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The Artist
Jan. 21st, 2012 03:02 pmI got to the theater too late to see The Enchanted Island. So I opted for The Artist, which was pleasant enough.
But when the climatic love scene came, I was startled to hear:
The iconic love theme from Vertigo. I'm hardly a film music buff, but I would have recognized this anywhere. They played a good five minutes or more of Bernard Hermann's score. All I could see was Kim Novack & Jimmy Stewart locked in painful yearning.
And then two minutes after that some big band piece from Duke Ellington, which seemed only slightly less out of place.
I don't understand why? The film score was perfectly suited to the film, and not without its own charm. The appropriation of the Vertigo music actually spoiled the movie for me.
But when the climatic love scene came, I was startled to hear:
The iconic love theme from Vertigo. I'm hardly a film music buff, but I would have recognized this anywhere. They played a good five minutes or more of Bernard Hermann's score. All I could see was Kim Novack & Jimmy Stewart locked in painful yearning.
And then two minutes after that some big band piece from Duke Ellington, which seemed only slightly less out of place.
I don't understand why? The film score was perfectly suited to the film, and not without its own charm. The appropriation of the Vertigo music actually spoiled the movie for me.
