MUSIC 2F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Orson Welles, Citizen Kane, Taxidermy
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Hollywood wanted to challenge television using subject matter. The man with the golden arm (1955: frank sinatra (plays the man with the golden arm, golden arm for 3 reasons: Makes his living making in the world of crime, works as a card dealer in high stakes, illegal poker games. Urban- club sound/ street sound of jazz linked to drug above, moral decaying: example of an attempt to cut a popular style as a lm score- e ective for the most part, but awkward at times. Pop music tends to establish a pulse, that pulse tends to keep going makes sense because it is designed for dancing. In a lm score, if you want to catch what is going on moment to moment, this becomes di cult sometimes it doesn"t work: phrasing the drama- then extreme hitting the action. He goes down to the bar, starts talking to one of his friends.
