My brother was watching the movie "Up" this afternoon, and while I was upstairs, I could still hear the sounds from the movie, including the various music from the different parts. I'm sure when most people watched the movie, they realized that through the course of the entire movie, the music for different portions of the movie- whether it was when Carl Fredricksen was first living happily with Ellie, or he was attempting to get to Paradise Falls with Russell- was often the same melody, but simply played in different keys. By writing the melody to different keys, I found that the composer was able to adapt the varying situations and set tones from melancholy sadness to joyful adventurous excitement with this same melody.
Here's a sample of one of his repetitive uses of the same melody:
credit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaLegF2hAxI
I love the music from Up.
ReplyDelete