
Hagrid is walking back to Hogwarts and the kids are on the train going
to the MW and the camera sweeps back in a high view to encompass
Hogwarts and the surrounding forests and the music swells and the
birds fly and all is right with the world...  Ok that was a run-on
sentence, but that is the way the mind goes then.  And the music
captures all of what just happened and makes me love it even more.

Maybe it is just me, but I have more soundtracks than I do "regular"
cds.  To be fair classical music also does this, but without the
pictures.

Well composed music that captures the emotions of the moment is what
soundtrack composing is all about.  Try and imagine "Braveheart"
without the lute or "Titanic" without the string quartet.

It is heartless.

But I have lived life with music, so I am a bit bias.  I am glad I am.

:)

Melody