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Collateral (2004) Michael Mann on using music to reveal character. "As research, music enters early for me. If you can find that piece of music which evokes the central emotion of one of your characters, some pivotal crisis where he or she must rouse themselves from despair and manifest...

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Bernard Herrmann on the importance of music in movies: "Interviewer: You once said that music is called upon to supplement what the technicians have done, and mostly what they have been unable to do. Herrmann: The real reason for music is that a piece of film, by its nature, lacks a certain ability to convey emotional overtones. Many times in many films, dialogue may not give a clue to the feelings of a character. It’s the music or the lighting or camera movement. When a film is well made, the music’s function is to fuse a piece of film so that it has an inevitable beginning and end. When you cut a piece of film you can do it perhaps a dozen ways, but once you put music to it, that becomes the absolutely final way. Until recently, it was never considered a virtue for an audience to be aware of the cunning of the camera and the art of making seamless cuts. It was like a wonderful piece of tailoring; you didn’t see the stitches. But today all that has changed, and any mechanical or technical failure or ineptitude is considered ‘with it’. Music essentially provides an unconscious series of anchors for the viewer. It isn’t always apparent and you don’t have to know, but it serves its function. I think Cocteau said that a good film score should create the feeling that one is not aware whether the music is making the film go forward or whether the film is pushing the music forward. Interviewer: Is the composer, in a sense, an actor with a greater range of ‘voices off’? Herrmann: I always think that film music expresses what the actor can’t show or tell. For example, when Janet Leigh is driving her car in 'Psycho' (1960), all we see is a pleasant young girl driving in the rain with the windscreen wipers going back and forth. From what you see, she might have been going to the supermarket or visiting a friend, but it’s the music that tells you that she has embarked on a very dangerous, horrifying experience. In the very opening of 'Citizen Kane' (1941), the music really tells you what ‘Rosebud’ is. When Kane is dying, all the musical motifs and atmospheres of his childhood are presented and the search for ‘Rosebud’ has really been told to the audience right away. At the end of the film, before the camera discovers the sled, the theme is given out again. And of course it also recurs at key moments of conversation between Kane and all the leading characters." (Bernard Herrmann's interview with Ted Gilling, Sight and Sound, 1971) P.S: Remembering the legendary American composer Bernard Herrmann on his 115th birthday!

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