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Aug 23, 2023 · Desplat’s palette expanded again with the Herrmann-esque music for Ben Affleck’s thriller Argo, which required dramatic and atmospheric menace.
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Dec 3, 2015 · With two new films that he composed the music for out in recent weeks, we asked Desplat to share stories behind five of his most well-known scores.
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Desplat began playing the piano at the age of five. He later picked up the trumpet, before switching to flute at nine. Desplat's musical interests were wide, ranging from French composers such as Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, to jazz and world music.
Aug 23, 2021 · Desplat used the film’s setting to inform his orchestration, utilising Gregorian chant, balalaikas, and the cimbalom, a hammered dulcimer heard in folk music in Hungary and Austria. In doing so, Desplat’s score absorbs the audience into the world Anderson has created.
Dec 15, 2015 · Alexandre Desplat’s subtle and melodic score for Focus Features’ “The Danish Girl” sounds effortless, but it was just the opposite. In the Tom Hooper-directed film, Eddie Redmayne stars as ...
The two melodies, one titled "Elisa's Theme", are heard at the beginning of the film and later merge into a single piece of music by the end of it. To emphasize this effect and its final result, Desplat changed the sounds of the accompanying flutes, accordions, and whistles to "something blurred".
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Here we recommend his essential film scores. 1. A master of movie music. Born in 1961, Desplat dreamed of becoming a film composer from an early age and scored his first film at 25. He has since risen to Hollywood's A-list with scores for numerous hits, including his Oscar-winning 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' and ''The King's Speech' - for which ...
