Re: GG:GG music in movies

[Xavier Otazu <xavier@fajnm1.am.ub.es>]

> G'day f-minorers !
> Last night I had an interesting conversation with the only other GG
> afficionado I know in real life at the local pub.
> 
> He believes that an excerpt from GG's "Well-Tempered Clavier" was used
> in the movie "Silence of the Lambs" (in a scene that will definitely
> ruin your appetite.....). I don't think this is the case and bet him a
> sixpack.

 I think it's GG version, but not from WTC but from Goldberg variations.

> It has just occurred to me that a good amount of classical music has ben
> used in rather "violent" movies (Slaughterhouse 5, Apocalypse Now,
> Clockwork Orange, Natural Born Killers etc)wich is quite a contrast.
> Pure provocation or a rather strange way to illustrate the absurdity of
> the violence on screen ?

 Sometimes I think that film directors has no many musical taste,
 because there is no reason between some violent scenes and classical
 music. I am not saying it's not ok, because some classical music works
 has some kind of "underground anxiety" but, for example, what violence
 has Goldberg variations with "Silence of Lambs"???!!!! It were composed
 to sleeping !!!
 
 I think film directors want to be genial and they are simply stupid, in
 the majority of cases.

 This is my opinion, I don't want to displease any films director
 reading this list.


		
			Xavier
		
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Xavier Otazu-Porter

Departament d'Astronomia i Meteorologia
Facultat de Fisica
Universitat de Barcelona
Avgda. Diagonal 647
08028 Barcelona
SPAIN


xavier@fajnm1.am.ub.es
http://www.am.ub.es/~jorge/xavier/xavier.html

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