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Hollywood Prospectus Blog - Grantland: Much has been made of David Mitchell’s initial assessment that Cloud Atlas, his acclaimed time- and genre-hopping 2004 novel, was unfilmable. He could also have said, with equal confidence, that it was unrecordable.
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T. Sutter
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I have always been fascinated with the ability to compose music. Maybe because it is so far out of my thought process, but I have the utmost respect for people who can create music for moods. That being said, I am more the capable to recieve and interpret the musical underscores. To me, the score sometimes determines if the movie becomes one for the ages. For example, one can play for first few notes of Jaws or Harry Potter or E.T. and there is an immediate emotional reaction. Musical scores have place within cinema and theater that cannot be replaced by anything else. I have heard many things about Cloud Atlas, and it has always been about the visual aspect of the show and never about the sound effects. I am actually excited to hear the recording and see if it lives up to the hype given in this article.
Sounds really awesome. First never knew Cloud Atlas was a book, and this just showed one aspect of how hard it is to bring a book to life. I am not a big reader but when I do read the imagination is amazing how it takes the words of the book and mixes them with the images, music, and worlds that are within ones imagination. To be able to take words and composed them to a great piece of music is astounding to me. The ability to create and a drive to create is something that I love about us. I love this internal drive and I enjoyed reading about how hard/challenging for these composers to create the perfect sound. This movie is on my list of wan to see and cannot wait to watch even more now.
I haven't read this book, but it sounds like there is an important piece of music in the book that holds some meaningful symbolic something or other for the characters/plot. The piece of music, to my knowledge, does not exist in real life. When adapting the novel to the screen, they need to compose this music to use. This is a huge challenge, and, in my opinion, will hurt the imagination more than it will help the show. If something is described as, for example, the most beautiful piece of music in the world that will affect you in ways A and B, each reader of the novel will interpret that in a way that is most helpful to them and will allow them to be most impacted by the story. By making this an actual thing, we lose that, and, (remember, having not read the book) could potentially lose a very important piece of this work.
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I have always been fascinated with the ability to compose music. Maybe because it is so far out of my thought process, but I have the utmost respect for people who can create music for moods. That being said, I am more the capable to recieve and interpret the musical underscores. To me, the score sometimes determines if the movie becomes one for the ages. For example, one can play for first few notes of Jaws or Harry Potter or E.T. and there is an immediate emotional reaction. Musical scores have place within cinema and theater that cannot be replaced by anything else. I have heard many things about Cloud Atlas, and it has always been about the visual aspect of the show and never about the sound effects. I am actually excited to hear the recording and see if it lives up to the hype given in this article.
Sounds really awesome. First never knew Cloud Atlas was a book, and this just showed one aspect of how hard it is to bring a book to life. I am not a big reader but when I do read the imagination is amazing how it takes the words of the book and mixes them with the images, music, and worlds that are within ones imagination. To be able to take words and composed them to a great piece of music is astounding to me. The ability to create and a drive to create is something that I love about us. I love this internal drive and I enjoyed reading about how hard/challenging for these composers to create the perfect sound. This movie is on my list of wan to see and cannot wait to watch even more now.
I haven't read this book, but it sounds like there is an important piece of music in the book that holds some meaningful symbolic something or other for the characters/plot. The piece of music, to my knowledge, does not exist in real life. When adapting the novel to the screen, they need to compose this music to use.
This is a huge challenge, and, in my opinion, will hurt the imagination more than it will help the show. If something is described as, for example, the most beautiful piece of music in the world that will affect you in ways A and B, each reader of the novel will interpret that in a way that is most helpful to them and will allow them to be most impacted by the story. By making this an actual thing, we lose that, and, (remember, having not read the book) could potentially lose a very important piece of this work.
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