81st Oscars: Original Score
Seriously, have you guys heard this Benjamin Button score? Listened to it on its own? How Desplat makes something so otherworldly sad and eschew easy sentimentality like Alan Silvestri's Gump score is beyond me. He is truly one of the great composers of our time...which means he will never win an Oscar.
"How's the despair?"
I just listened to the scores for WALL*E and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button...
Thomas Newman's score for WALL*E is his best since American Beauty and the first since to avoid pale comparison. He's a great composer but has too often fallen into retread this decade. His work in Finding Nemo especially underwhelmed me, so I was surprised at how lifting his score for WALL*E was.
The more I listen to it though, I might have to cast my vote for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The film evokes the alien sensation of throttling backwards from one end of mortality to the other in a way the film doesn't entirely dare. Alexander Desplat is one of the most ingenious composers today and this is a heavy-lifting score. Instead of the fatalism of the thing, his music cues emphasize the eeriness of encountering this oddity of nature. I love this music.
Thomas Newman's score for WALL*E is his best since American Beauty and the first since to avoid pale comparison. He's a great composer but has too often fallen into retread this decade. His work in Finding Nemo especially underwhelmed me, so I was surprised at how lifting his score for WALL*E was.
The more I listen to it though, I might have to cast my vote for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The film evokes the alien sensation of throttling backwards from one end of mortality to the other in a way the film doesn't entirely dare. Alexander Desplat is one of the most ingenious composers today and this is a heavy-lifting score. Instead of the fatalism of the thing, his music cues emphasize the eeriness of encountering this oddity of nature. I love this music.
"How's the despair?"
