It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.
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When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing.
You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.
When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.
It's always easy, I think, to raise the importance of a scene through the addition of music. But it's very awkward to end it unless there's a door slam or a gunshot or something that just takes you right out of it.
In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they'll just edit it out.
When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.
It was my first scene in any movie and my only scene in Kramer vs. Kramer. I was petrified.
I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out.
If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.
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