RTA 180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Bernard Herrmann, Henry Mancini, Elia Kazan
16 Feb 2018
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Orson welles, touch of evil 1958 - ultimate film noir. B&w, low-key lighting // cynical protagonist, pessimism. Moral ambiguity, blatantly dance on the hays code: bad good guy, good bad guy. Orson welles: write screenplay, directed and starred (not producer) Want score to have 95% of source music. Outrageous scene, border town of america & mexico, vargas mexican detective vs crooked, corruptible captain quinlan american detective. Finance by universal studio (in house music department) Henry mancini (young gun): jazz era - current time & place, rising rock & roll. Jazz - a streetcar named desire - elia kazan // alex north (composer) Bernard herrmann: 3-4-5 notes as melodic/thematic cell - wrote film score. Thematically transform: rhythmically, invert, change timbre, instrumentation, bowed string // saccato. Hickok: use herrmann in 8 of his film. Hermann wrote 40 cues out of 46 minutes (10-3min in length) 1st mainstream horror" film, 5 academy award nominations, 0 win.
