TRENT REZNOR / ATTICUS ROSS

I believe it was Plato who said something like "young people today do nothing but backtalk their elders, gobble their food, and ignore their lessons".

It wasn't so different. There were a few tracks on previous albums from what I understand, which the film was edited to. (Which is how many unusual film/music combinations come to be in the first place, including many early Morricone scores.) Many pieces were written new for the film, but little of it was traditional scoring where the music tries to connect the dramatic beats. That's what the editors were for.

I did really enjoy it in the film, particularly the first 4 tracks on album. I felt some little tricks must have been done to give the music a bit more oomph in the film sound mix, as I didn't quite find the music as impressive on album. The one bit I didn't really get was 'Hall of the Mountain King'. Great source material, great version, but it doesn't help what is already a bizarre scene fit in with the rest of the drama. I either wanted more of that sort of thing, or none of it. But once does not a motif make. Even on the album I skip past it, because it has no connection to the rest of the music.

I thought the scene was absolutely great and essential.

The film is very dialogue-heavy (with lots of information being presented in the dialogue), so that scene was a much needed space for only visuals and music, a "tableaux", if you will after a lengthy period of such dialogue.

I DID think it talked too much, as did ZODIAC. But there were some striking exceptions - the rowing scene, the opening, the end scene.

I thought the Grieg was chosen mostly because of its increasing pace and energy, in synch with the visuals, more than the associative bit. More for timbre than semantics, in other words.

And Rahman the oscar, soon

yay, congrats on another sign that music doesn't need to be brilliant anymore. It simply needs to be functionable in a brilliant movie instead.

Another sign that the movie of music of today is going down the drain

That's the question I've been asking for the last 20 years!!

Lots of doom and gloom and 'everything used to be so much better'.

Absolutely true, Erik. Sometimes I think David Fincher has lost his marbles -- he's gotten composers like David Shire, Howard Shore, and Alexandre Desplat to write some beautiful and evocative scores for his previous films. Now he's fallen in love with these techy-soundscape composers and doesn't want to go back.

I'm not looking forward to Ross & Reznor's score for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (the remake is a totally different story). Someone like Howard Shore would've captured the moody, dark feel of the book perfectly.

Right now, it is speculation. Although Fight Club's atrocious Dust Brothers score and Fincher's previous two collaborations with Ross and Reznor suggest otherwise.

Actually it's very quiet on the subject, nobody really bothers and if you were there now, you'd be surprised too Thanks for the irony though

TRENT REZNOR AND ATTICUS ROSS - Girl with the dragon tattoo

Listen To Some Of Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross ‘ ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ Score
http://scoremagacine.blogspot.com/2011/ … -with.html

Ask the Academy. They nominated The Social Network as Best Score, not Reznor and Ross.

You know, there are people twenty years older than you that are appaled Powell would win an Oscar. For anything he's done.

Well, every generation has its favorite composers. And that to some even Powell winning an Oscar would seem stretched.

Well, it's an odd comment, having nothing to do with my feedback. My age has nothing to do with my interpretation. I love Bach, Beethoven and Mozart- does my generation favor these composers or do I need to stop listening to them and conform to the norm? To me, that is just as pointless of a remark as it is to discuss my age in relation to John Powell's music. Plus... I mentioned that none of the nominated scores really grabbed me. In the lineup however, I thought it was an appalling selection, feeling that Powell and even Zimmer had it hands down.

"Powell's Dragon very conventional..." and Social Network wasn't generic, bland and uninteresting?

It's fine- I don't get it still but I have already wasted more time explaining my thoughts on this issue than I would like to. I shared my opinion for what it's worth and hey- if others agree with the Oscar and like the score- terrific. That's what I like about forums like this. Sometime we agree, disagree, share and learn... It's all great. I respect everyone's view.