Sunday, June 7, 2015

My favorites Scores: Batman The Dark Knight




 A masterpiece of film scoring, where the wit and genius of the masters Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard bring us back,( with director Christopher Nolan) the old and dark batman, the night judge that originally wrote Bob Kane several decades ago.



I have to say that the style of composition and orchestration of master Hans Zimmer is not my favorite, because I enjoy more the scores who keep closer relationship with the music of the romantic and post-romantic period of the late 19th century and first half of the century 20, in addition to other streams of composition from which film music has taken elements.


 

Hans Zimmer and Christopher Nolan

But this Score in my opinion is  a masterpiece of incidental music, the manner how the masters maintain a thread running through the entire film is amazing. The tension that draws the constant stalking of the Joker and the step ahead  that always seems to have  against batman binds us to the plot from beginning to the end. Using simple sounds like a double stops glissando for cello (with a ton of processes) and a bunch of percussive sounds maestros Zimmer and Newton Howard offers a great score on par with an excellent film.




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