smottie Wrote:Maybe anyone can contribute with other examples of films without or almost without music?
When having a conversation on musical moments in movies, it must involve Lalo Schifrin for his jazzy and atmospheric, escalating car chase-score in Bullitt.
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Funnily enough, Schifrin's music stops when the actual car chase begins proper. There's tension-building music as McQueen's Mustang begins to follow the villains' Dodge Charger.....but then when the driving really starts, the music stops. That was actually McQueen's idea and it's a testimony to the power of Schifrin's music that people remember music throughout ALL of the action between the two cars.
Film scoring is as much about deciding where NOT to have music as where to have it. For example, in All The President's Men, david Shire's score doesn't begin until 20-odd minutes into the film. Certainly, the director and composer may decide to have little or no music (except for the Main and End Titles, perhaps).
In the early days of sound pictures, studios became over-enthusiastic about the use of music and a lot of those films are practically wall-to-wall musical soundscapes. The best example of constant music are the Looney-Tunes and Warner Brothers cartoons.
There was music in it, but in Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick insisted on using contemporary period pieces.