…so i’m finally free!!!
well, to be honest, i don’t watch much tv anyway but now i have the chance to do something i wanted to try for quite some time now. i think music is much underrated when it comes to movies or even tv-shows. a horrorfilm without music (or actually any sound except the dialogues) just wouldn’t work. it wouldn’t be scary at all – just boring. check it out, watch the worst horrormovie you can think of and during the slaughter-scenes mute the sound… the same goes for love-and-embrace-scenes or just about anything else. music fills it with meaning and makes us feel something while we’re watching. a great soundtrack can even make up for a weak plot.
now don’t give me the: “in movie ‘x’ during scene ‘y’ there’s no sound at all, but it’s the best scene ever!” because that’s also part of the soundtrack. it’s about the choice – someone chose not to include any sound in the scene and silence can be the most powerful sound of all. any great musician will tell you that a pause is just as important (maybe even more) as every note played. for example i’m thinking about scenes in which suddenly the music stops to add suspense, the someone-broke-into-someone-elses-office-and-goes-through-the-files-just-before-he-got-hit-on-the-head-scenes.
so where was i……..right, the broken tv. i’m gonna watch a movie without the watch-part – just listening to it. i did this sometimes in bed just before dozing away but that’s not what i mean. i mean to really pay attention to the movie just without the seeing. watching a movie without sound simply sucks but if music is as important to the film as i believe, ‘listening’ a movie should be not that bad….and it’s better for the eyes as well….