"Enya style" in TITANIC
Alexandre
Titanic is a TRAGEDY. And as it is a tragedy, there is a chorus. The chorus
in Titanic is nothing but this "Enya-style". But why choosing that
particular style then?
Well, Titanic is a modern tragedy: so the chorus itself had to be modern.
The "Enya-style" was thus perfect to underline the MODERNITY of the movie
enabling today's audience to feel more at ease because it sounds familiar:
it reminds them of their own time. So, this style links 1912 and today very
very well. One can feel closer to the characters and story because of that.
It can also be said that the "Enya-style" is ONIRICAL, it is very dreamlike
in a way. Now, Cameron's Titanic is clearly an onirical movie and the theme
of the dream is tackled throughout the film. When we first see "the ship of
dreams", we can indeed hear a dreamlike music ("Southampton" track).
Anyway, it goes even further than all that: Titanic is more than a "modern"
film, it is a TIMELESS movie:
"Horner has walked the tightrope by using synthesizer, vocals and full
orchestra to create a timeless sound which tells us that these people were
not so very different from us. " (James Cameron)
Titanic is a film dealing with the notion of time obviously. For instance,
one can say that the portrait scene is a kind of "abolition of time". The
portrait is found again more than 80 years after the tragedy, the portrait
"survived" (art and love are eternal; both notions cannot be annihilated by
time). To underline that idea, Cameron uses the present sound of a clock at
the beginning of this scene, but then one can hear Horner's music
"replacing the sound of time".
The music in Titanic is always there to "break" the idea of time, it is
always used in moments where time is important, such as the transitions
between past and present, or at the beginning of the film when the barman
shows a clock to Jack and Fabrizio telling them that they'll miss the ship.
Dozens of other examples can be found.
Horner's score for Titanic had to be as "timeless" as possible. His score
is not a sort of melting-pot of different Ages of music for nothing. Using
a theme à la Enya in Titanic was really compelling.
Alexandre.
w...@ameritech.net
VERY WELL SAID ALEXANDRE!!!!!!!!!!!
Gary Pollard
Only if one does not understand the concept of "chorus" as used in Greek
Tragedy.
Gary
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>VERY WELL SAID ALEXANDRE!!!!!!!!!!!
Robert Chapman
In article <01bd2e41$9bee9ca0$6890fcc1@phzgpcbd>, "Alexandre"
<C...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
Or maybe it doesn't really matter what reasoning you have for choosing a
style, it's simply whether the music is good or not. If the music
perfectly fits the mood, why do you have to prove for e.g. that the pipes
are Irish and the ship was built in Ireland before you accept that they
should have been allowed to be used?
Rob