Composer Hans Zimmer's ultra-slow manipulation of an Edith Piaf song displays the beauty in bringing the Bpm right down
The malevolent, booming horns that sound throughout Inception are one of the film's finest features. Their power lies not just in volume and repetition, but also in rebuilding part of the film's architecture, just as Ellen Page and Leonardo DiCaprio's characters rebuild the architecture in their dreams.
Without giving away the plot, Edith Piaf's Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien plays a crucial role in linking Inception's real and dream worlds. Now it's emerged that Hans Zimmer, who composed the music, extrapolated his entire score from the Piaf song. In keeping with the atmosphere of blurred consciousness, Zimmer slows down the brass sounds to a somnambulant trudge.
What was once human, defiant and romantic is now lurching, formidable and unstable. Zimmer does something that numerous artists have also...
The malevolent, booming horns that sound throughout Inception are one of the film's finest features. Their power lies not just in volume and repetition, but also in rebuilding part of the film's architecture, just as Ellen Page and Leonardo DiCaprio's characters rebuild the architecture in their dreams.
Without giving away the plot, Edith Piaf's Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien plays a crucial role in linking Inception's real and dream worlds. Now it's emerged that Hans Zimmer, who composed the music, extrapolated his entire score from the Piaf song. In keeping with the atmosphere of blurred consciousness, Zimmer slows down the brass sounds to a somnambulant trudge.
What was once human, defiant and romantic is now lurching, formidable and unstable. Zimmer does something that numerous artists have also...
- 7/30/2010
- by Ben Beaumont-Thomas
- The Guardian - Film News
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