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Citizen Kane Strikes Back
(and what Scorsese did to Bach)
One Saturday night, I went with my sister to the movies, to Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator".
The movie was nominated for 11 Oscars, so I was curious what it was all about.
First of all, it isn't a movie to start watching at 12:45 am. Why?
A. Who starts watching a movie at 12:45 am?
B. It's a 3 hour movie.
C. It's a complicated movie you should concentrate in.
Would I say I liked it? I don't know. I would say it was an interesting movie,
if I hadn't seen a few weeks before that "Citizen Kane" –
a movie about the life story of a publishing tycoon from the early 20th century.
"The Aviator" tells a similar story about a different character.
As a film music fan and a formerly student of film music composition,
I am always interested in music in movies. In one of the main scenes in "The Aviator",
the hero is flying an airplane and crashing. In the soundtrack,
the music playing is Johann Sebastian Bach's famous "Tocata & Fuga".
The scene was somewhat spine-tingling.
But why did it have to use Bach's Tocata & Fuga?
Couldn't the movie's composer compose something by himself?
Until then, the great Tocata & Fuga was for me a completely abstract composition, but since,
it always reminds me of the plane crashing. Why do I deserve this? Why does Bach deserve this?
February 23th, 2009.
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