An introduction to Project Crazypants

[bratfarrar]

I have a theory about movie music: it should be another aspect of world-building. Just as you build sets and pick out costumes and do all the rest in order to create the illusion of a world that doesn't actually exist (in the movies, not even real-world places are real, if only because they're framed by the camera; by choosing my shots carefully, I

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[lindahoyland]

An interesting idea.

[bratfarrar]

It's something I play with when I'm working with my hands but not my head--or whenever I listen to Tolkien-inspired music (which I'm slowly collecting). I drove myself a little crazy one day by listening to the soundtrack from The Two Towers on repeat, and that was really the cincher.

There will be more of these--like I said, I typed up all the songs from the books, and I want to talk about those, and whether or not they could fit into a film adaptation; I also want to evaluate all that Tolkien-inspired music, because some of it fits into the world of the books pretty well, and some of it's doing different things entirely.

[lindahoyland]

Tolkien's songs are lovely. Did you ever hear the BBC Radio play? I loved their version of "Seek for the sword which was broken". I know that's not strictly a song but it was truly haunting.

[bratfarrar]

I haven't, although I've read good things about it. And thanks to the power of Youtube, I'm now listening to "Seek for the sword...", which is indeed haunting.

[timespirt]

This is very nice.

[bratfarrar]

Isn't it though? I was surprised to see how many high-quality recordings there are on Youtube of similar style music. It's a bit encouraging, actually: pop music is obviously not killing everything off.

[timespirt]

Because I have a liking to almost all music out there I can appreciate many different types.