theJDman State of Mind

Music sets the mood, Sometimes not the 1 you think of...

I'll be quick here, but I've noticed a trend were music meant for 1 mood is used for another. I'll list a couple examples and I have a video to show what I'm talking about.

1)The X-Files used a song called Wonderful, Wonderful by Johnny Mathis during a scene where these 3 inbred guys attack and kill the town sheriff and his wife in their home, the episode was named Home.

2)This last year Lost used a song by Moma Cass called Make your own kind of music in the season opener where Jack enters the hatch and all of a sudden this song comes up out of nowhere and he finds John(fellow crash survivor) with a gun to John's head by somebody he doesn't know.

3)The season finale of Nip/Tuck's 2nd season has a attacker called the Carver(who attacks and deforming his victims) that threatened to kill Sean if he repaired any of his victims. Sean went ahead and did anyway and the season ends with him and his partner preparing for the worst. Sean waits for the Carver with a gun ready to kill the Carver. The song here is a love song by Art Garfunkel called All I Know. The rest is in the video below.


Nip/Tuck example


That full scene is really intense, I only had a short clip to show what I was talking about. I think in some cases(like those listed above) that practice helps the show create a memory that goes beyond just a memorable scene. In a way it really ups the creep-out factor(at least in that clip) and it's really effective if you've never heard the song before; If you hear the song(from then on) on it's own the context of the song changes for you and takes you back to the scene. But if this becomes the new Hollywood thing it will loose it's impact and not stick out as much, just like every idea they run into the ground.

theJDman

posted by theJDman @ 9:12 PM