Search - Anne Dudley :: Black Book [Music from the Music Picture]

Beautiful and subtle scores throughout the whole movie

JustAForeignReader | Major Earthquake Faultline | 04/17/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"beautiful songs and music scores throughout the well directed, scripted and acted wwll movie. what i love most is the subtlety of anchoring the songs and music scores right on time and at the right moments when it should be appeared or heard. it also remind me how the hollywood did poor jobs to so many movies about their music scores, they never realized that music scores in a movie should not become so obviously annoying and dominant to disturb an appropriate viewing experience. almost every movie now out of hollywood is flooded with overdone music scores, it still remain at the stage of when movie industries need music to emphasize or to support the acting and the storyline. from the early 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s until now, they are still staying at the same stage, using music score to synchronize the movements of the actors just like walter disney's cartoons, using music to express every movement of what the cartoon figures performed. they never realized movies played by human actors don't want too much music to support their actings. good movies never need too much disturbing and annoying music to help the development of a storyline. music scores are only needed when some of the moments need to be accommodated or emphasized. actors in a movie are not like duffy duck, donald duck, might mouse, goofy, road runner, tom and jerry, the cat, the mouse and the canary. they are not cartoon figures, they don't need music to mimic their expressions or movements, or just flooded the music score so mindlessly.

the music and songs in 'black book' were all smartly and appropriately inserted. they never bother your hearing and viewing. and the german songs are also pretty good to hear."