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Date Posted: 19:42:51 10/10/05 Mon
Author: Celebaelin
Subject: What is the sound of Serenity? (Spoilers)

Because of flakey access lately I've not read all the Serenity spoiler posts yet but from those I have read I don't think this has been mentioned so I'm going to run with it briefly.

Where's the music?

The TV adverts featured some pacey music quite prominently and whilst it wasn't exactly my taste (there not being enough in the way of rabid, too fast, too loud, too baroque electric guitar) I was looking forward to it and smelt something in the way of sountrack album possibilities. btw if anyone can tell me what that music was I'd be interested to know.

Instead I'm left with two impressions of the musical accompanyment.

1) A presumably wizzened and pipesmoking reject from a goldrush squeezing the last inch of life from a badly tuned Western-style fiddle.

and 2) Nothing.

And I have to say that Nothing is rather more interesting. I forget whether it's three or four times in the film when we are suddenly dropped off the cliff in terms of the sound from lots of noise (fight going on, spaceship taking off etc.) to complete silence. Generally I didn't object to this, if anything I thought it was a element of departure from the norm characteristic of Joss' approach, and its repetition fits the title after all but there's one case in particular when the approach had a noticably detremental affect as far as I was concerned.

When the crew are starting to explore Miranda and are unsure of what they will find you would usually have a musical mood piece playing to frame the characters mental state for the audience. In this instance it would be something to heighten the eerieness and tension but instead we're left with total silence and without 'inhabiting' the mind of one of the characters, and the sequence isn't really long enough (or perhaps exploited enough) for that, I found that the nervousness that the crew would be feeling was not communicated cw the Space Marines exploring the colonists base in Aliens for example or, say, close-ups of soldiers faces prior to a battle in any number of war films.

It's not that I particularly disliked this approach I hasten to add, before I'm deluged with hate-mail. In fact it's one of the reasons I want to see Serenity again; apart from generally having enjoyed the experience and wanting to catch those quicker lines that slipped by me, some of them were even in English I think. The thing is convention may be right here (and you won't hear me say THAT often) and the film might be better or even, heaven forfend, more successful with a bostin' soundtrack, or perhaps merely a clever one that's not so up-front but brings the audience up out of their seats and mentally places them on the screen.

Just a thought (ducks for cover behind large pile of CDs).

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