{"id":91,"date":"2007-05-29T19:01:24","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T02:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/?p=91"},"modified":"2007-07-29T19:28:19","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T02:28:19","slug":"alex-rosss-film-score-top-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Alex Ross&#8217;s &#8220;Film score top 10&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therestisnoise.com\/2007\/05\/film_score_top_.html\">Alex Ross is right when he says it&#8217;s hard to think of a great Hollywood film score written for a comedy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bernard Herrmann did the score for Hitchcock&#8217;s <i>The Trouble with Harry<\/i>, which is definitely a comedy.  I watched the movie on TV in Madison, Wisconsin one afternoon when I was going to school there, but I don&#8217;t remember much about the score.  All I remember is that the movie was quite funny and Shirley MacLaine was quite young and attractive in it.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, <i>The Simpsons<\/i> isn&#8217;t a movie, but the music by Alf Clausen (and the theme by Danny Elfman) is quite good.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never seen <i>Airplane!<\/i>, but, if the music by Elmer Bernstein is one-eighth as good as his score for <i>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/i>, then it&#8217;s quite good.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings up the question: Could a brilliant score for a total screwball comedy ever really be accepted as being brilliant?  As brilliant as the score to <i>Vertigo<\/i> or <i>Psycho<\/i> is considered to be?  A lot of comedic film scores really only show their brilliance when listened to in conjunction with the film.  A good example of this is the hard-sync scores for <i>Who Framed Roger Rabbit<\/i> (by Alan Silvestri) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2092021\/\">Carl Stalling&#8217;s brilliant work on the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes shorts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Ross is right when he says it&#8217;s hard to think of a great Hollywood film score written for a comedy. Bernard Herrmann did the score for Hitchcock&#8217;s The Trouble with Harry, which is definitely a comedy. I watched the movie on TV in Madison, Wisconsin one afternoon when I was going to school there, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}