Clint Mansell's soundtrack (with the Kronos Quartet) for the Darren Aronofsky film Requiem For A Dream is a very potent, intense and frightening work, and also quite beautiful at times. It's achieved a cult status which may at this point surpass the film itself, most likely because of the track Lux Aeterna, which has been coopted by more movie trailers that I can recall... but that's why there's wikipedia. You've no doubt heard it, recently even, on the Telus advert currently showing before most films or shortly afterwards in this trailer:
Babylon A.D.
Yes, of course it sounds familiar. Remember the trailer to such small little films like 300, I Am Legend, or Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers?
Of course, reusing music isn't anything new, I think it's just the rather excessive use of Mansell's wonderful composition that surprises me.
Stranger though is the repurposing of the theme from fanboy favourite The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. (written by Randy Edelman) by NBC for their Olympics broadcast (apparently they've been using it for various sporting events as far back as their 1996 MLB All-Star Game coverage).
Babylon A.D.
Yes, of course it sounds familiar. Remember the trailer to such small little films like 300, I Am Legend, or Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers?
Of course, reusing music isn't anything new, I think it's just the rather excessive use of Mansell's wonderful composition that surprises me.
Stranger though is the repurposing of the theme from fanboy favourite The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. (written by Randy Edelman) by NBC for their Olympics broadcast (apparently they've been using it for various sporting events as far back as their 1996 MLB All-Star Game coverage).