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Road movies often use the music from the car stereo, which the characters are listening to, as the soundtrack [10] and in 1960s and 1970s road movies, rock music is often used (e.g., Easy Rider from 1969 used a rock soundtrack [11] of songs from Jimi Hendrix, The Byrds and Steppenwolf ).
Another of the genre's signature means of enhancing the cinematic sensation of driving is an exuberant music track—usually rock and roll, with its back beat propelling the journey. The road movie also reflects upon technology, depicting an ambivalent modernist fusion between (human) driver and (machine) vehicle.
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- Simple Suspense. When it comes to suspense, composer John Williams set the standard with just three notes in his “Main Title” for Jaws. He described the theme as “grinding away at you, just as a shark would do.
- Imitating Farce. When silent comedy films were made, a live musician or band would accompany the film, playing music that would mimic the sound of someone making a funny action.
- That Screech. Bernard Hermann created many great soundtracks with Alfred Hitchcock, but none were more visceral than what he did for the murder scene in Psycho.
- Exploratory Chances. There are few soundtracks that feel as quintessential to a genre as the collection of classical music that accompanied 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- Raging Bull - Intermezzo from Cavelleria Rusticana (Pietro Mascagni) The juxtaposition of the physical drudgery and tragedy of Robert De Niro’s portrayal of boxer Jake LaMotta, balanced against the supremely romantic and indulgent nagging of Mascagni’s ‘Intermezzo’, has to be one of the greatest in cinema history.
- There Will Be Blood - Violin Concerto in D major (Johannes Brahms) The climax of There Will Be Blood has to be up there as one of the most unexpectedly perfect uses of classical music in a movie.
- The Man Who Wasn’t There - Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, ‘Pathetique’ (Ludwig Van Beethoven. The Coen Brothers’ queasy masterpiece features the slow movement of Beethoven’s ‘Pathetique’ throughout, peppered across the story as the quiet life of barber Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton) gradually gets turned completely upside down.
- Apocalypse Now - Flight Of The Valkyries (Richard Wagner) You can really measure the impact of Francis Ford Coppola’s movie by closing your eyes and listening to Wagner’s ‘Flight Of The Valkyries’ – chances are, rather than visualising a full stage production of The Ring Cycle, you’re picturing a swarm of helicopters blowing up the Vietnamese jungle.
Apr 12, 2024 · A short definition for the road film genre. A subgenre of the travel film, with a fictional narrative governed by movement, usually via car/road. The road movie tends to display a certain metaphysical or existential bent, via themes of rebellion, escape, discovery, and transformation, and is typified by an attenuated or picaresque narrative.
The Jewel Thieves Outwitted. 1926. Mit dem Motorrad über die Wolken [A Motorcycle Trip Among the Clouds] 1928. Два друга, модель и подруга [Three Friends and an Invention] 1933. Wild Boys of the Road. 1934. Six of a Kind.
Dec 14, 2020 · Whimsy and Safety. What type of music has been immortalized in the concrete of the world’s musical roads? The choices range from classical (“The William Tell Overture” in Lancaster), to childhood favorites (“Mary Had a Little Lamb” in South Korea, “Happy Birthday to You” in Indonesia), to nationalistic (“America the Beautiful” in New Mexico, the Friesland provincial anthem in ...
