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Sep 28, 2024 - 6:30 AM
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Rozsaphile
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Revisiting the dense and fascinating 1994 film on the Criterion Channel, I was also able to enjoy the BluRay commentary. Director and composer reviewed the entire film together. (Has there ever been anything comparable?) Their focus was largely, though not exclusively, on the scoring process. It came out of a long and harmonious collaboration that was already mature by the time of this, Egoyan's breakout film success. Fascinating stuff! Of particular interest was the creation of a low-frequency rhythm track for on-set use to coordinate the club dancers. It was dialed out when replaced by Danna's actual score. "Needle drops" for source and background score were Egoyan's choice. Danna went to India to develop ethnic instrumentation, spending most of the tiny music budget on his airfare. The independent film was made just as Egoyan wanted, without endless executive meddling and preview-induced revisions. That's something that both men regretted cannot happen today in an industry so fearful for its multimillion-dollar investment. Both men voiced considerable dismay over the now universal practice of temp tracking. The problem is not just the pressure to conform. If the picture has actually been edited to the rhythm of the temp track, there is no way for the actual composer to sense the latent form of the footage and give it his own connective tissue. Hence, the depressing conventional similarity of so much contemporary scoring. A separate feature is a 2022 conversation between Egoyan and Sarah Polley, who plays a small but important role in the film. Though she was only fourteen at the time of filming, this was her first experience with adult subject matter and marked the beginning of her interest in an acting career -- something she had found unsatisfying during her child star period. Director and actress had much to tell each other from the vantage point of nearly thirty years.
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I used to have the CD.
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Love this score and album- I accepted this CD as payment for some sound engineering work I did early on.
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