The Love Theme in Casablanca: As Time Goes By
When Max Steiner was asked to write the score for Casablanca, he was told to use the popular song “As Time Goes By” as a love theme for the two […]
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Musical Themes in the Dark Knight Trilogy, Part 1 of 6: Batman Begins
Watching the movies of the Dark Knight trilogy, it can be easy to come away feeling that the score, by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, is composed of atmospheric
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Batman and The Simpsons: Sister Themes
As Janet Halfyard points out in her book on the score for Tim Burton’s Batman, the music of Danny Elfman is known for being two different things: “dark” and “quirky”.
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Music in Disney’s Upcoming Star Wars Movies
On Oct. 31, 2012, it was announced that Disney would purchase Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion and release a new Star Wars film not only in 2015 but, according to Disney’s
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What is a Leitmotif and How Does it Work in Films?
The term leitmotif was first applied to the operas of Richard Wagner to describe a recurring melody that is associated with a certain character, people, object, place, emotion, or idea.
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The Pounding Bass in The Dark Knight Rises
This past summer, I was one of the countless filmgoers that experienced 2012’s biggest action flick, The Dark Knight Rises, in a theatre fully equipped with the highest of high
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