Saturday 8 May 2010

Background movie: Romeo + Juliet (1996)

Was in the mood for something 'cool', dramatic, well done, and loaded with emotion and meaning.
Had this on whilst cooking and cleaning.

Recall this beating Titanic for Movie Soundtrack at the Oscars way back when!...
(I have to double check this).
And deservedly so.

The sheer originality and diversity of the music is far superior to the rather disarming and incongruent prevalence of electronic-sounds-passing-for-orchestra in Titanic. The latter felt like it was lost between a John Williams-esque dramaticism, and a complete Hans Zimmer score.


NB:
Actually, it was BAFTA not OSCAR in 1997!

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