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It's impossible to even imagine There Will Be Blood without Greenwood's music, just as it's impossible to imagine Bullet or Lawrence of Arabia or Jaws without their scores. Greenwood's super rhythmics, super staccato conveys not just the awesome scale of the southern Californian desert in the movie, but it's surely the very sound of the psychosis and determination of Daniel Plainview, as played by Daniel Day-Lewis, the prospector who finds oil, but gradually loses his friends and his mind. In fact, the movie itself was inspired in part by an earlier composition of Greenwood's Popcorn Het Receiver. When I met Jonny Greenwood in Abbey Road Studios last month, he explained how this piece of music, which was originally commissioned by Radio 3, came to be used by Paul Thomas Anderson for the film's opening 12 minutes of just music and action.
"The first contact I got from him was that he'd heard a fan's bootleg recording of this piece I wrote for the BBC Concert Orchestra. It was so exciting because until then, it'd just been utterly abstract, really, it was based on car journeys when I was a kid. And you'd listen to a song on a cassette over and over again until everyone was sick of it and then they turned it off and you just hear the engine. And I used to pretend I could still hear the music. And if you did that hard enough, you could eventually hear the whole song as I was playing in the most of the noise." | 
发表于 2016-8-15 20:40:08