Any great films without music?
Jim Hannon -- Sat, 04/22/2006 - 15:32
Have there been any great films without music?
I can't think of any off-hand.
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The China Syndrome was a film that had no musical soundtrack until the closing credits...
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The Exorcist doesn't. Some sound effects, but really no music.
One thing film score cannot create is a sense of reality. So you often find films that are trying to create a very realistic feel to be without much music. Well, source music can find a place in a film that's trying to be real, but that's something a score can't do.
For example, last year's Japanese indepedent film, "Nobody Knows" has very little music. That's because it's a retelling of a real story, and the filmmaker chose to make the film as realistic and free of hype as possible.
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What about Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells?"
I know that was the theme song for the Exorcist but don't remember whether that carried on in the body of the movie.
There was indeed music in The Exorcist!
Some films that famously have no music: Zinnemann's The Day of the Jackal (save for the closing credits), Kubrick's Paths of Glory (once again save for the closing credits), Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (save for the final sequence where the dying Dix is racing home).
The Fritz Lang classic thriller M (1931) has no music at all, not even during the credits. It was his first sound film and starred Peter Lorre as a serial killer. It is available from Criterion.
Harrison S.
Any great movies without music? THE BIRDS directed by Hitchcock
There are lots of films without music if you don't count brief opening title and closing title themes, such as Fred Zinnemann's great 1973 thriller The Day of the Jackal.
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