{"id":96,"date":"2013-03-07T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=96"},"modified":"2013-03-07T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T17:56:00","slug":"motion-picture-soundtrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2013\/03\/07\/motion-picture-soundtrack\/","title":{"rendered":"Motion Picture Soundtrack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I watched the film <i>The Impossible<\/i> starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts about a family who is ripped apart by the 2004 tsunami. I didn&#8217;t cry once. I cried several times. The film is emotionally driven as loneliness, loss, empathy, and shared humanity feature in every scene. A welling soundtrack accompanies all of those scenes so that I could anticipate a reunion or deep anxiety along with the character &#8211; my heart racing with theirs.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nTwo weeks ago I watched another celebrated film called <i>Amour<\/i> from Austrian director Michael Haneke (one of my favourites). The film portrays the care an elderly husband shows his now disabled wife and her response to being disabled &#8211; a very complex film with extraordinary characters. No where in the film is a soundtrack used added. There is some live and recorded music, but only music that the characters can hear as well. Because of the absence of a manipulating soundtrack, I share the quiet, loneliness, despair, and heartbrokenness of the characters in their space, in their time (it&#8217;s also a very slowly paced movie).<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nSo, which is better? To have a soundtrack or not? Would <i>Schindler&#8217;s List<\/i> have been as powerful without John Williams compositions or Itzhak Perlman&#8217;s haunting violin solos? The wisdom of a director and producer to know when a scene can be enhanced by music is more intuitive than formulaic and I do enjoy when that wisdom runs deep.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I watched the film The Impossible starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts about a family who is ripped apart by the 2004 tsunami. I didn&#8217;t cry once. I cried several times. The film is emotionally driven as loneliness, loss, empathy, and shared humanity feature in every scene. A welling soundtrack accompanies all of &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2013\/03\/07\/motion-picture-soundtrack\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-96","6":"format-standard","7":"category-film","8":"category-music","9":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}