Wednesday
26Nov2008
Score the 'Benjamin Button' Score Online
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 6:07PM
This is a pretty cool awards season feature: At the
official
BAFTA For Your Consideration site for Warner Bros., you can listen to
the entire original motion picture score for
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, composed
by Alexandre
Desplat.
Desplat is a wonderful composer, perhaps not as populist as some of the major names like Hans Zimmer and Thomas Newton Howard, but his music has been featured in everything from Syriana to Girl with the Pearl Earring. And though the movie isn't all that great, one of his best scores to date was in The Painted Veil, starring Edward Norton and Naomi Watts. He has one Oscar nomination to his credit, for The Queen, but given the high profile of Benjamin Button, Desplat might be in line for his second.
Of course, you do run the risk of not hearing the music in context if you see it without the visuals, but that's rather a silly argument if the music's really good. I haven't had a chance to absorb the entire score yet, but what I've heard (which I based on the titles of the tunes) I've really enjoyed.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button stars Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, and Tilda Swinton, and is directed by David Fincher. The film makes its way into heaters on December 25th.
Reader Comments (3)
This is a must see movie
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i`m glad they make it to the oscars.
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